Devolution represents the most important change that the Westminster model has ever experienced. It has affected its politics in unintended ways, challenging the UK’s territorial and political integrity.
With increasing globalization, the spread of ideas is limitless and states’ borders become porous, which therefore permits radical ideas and beliefs to infiltrate other countries.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization operates in a diametrically different cultural and normative setting to Western International Organizations and must be seen within this context.
The centuries-old mercenary profession lives on in the modern era, and the current use of private military contractors, while at unprecedented levels, does not signify a new type of war.
China’s water policies will increase regional and international tensions, but will also prevent China’s economy from stalling, which could destabilize the entire international system.
The violence in Beslan was more complex than a purely religion-based attack by Islamic extremists: it was also rooted in the Russian-Chechen wars and dramatic recollections of them.
The guiding principles of Chinese foreign policy are no hegemony, no power politics, no military alliances and no arms racing. This is a significant move away from traditional realist politics.
Events in northern Africa have helped to enhance ‘Human Security’ as a subject of scholarly research and for legitimate consideration in the realm of International Relations.
The role of children in armed conflict has not fundamentally changed since the end of the Cold War, but the international community’s legal and sociological perception of it has evolved.
The West’s democracy promotion has achieved an outcome antithetical to its purpose: an increase in the violence of and destabilization within low-income and conflict-affected states.
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