Contesting Impunity in Colombia
Impunity has been key to determining the Colombian peace process. The question remains whose perception of impunity in the context of negotiated peace will prevail?
The ‘China Factor’ in India’s Maritime Engagement with Southeast Asia
China and India’s rise as major naval powers does not preclude the possibility of both developing a more cooperative dynamic in protecting the maritime ‘global commons’.
Public Diplomacy: China’s Newest Charm Offensive
Though much remains uncertain due to China’s unique political system, trust remains a crucial ingredient for the success of its various endeavours abroad and ultimately, its public diplomacy.
Steps Toward Redress for Comfort Women
For decades, the comfort women remained in the shadows because of the deep shame and guilt that they felt as a result of their experiences at the hands of Imperial Japan during the Second World War.
Looking Back at 2011
2011 is a moment in history which encapsulated the impulse for achieving democracy yet a review of subsequent events show democratisation is an extremely complex process.
Peace Journalism in Theory and Practice
Peace journalism is a valid attempt for stripping war journalism from its deeply embedded bias that considers militarism as the most effective remedy to conflict.
Forty Years of Constructing Development: How China Adopted GDP Measurement
Tracing how China adopted GDP measurement in the early reform period (1978-1993) tells us more about how GDP has shaped China’s current powerful status.
Moscow and the Baltic States: Experience of Relationships, 1917–1939
The Soviets did not understand what they wanted in the Baltic region. A hierarchisation of goals and objectives, and an adequate assessment of their own capabilities and resources was not conducted.
The Redemption of British-American Special Intelligence Relationship
American intelligence is credible compared with its equivalent in undemocratic societies, but in the interest of objectivity still needs to be challenged.
Habitus: Why Positive Law Is Better than Originalism or Post-Modernism in Law
Positive law stands as a tradition that predates post-modernism and post-structuralism; and, yet, it persists as an important corrective to them in their extremes.
