Articles

Reframing Interests and Policies in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring

Benedetta Berti and Yoel Guzansky • Jul 22 2012 • Articles

Turning a blind eye to human rights violations and despotism is not just morally questionable, its not in the national interest.

Scottish Independence and Relations with the EU

Christian Schweiger • Jul 21 2012 • Articles

English Eurosceptics who consider Scottish independence as an opportunity to push their country quicker towards EU exit should think again. Scotland might have the last laugh after all.

Compatibility or Incommensurability: IR Theory and Complex Systems Analysis

Robert W. Glover • Jul 21 2012 • Articles

Taking the insights of complexity theory and complex systems analysis seriously in IR will require a substantial “re-boot” of much of the discipline’s theoretical apparatus. This may form the next great debate in the discipline.

Why Isn’t the U.S. Selling Iran iPhones?

Zachary Keck • Jul 21 2012 • Articles

American sanctions against exporting smartphones and computers to Iran are not only violating civil liberties but also common sense.

Contesting Sovereignty Over Pacific Islands During WWII

Matthew A. Hill • Jul 20 2012 • Articles

During World War II, the Pacific Islands were an area of great power rivalry between the otherwise allied Britain and the United States The catalyst for this rivalry was the expansion of civil and military aviation.

Uzbekistan’s Suspension of CSTO Membership: Policy as Usual in Tashkent

Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro • Jul 19 2012 • Articles

Uzbekistan’s temporary membership within CSTO served mostly to hamper the organization’s significance, while simultaneously obtaining some military goods.

Regional Voluntarism: The Sustainability of Nigerian Afrocentrism

Jonathan Ajere • Jul 19 2012 • Articles

Sustainable commitments to African security and development from Nigeria as well as achievement of its national interest are not incompatible.

The End of Maastricht and the last Euro: Will the EU Survive the Euro Crisis?

John Weeks • Jul 19 2012 • Articles

The original motivation for what has become the EU was for a lasting peace in Europe, in which no country would dominate the continent. Yet, the euro and large country nationalism have changed the EU into the vehicle to achieve that domination.

Turning Back the Clock in Great Power Politics

Robert W. Murray • Jul 19 2012 • Articles

The collapse of the USSR ushered in the unipolar moment of IR and meant that traditional approaches to understanding the world immediately became antiquated, or did it?

The Malian Tinderbox: Looking Beyond Bamako

Abdelkader Abderrahmane • Jul 19 2012 • Articles

The crisis in Mali, seems to be heading dramatically towards an eco-strategic-religious international power struggle in which the indigenous population may well become the first victim.

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