Articles

New Century, Old Rivalries: Russian Military Modernisation and NATO

Markus Heinrich • Jun 25 2016 • Articles

With both NATO and Russia endeavouring to increase and improve their military capabilities against the other, a new arms race is on the cards.

Reworking Palm Oil Welfare from the Grassroots in Indonesia

Maharani Hapsari • Jun 23 2016 • Articles

Palm oil workers are presented the challenge of formulating a collective agenda and political strategies. They currently do not have the capacity to do so.

“Son of Lies”: History, Baghdadi and the Legacy of ISIS

John A. Rees • Jun 22 2016 • Articles

Whilst the ISIS effect will not disappear overnight, the power to doubt the divine sanction of a failing movement is significant.

Thinking About Ethics, Thinking Across Fields

Nicholas Onuf • Jun 22 2016 • Articles

A distaste for liberal utilitarianism could serve as common ground for mounting any campaign for a coherent alternative to modern ethical systems.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy and the Failure of the Doha Oil Negotiations

Martin Beck • Jun 21 2016 • Articles

The decision of Saudi Arabia to let the Doha summit fail may be considered as a stone in the mosaic of Riyadh converting its foreign policy approach.

Signature Pedagogies in International Relations

Jan Lüdert • Jun 18 2016 • Articles

We can learn a lot by exploring the signature pedagogies of the study and praxis of IR and by examining how these signature pedagogies improve teaching and learning.

The Rationality Gap: Brexit and the Immigration Question

Phil Cole • Jun 16 2016 • Articles

If Britain abandons reason and principle, we will not be able to reclaim them and we will end up back in a place which we thought Europe had left behind forever.

Is It Time for an Iranian-American Buddy Film?

Robert A. Saunders • Jun 15 2016 • Articles

Challenging dominant IR narratives and reworking the US geopolitical imaginary of Iran via popular culture is possible. Stranger things have happened.

Hillary Clinton’s Response to the Pulse Orlando Shootings

Ali E. Erol • Jun 15 2016 • Articles

Queer scholars must deconstruct discourses and affective structures that attempt to put queer subjects in binaries and offer citizenship in exchange of being a part of global warfare.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and the Future of Peruvian Security

Barnett S. Koven • Jun 15 2016 • Articles

While the campaign focused on rising criminality and the economy, Peru’s counterinsurgency efforts in the Valley of the Rivers received scant attention

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