Despite promises, the Taliban reversed course on full access to education. As a result, Afghanistan remains isolated from international recognition and Afghans continue to suffer.
There is no obvious end point or exit point for Putin as his goal is to win and occupy a vast territory and to be recognized as a victorious conqueror that has restored the glory of Russia.
Heroic efforts displayed by peasants and indigenous people represent spaces of hope against the weight of ecological breakdown and social injustice.
Constructivists, of all the types of IR scholars, should be able to see how professions and social spaces work, and hence what they do to (and with) intellectual movements, like Constructivism.
What quantum social theory adds is the idea that measurement is creative, but also that relationalities are entangled in ways that our conventional understandings of reality don’t understand, or deny.
The Budapest Memorandum worked in the short-term by de-nuclearizing a former Soviet state, but proved worthless in deterring Russian aggression.
Until recently, tourism in Vietnam has been intently focused on the legacy of the war and international perceptions of Vietnam are changing only at a snail-pace
The EU is starting to demonstrate the self-assurance of a great power, but it will need to go beyond its technocratic approach and commit to a robust identity and value-based vision.
Central Asia is heading towards a radical reconfiguration in the geopolitical balance of power, possibly even towards war.
Ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean represents an opportunity for the European Union to rethink its enlargement and cooperation policies.
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