A victory in Mali will allow France to achieve political penance for “francafrique” while simultaneously obtaining renewed power on the international stage.
Pakistan’s reaction toward its Olympic field hockey team’s performance reflects its inferiority complex and the power relations of Pakistan with former colonial and western powers.
Despite recent revelations by Edward Snowden, the program of mass surveillance by the NSA and its affiliates is new only in its scale and technical characteristics, not in its intent.
The European model could be very useful for Northeast Asian countries as they start to draw up a road map for multilateral cooperation and regional integration.
In a proposed global context of Western hegemony Bobby Sayyid argues that Islamism falls outside the orbit of the West and represents the only available counter-hegemonic discourse to it.
Habermas argues that the nature of dialogue can yield positive change, but can his theory apply to conversations in international organizations?
There are costs to drones, huge costs that make anything other than their extremely rare use short-sighted. We can only hope that Obama has not learned this lesson too late.
Nixon’s visionary pursuit of a China that was a responsible member of the world community bore undeniable fruit in 1972 and would continue to benefit the United States until this very day.
The US does not have a fixed definition of rationality. Instead, each ruling governmental cabinet tends to have a different political stance when it comes to determining rationality and irrationality.
Both the Soviet Union and the United States played an important role in facilitating the rise of radical Islamism during their Cold War rivalry.
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