Articles

The Barents Sea: Environment Cooperation in the Anthropocene Era

Florian Vidal • May 6 2018 • Articles

The Barents region illustrates the fate of this civilization erected from fossil resources. To some extent, it may even appear as a last stand.

Does Denuclearization Mean Giving up North Korea’s ‘Treasured Sword’?

Srini Sitaraman • May 6 2018 • Articles

North Korea is floating several versions of denuclearization that point to arms control, mutual nuclear limitations and reductions, or maybe even a testing freeze.

Turkish-U.S. Strategic Relations and the Syrian Civil War

Polat Urundul • May 6 2018 • Articles

The U.S. should not neglect Turkey’s security concerns in Syria, while Turkey must be ready to see the Kurdish people play a role in Syria’s political transition.

The 2018 Women’s Strike in Spain: An Ongoing Struggle against Gender Oppression

Tayrine Dias • May 4 2018 • Articles

Although successful, the women’s strike in Spain and in Barcelona was a contentious process that opened crucial debates towards a more inclusive society.

Civilizations, Political Systems and Power Politics: A Critique of Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’

Anna Khakee • May 4 2018 • Articles

What we are seeing along the most conflictual of the civilizational fault lines is not so much a civilizational conflict as a conflict over alternative political systems.

The Nuclear Taboo and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Matthew Bolton • May 2 2018 • Articles

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ self-aware refashioning of the nuclear taboo draws attention to stigmatization processes in international politics.

Why (Clash of) Civilizations Discourses Just Won’t Go Away? Understanding the Civilizational Politics of Our Times

Gregorio Bettiza and Fabio Petito • May 1 2018 • Articles

Identity politics has opened up the space for civilizations to reassert themselves as crucial discursive vectors of contemporary antagonisms.

Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Today: Responses and Developments

Jeffrey Haynes • May 1 2018 • Articles

The UN and moderate Muslims have stressed that interreligious and intercultural dialogue is the way forward. But, will politicians act accordingly?

From Styria to Syria: A Return of a Thirty Years’ War?

Davide Ragnolini • Apr 30 2018 • Articles

In IR debates, an epistemic challenge to the Westernist and the radical Orientalist orientations could come from a clear-eyed reassessment of our past wars.

From Euphoria to Inertia: Brazil’s International Rise and Decline

Alexandra de Mello e Silva • Apr 29 2018 • Articles

Foreign policy is usually not considered relevant in Brazil’s domestic agenda but it is time to realize that the country is part of the same globalised world.

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