Articles

The UN’s Shame: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping

Kathleen Jennings • Oct 21 2015 • Articles

The UN’s Zero-Tolerance Policy simply does not work and neither a particularly good job protecting the local population nor, for that matter, the UN’s reputation.

From the Local to the Global: The Politics of Food Systems

Caitlin Michelle Scott • Oct 17 2015 • Articles

The struggle over food is political at all scales of the system, and this politics must be studied as the multi-scalar and complex entity it is.

Strategies for Making Large Lectures More Interactive

Jess Gifkins • Oct 17 2015 • Articles

Active learning is what we would like students to be doing in a lecture: thinking about and engaging with the content, rather than copying slides.

Kunduz – Beyond the Battleground

Siegfried O. Wolf • Oct 16 2015 • Articles

The latest military operations by the Taliban in the North of Afghanistan make obvious that the group seems not to be weakened at all, but even stronger than before.

China and the ‘Thucydides Trap’

Amrita Jash • Oct 16 2015 • Articles

China’s rise may be bringing an end to the Gramscian notion of western hegemony and thereby creating a new kind of balance of power.

A Simple Paradigm for Noopolitics: The Geopolitics of Knowledge

Idriss J. Aberkane • Oct 15 2015 • Articles

The interaction between knowledge and power reformulates simple geopolitical principles that have been all-to-often forgotten by Classical Realism.

The “Peace” in China’s Peaceful Rise

Sriparna Pathak • Oct 15 2015 • Articles

The rise of China as a significant player in international politics is viewed with suspicion, and questions emerge whether it will challenge the hegemony of the U.S.

ASEAN Regional Institutions: Remaining Relevant amidst External Power Rivalries

Moe Thuzar • Oct 11 2015 • Articles

Maintaining ASEAN’s relevance amidst external power rivalries is premised upon ASEAN’s regional institutions remaining resilient to influences by external factors.

ISIS and the Destruction of Antiquities

Michael Barak • Oct 10 2015 • Articles

ISIS reaps political dividends from the mere fact of the obsessive concern and anxiety in the West over the destruction of antiquities in Syria and Iraq.

Contextualizing the Current Social Protest Movement in Lebanon

Martin Beck • Oct 10 2015 • Articles

Social movements that seek to combat corruption in Lebanon face a large number of obstacles when attempting to apply strategies suitable to change the system.

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