While there is a strong element of a proxy war behind the fighting in Syria, the forces and interests involved are best understood in terms of inter-state relations going back more than a decade.
An examination of Great Britain’s acceptance into the European Economic Community in 1973 rekindles the agent-structure conversation in international relations.
Financial institutions increasingly view migrant workers as generators of international capital flows, demonstrating the dominance of neoliberalism within development discourse.
It remains to be seen whether the end of the war on terror will impact conceptions of public diplomacy’s role as a central tool in the battle for ideas or as an essential part of diplomacy.
Almost 30 years ago the US, supported by several countries in the Caribbean, controversially invaded Grenada ending its imported, and largely unloved, Marxist-Leninist political model.
What is the place of the sacred and secular in aid work? Barnett and Gross Stein’s edited collection explores the tensions of secularization and sanctification in modern humanitarianism.
Prime Minister Erdoğan is not in imminent danger of losing power, but the protests and his response to them could be consequential for Turkey’s democracy and its role in international relations.
NGOs have often served as a bridge between the EU personnel and the local communities, especially in countries with low levels of trust in public authorities.
Syria’s civil war has entered a new phase, which is likely to be more explosive than the ones that preceded it. These trends in the uprising have much to contribute to current scholarship on civil war.
Ali Alfoneh’s analysis of Iran’s political sphere offers a comprehensive and systematic study of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pivotal role the powerful group may play in the state’s nuclear future.
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