The Impact of ‘Identity Politics’ on Iranian-American Relations
1979 was a watershed for US-Iranian relations. Thereafter, a politics of identity has shaped relations, obstructing normalisation efforts.
Partition: Everyday Lives and Loyalties in West Bengal
After partition, many local and familial loyalties remained but for most, and particularly for the East Bengali refugees, lives and loyalties were changed irrevocably
Why Did ‘Intelligence’ Fail Britain and America in Iraq?
The intelligence gathered on Iraq featured a mixture of analytical failures, overstatement, misinterpretation and an overreliance on previous knowledge.
The Iraq War in International Society
The humanitarian and democratic war motives that partly contributed to the illegal and bloody Iraq war are symptomatic of the old normative contradictions of international society.
The Chinese Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine
China is rapidly expanding into the Western Hemisphere. While this is a challenge, treating it as a threat may be detrimental to American security and interests via the creation of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
An Explanatory Account of Stalin’s “Great Terror” and the Rwandan Genocide
A strategic explanatory account of mass killing is of extensive relevance, but evidently this human tragedy cannot be exclusively understood as a strategic consequence.
Building an Independent State in Kurdistan
The Kurdistan region has to earn its complete part in secession from being a de facto substate entity within the Iraqi state and transferring itself to a fully independent de jure state.
Riots in India: A Consequence of Democracy?
Political motivations offer only a partial explanation for Indian riots. They do not take into account religious mobilization, extremist ideologies, or perceptions of ‘the other’ that lead to participation in, or approval of, violence.
Why Do Wars Occur and How Do They End?
From the Peloponnesian Wars to the War on Terror, the brutal act of war itself has been packaged by all as a fight over what it means to be civilised.
Towards Presidentialism in Australia?
Australia has undergone a wide range of changes, impacting on the traditional role and image of its politics.
