Articles

Cracking the ‘So What’ Code by Facing Anxiety in Research

Linus Hagström and Karl Gustafsson • Oct 17 2023 • Articles

Graduate students and researchers should accept anxiety as a companion that can foster creativity, rather than viewing it as an obstacle to be avoided at all costs.

Opinion – Cambodia’s Personalist Dictatorship

Martin Duffy • Oct 17 2023 • Articles

The recent election is further evidence of the death of Cambodian democracy and regime transition under Hun Manet.

Opinion – A New Balance in Sino-US Relations?

He Xiaheng Derek • Oct 16 2023 • Articles

The new balance is, and will remain, about managing confrontations and reducing misperceptions that could lead things out of control.

Opinion – Khalistan’s Impact on India-Canada Relations

Anjali Singh • Oct 15 2023 • Articles

It is critical for both India and Canada to resolve the tensions over Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing through diplomatic means and productive dialogue.

A Tale of Two Attitudes Toward Leftist Governments in Latin America

Shauna N. Gillooly and Sofia-Alexa Porres • Oct 12 2023 • Articles

Progressive governments in the region will likely not threaten U.S. interests, but poor policies on the part of the U.S. toward their neighbors may do just that.

Visual Culture and Outer Space Futures

James Lowder • Oct 10 2023 • Articles

There is a growing awareness of humanity’s precarious place in the universe and an emergent sense that the heavens cannot be conquered.

Opinion – The US Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons

Sveta Yefimenko • Oct 10 2023 • Articles

While modernizing the US nuclear arsenal is a necessity, adding more nuclear weapons to the US stockpile is a costly and unnecessary endeavour.

Opinion – Narges Mohammadi’s Nobel Peace Prize and Iran’s Historic Clash

Soheil Ashrafi • Oct 6 2023 • Articles

Khamenei is legitimised as a clerical leader only in an Islamic society where women are instrumentalised to continuously bestow legitimacy on his rule.

Guanxi Culture’s Role in China’s Great Power Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Ye Xue • Oct 6 2023 • Articles

China, as a non-Western great power, is bringing its own cultural values and practices into an increasingly multicultural international order.

Interpreting Politico-Strategic Motivations for Chinese Military Exercises

Narantsatsral Enkhbat • Oct 5 2023 • Articles

China uses joint exercises to reassure Russia, while at the same time intimidating its regional opponents in times of rising tensions over Taiwan.

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