Can China Continue to Rise Peacefully?
China’s economic and political rise is unlikely to be peaceful in the medium to long-term scope of US-China relations due to its pursuit of an aggressive foreign policy.
Historical Institutionalism Meets IR: Explaining Patterns in EU Defence Spending
Historical institutionalist concepts explain the European Union’s recent increase in defence spending through an analysis of past events and critical junctures.
A Constructivist Approach to Chinese Interest Formation in the South China Sea
Analysis focusing mainly on security, power and wealth in the case of the South China Sea would be fatal, as this approach would lead straight into Thucydides’ Trap.
Capitalism and the Rise of New Slavery: From Slave Trade to Slave in Trade
To confront new slavery, we need to realise the paradoxes in the West and start questioning basic ideas including sovereignty, freedom and realism as an ideology.
Australia on the United Nations Security Council 2013-14: An Evaluation
While Australia did have a chance to exert some influence and produce resolutions, the state’s time at the forefront of the Council was not entirely successful.
“Sanctions Are Coming”: Fear and Iranophobia in American Foreign Policy
Iran’s characterization as a great threat in the Middle East is largely a result of institutionalized “Iranophobia” within American foreign policy.
Beyond Black Flags: Daesh as a Framework for Strategic Identity Analysis
Strategic culture analysis’ inability to properly approach non-state actors as a unit of analysis means that modern asymmetric conflicts, such as with ISIS/Daesh, are rendered incomprehensible.
The Gouzenko Affair and the Development of Canadian Intelligence
Canadian intelligence reached its sophistication as result of the Gouzenko Affair, which triggered a ramp up of counter-espionage and Signals Intelligence capabilities.
Consequences of Coercion: Impacts and Limitations of Targeted Sanctions Regimes
Despite their widespread usage through the UN Security Council, targeted sanctions regimes fail to effectively impair the capacity of the targeted entity.
China in Africa: A Form of Neo-Colonialism?
Defying other states, China is acting like a normal emerging power, playing the geopolitical game and inevitably growing its influence on the African continent.
