EU Foreign Policy in East Asia: EU-Japan Relations and the Rise of China
While Japan and the EU are allies who emphasize liberal values in their foreign policy, geopolitical concerns have prevented them from agreeing on a China policy.
The Dangers of Securitizing Health
Securitization can be a beneficial strategy for policy makers in global health but its Eurocentric nature creates a binary between the West and developing states.
In Search of a European Strategy? From a Normative to a Pragmatic Approach
Differences between the ESS and the EUGS are examined, illustrating challenges the EU expects to face and the long-term framework of the EU’s foreign and defence policy.
The Use of “Remote” Warfare: A Strategy to Limit Loss and Responsibility
Remote warfare has become increasingly popular among Western governments as both a political and military tool in the fight against terror.
The False Dichotomy of the Material-Ideational Debate in IR Theory
Contrary to what most IR theory perspectives envision, material and ideational forces are mutually constitutive, not oppositional.
The Carter Administration and Human Rights in Chile, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter ignored human rights abuses perpetuated by the Pinochet regime and only responded if the threat was to do with containing the communist threat in Chile.
Terrorism and the End of Western Hegemony: A Gramscian Perspective
Terrorists’ organizations are counter-hegemonic strategy that pose a threat to US hegemony, and these non-state structures operate along the Gramscian model.
Security Implications of the Export of Chinese Surveillance Systems
China legitimizes its position in the world by promoting its surveillance state model as a stable alternative to democracies and other autocracies.
Mitigating the Human Cost of Modern Conflict: Jus in Bello and Cyberattacks
Global governance mechanisms are inadequate to address cyberattacks outside armed conflict as these threats tend to exist in a ‘grey zone’ between peacetime and conflict.
Laboring for Nuclear Disarmament? The Diplomacy of the Hawke-Keating Governments
The Hawke and Keating administrations used “enlightened realpolitik” to promote nuclear disarmament while still keeping Australia under the American nuclear umbrella.
