Articles

Lake Chad: A Climate of Fragility

Any future interventions in and around Lake Chad will have to be mindful of its particular climate-fragility and these trends that are likely to shape its future.

Jan Smuts, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Legacies of Liberalism

Vineet Thakur • May 18 2018 • Articles

Placing Smuts and Nehru within the broader liberal paradigm, we come to a picture that is both global and local, contextual and textual, historical and contemporary.

Why Trump’s Meeting with North Korea Matters: The Asia-Middle East Connection

Patricia Sohn • May 18 2018 • Articles

Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un may be strategic for U.S. foreign politics in the face of strengthening relations between North Korea and Iran.

The UK: No Longer a Benevolent Patron

Peter Clegg • May 17 2018 • Articles

The UK’s decision to leave the EU, in particular, has initiated a set of centrifugal forces in the relationship between the UK and its Territories.

Visualising the Drone: War Art as Embodied Resistance

Federica Caso • May 16 2018 • Articles

War art belongs to an aesthetics that is derived from practical and real-world encounters, and which sets to apprehend the world via sense-based and affective processes.

Brexit and Arms Sales to the Philippines: A Reactive Approach to Human Rights

Tegg Westbrook • May 12 2018 • Articles

While difficult to prove that UK weapons are directly used to human suffering in the Philippines, there is a possibility that they were directly or indirectly used.

What is Happening in Afghanistan?

Grant Farr • May 12 2018 • Articles

The US is losing the war and has become a part of the problem. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the US experience in Vietnam.

The Domestic Nightmare and the Unfulfilled Global Dreams of Brazil

Francine Rossone de Paula • May 11 2018 • Articles

In the name of the dream of global relevance in the future, Brazilian leaders often ends up forgetting to rule in the name of people’s well-being in the present.

Arrested Development: Brazil in a World in Crisis (2008-2018)

Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama • May 11 2018 • Articles

Caught in the transition between competitive scarcity and competitive abundance the status of Brazil as an emerging power was left hanging in the balance.

Russia, the West and the Growing Gap between Narratives

Alisher Faizullaev • May 8 2018 • Articles

In such a confrontational situation, both parties need to better understand each other’s narratives. To be more effective, the Russia-West diplomacy may use narrative analysis and negotiations.

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