The European Union functions as a powerful and influential actor in the global order. The Eurozone crisis, however, has meant a significant loss of credibility and prestige for the institution.
The claim that institutional misconduct was the cause of the financial crisis is only partly correct. Both Neo-Realism and Liberalism led up to the financial crisis.
Modern media is a unique and as yet uncontrollable information battlespace with the potential to leverage internal and external forces to act on the side which can best utilize its effects.
Scholars outside of law and computer science must investigate virtual environments, since the application of State law to a virtual environment has proven to be ineffective.
It could be argued that Russian foreign policy is based on the belief that Russia still has the right to impose its interests on the post-communists states as if they still were Moscow’s satellites.
Where do we draw the line with the concept of state sovereignty? It is important that certain elements of international law be revised in order to limit the clout of the super powers.
The promotion of unfettered and intense marketization is the foremost causal factor contributing to Cambodia’s inability to consolidate democracy following a UN-sponsored transition.
Factors such as exclusion and poverty have a important causal relationship with armed conflict and social division. Economic and social rights, therefore, must be central to post-conflict societies.
Violence and terrorism were used for political objectives, but an entrenched government, be it the French in 1954 or the FLN in the 1990s, must appease its constituents, provide services, and uphold law and order.
While there are many organizations in the U.S. government that can influence foreign policy, when focusing on foreign policy decision making, the president is, for the most part, the dominant actor.
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