Iran’s nuclear posture: defensively viable or offensively radical? A defensive realist approach tells the story of a vulnerable country in an increasingly threatening neighbourhood.
The Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement is a good case study for the Government of New Zealand’s view on bilateral and regional free trade agreements.
Rather than redefining traditional notions of security to encompass the environment, the link between environmental change and vulnerability to conflict must be examined.
Social glasnost may encapsulate the increasing sweeping changes, specifically the Arab Spring, Occupy Movements, and Kony 2012, brought by anyone with an Internet or a mobile signal.
The Irish Defence Forces creates soldiers by replacing individuality with an identity that embodies the Irish masculine ideal of being emotionally void, heterosexual, and strong.
In the West, terrorism is largely a constructed threat, originating from the desire to construct identity. Macro-securitized, it is the greatest performance of the 21st century.
The privatization and commoditization of water involves complex distributional choices that disproportionately impact women and girls living in slums and informal settlements.
Latin America is not as politically developed as the West, yet is autonomous enough not to blindly follow Western models. It is set to carve its own path to sustainable democracy.
Because the ODA allows Japan to show its international presence, as the country cannot deploy its defense forces, Japan’s ODA remains the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy.
The behaviour of any particular Islamist movement is rarely static, as movements and parties tend to moderate their ideologies under both inclusive and exclusive regimes.
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