Weak states may be unable to protect their citizens from violence, provide basic infrastructure, create accountable institutions, or set the conditions for sustainable growth.
The West’s democracy promotion has achieved an outcome antithetical to its purpose: an increase in the violence of and destabilization within low-income and conflict-affected states.
Political Islamism has become mainstreamed to such an extent that no regime in the region can avoid engaging with it.
Evidence indicates a clear sign from China that currently it’s intentions are purely cooperative with no noticeable major change in national security strategy.
Global communication developments are creating a patchwork of cultures, but they are also creating homogenization through the spread of capitalism.
Neither securitization nor desecuritization are in and of themselves positive or negative, which enables both schools to say something interesting about security.
The United Nations have gained the chair of global moral arbiter in an essentially anarchic international society and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
While airpower is an important and powerful arm of military force, in today’s unconventional wars, it cannot alone be employed to fulfill an actor’s grand strategy.
Human rights have emerged as a central tenet to IR, however, the international human rights regime faces impediment as a guarantor of universal human rights.
The differences between Machiavelli and Bashar al-Assad in their approaches are stark. When compared, Bashar al-Assad cannot be considered a true Machiavellian realist.
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