Articles

A Rationale for Pluralism: The Rural, Remote Peasant

Patricia Sohn • Feb 15 2019 • Articles

Policies that force people to choose between homogenization, fracture, or exclusion are rarely viable. Pluralism (institutional, cultural, social, and economic) offers extended periods of peace.

Internet Democracy in ‘New’ India

Pratick Mallick • Feb 15 2019 • Articles

The internet has given privileges as well as challenges to India which is new in the sense of the economic and according socio-political transformations.

Working with and Supporting Teaching Assistants

Benedict Docherty • Feb 14 2019 • Articles

Working with Teaching Assistants means considering an additional set of issues, but this time is well worth the while.

Why Did the U.S. and Israel Leave UNESCO?

Daniel Marwecki • Feb 14 2019 • Articles

Washington’s exit from UNESCO integrates seamlessly into a longer historical trajectory of engagement with the organization. Israel has little choice but to follow suit.

Turning Point & Padlet: Using Technology in Small Group Teaching

Benedict Docherty • Feb 13 2019 • Articles

Padle and Turning Point are technological tool that help engage small groups in a more interactive way and thus facilitate teaching and learning.

Key Mileposts and Actors in Settling the Comfort Women Impasse

Thomas J. Ward and William D. Lay • Feb 10 2019 • Articles

Bilateral relations reached an impasse after the impeachment of Park Geun-hye in 2017, unsettling further progress with Japan.

A Unified Korea: Good for All (Except Japan)

Strobe Driver • Feb 10 2019 • Articles

If the Koreas gain greater harmony they may focus more overtly on Japan’s past deeds and its present ambitions, directly impacting upon Japan’s ‘middle power‘ status.

What IR Can Learn From the Intellectual Historian

Terry Nardin and William Bain • Feb 9 2019 • Articles

The intellectual historian makes an important contribution to IR by taking its practitioners beyond the simple approach to the past that the idea of a canon represents.

J’accuse! The Case for Traditional Capitalism

Patricia Sohn • Feb 9 2019 • Articles

Traditionalism helps to avoid the pitfalls of Old World orthodoxy and New World secularism, which model the world on either a rosy interpretation of paradise or accept it as living hell.

The Geopolitics of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Bangladesh

Mubashar Hasan and Arild Engelsen Ruud • Feb 6 2019 • Articles

Human rights, freedom of speech and political equality are likely to remain under pressure even while the West is likely to continue its support for dissents and critics.

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