Foreign Policy

The Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative during the Cold War

Ramin Karbasi • Jul 7 2015 • Essays

The decision to pursue the protracted, costly, and dubious SDI, the technology for which was not fully understood by US leadership, was ineffective and ultimately unwise.

On the Possibility of Nuclear Disarmament

Sam Ling Gibson • Jul 7 2015 • Essays

While nuclear disarmament is a technical possibility, the deterrence logic behind such weapons makes their relinquishment a near impossibility.

Ukraine Conflict: The Final Push For Peace

Peter J. Marzalik • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

The Minsk Protocols have gradually paved the road toward peace, but serious problems remain both in the formulation and implementation of the agreement.

Why Doesn’t Iran Want the Bomb?

Torgeir Pande Braathen • Jun 17 2015 • Essays

When adding up the potential benefits and impediments, Iran will unlikely upgrade its current civilian nuclear programme to a military nuclear weapons programme.

Current Space Law Limitations and Its Implications on Outer Space Conflicts

Michael Beaver • Jun 16 2015 • Essays

This is an exciting time for the entirety of human civilization, it is important for all parties in the planning of the forthcoming human expansion into outer space.

What Accounts for the Sino-Russian Alliance?

Matt Finucane • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Sino–Russian relations are better today than at any point throughout their troubled history, due to the structure of the inter-state system and domestic factors.

Providing Security? Border Control and the Politics of Migration in the EU

Yasemin Oezel • Jun 8 2015 • Essays

Depicting how certain assumptions are constructed, constructivism is useful to unveil that the security threat of migration is socially produced.

International Negotiations: Atomic Energy and Iran

Alina Ptok • Jun 5 2015 • Essays

It is possible that nuclear negotiations with Iran will continue to prove fruitless and will continue on for an indefinite time.

Australian, British, and US Approaches to Countering Islamic Extremists

Mark Taylor • Jun 4 2015 • Essays

By comparing and analysing the counter-radicalisation strategies of the three countries, disparate approaches are revealed that all contain some degree of effectiveness.

How Understanding Emotions in IR Can Help Explain Anti-Americanism

Kahlia Vandyk • Jun 2 2015 • Essays

Negative attitudes towards the United States are generally specific to foreign policy choices rather than a broader statement about American culture or society.

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