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Does it Matter if Autocracies Can Generate Audience Costs?
‘Audience costs’ can provide democracies with more credibility when making threats on the international stage. The situation is different, however, for autocracies and does not always matter as a means of signalling credibility.
An Evaluation of Neoconservative Foreign Policy
Neoconservative foreign policy has a solid core of reasonable assumptions, but America’s attempts to put the neoconservative agenda into practice came at an enormous human and political cost.
A Postcolonial Perspective on Immigration Regimes and International Order
This paper aims to disrupt this neat division of internal and external relations, and offer a much more complex view of the contemporary world order.
A Rousseauian Look at European Integration
One of the many issues Rousseau covered was the idea of international cooperation or even integration, and its suitability to some of the states of Europe.
Can International Law Lead to a Fundamental Transformation of Politics?
Realists maintain that international law cannot radically alter the behaviour of states; it cannot satisfy the unyielding thirst for power. This paper will begin by examining the realist view of neutrality in international law, after which it will provide two alternative viewpoints.
Violently Repressive Authoritarian Regimes and Legitimacy
Any government, even a violently repressive authoritarian one, can be legitimate given that its people believe it to be so.
Linda Weiss and the Myth of the Powerless State
Linda Weiss’ seminal work, The Myth of the Powerless State countervails the arguments emanating from Westphalia scholars who contend that the power of the state is in decline
Realism, Liberalism and the Possibilities of Peace
Theories of peace and war have been central to cognitive exercises considering human nature and its applications, and are as relevant today as they ever have been when considering the actions of nation-states.
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