Articles

Noam Chomsky’s Views on Russian Foreign Policy: A Critical Analysis

Artem Patalakh • Apr 30 2020 • Articles

What sets Chomsky apart from many other fellow travelers of the Kremlin is that he tends to use references to IR scholars and occasionally insert critical remarks about Putin.

Opinion – How Coronavirus Exposes Unequal Access to Education in America

Tanishka Talagadadeevi • Apr 30 2020 • Articles

What do you get when you cross coronavirus and unequal access to WiFi? A perfect example of how the US education system fails to satisfy the right to equal education.

Opinion – Why COVID-19 Will Not Be ‘Good’ for the Environment

Andrew Heffernan • Apr 30 2020 • Articles

Covid-19 presents an opportunity to ask difficult questions, make tough decisions and to rebuild the global economy in a more sustainable manner.

Opinion – The Defense Production Act, COVID-19 and Critical Minerals

Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian • Apr 30 2020 • Articles

Without clear policy to give the mining industry a comprehensive understanding of America’s material needs, it is unlikely that the United States will be able to achieve mineral security.

Examining the Response of Urban Trees in Canada to Variations in Climate

Isabella Boushey • Apr 29 2020 • Articles

Dendrochronology can tell us about changes in climate over time and help us develop future projections of environmental responses to climate.

Opinion – Is Standing by the Minsk II Agreement Worth It?

Katherine Brown • Apr 28 2020 • Articles

European signatories of the Minsk II Agreement should abandon the deal and go back to the negotiating tables in order to prevent the possibility of civil war in Ukraine.

Opinion – Is the Coronavirus War Narrative Helping Pakistan?

Saeed Ahmed Rid • Apr 28 2020 • Articles

Rather than using the war-narrative, there is evidence that people may accept difficult steps if they are coupled with a more humane and sympathetic narrative.

NGOs on Coronavirus Mode: The Risks of ‘Business as Usual’

Daniel A. Díaz • Apr 27 2020 • Articles

The challengefor NGOs is to gain in reflexivity through an exercise of active observation and assessment, to generate situational responses that need to be constantly assessed.

What International Relations Tells Us about COVID-19

Joshua Busby • Apr 26 2020 • Articles

A Trump re-election loss will not remove structural barriers to collaboration, but it might delegitimate some of the zero-sum thinking that proliferated during his time.

Opinion – Lessons America’s Adversaries Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic  

Dan G. Cox • Apr 26 2020 • Articles

If we fail to examine scenarios of pandemics worse than Covid-19, we will suffer similar results and western democracies may find it hard to recover from such events.

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