Review – The Global Trajectories of Queerness
A must read text for anyone teaching gender studies who is seeking to diversify their accounts of queer theory, gender and sexuality from cross-cultural perspectives.
Foreign Aid and Development Outcomes: Is the U.S. Lagging Behind?
Improving safeguards and accountability will allow people to have a voice and a choice in their own development. That is something the US should be proud to champion.
In the Dawn of a New Barbaric Era
People are no longer interested in facts. Post-truth politics is advancing, as seen in Trump’s presidential race in the USA and the Brexit shock.
War with China: Ascending Powers, Expansionism and the Use-of-Force
The current state-of-affairs suggests that as China is exhibiting a pre-WWI German paradigm a war will happen as it exponentially increases its expansionism.
Deliberation and Strategic Action: How they Mutually Enhance Norm Diffusion
Norm diffusion involves the cost–benefit calculations of strategic behaviour enhancing the communicative reasoning of deliberative behaviour, and vice versa.
Trump Vs Clinton: A Post-Mortem
If party politics fails again to represent the electorate as in 2016, the only people who will be able to rise above the acrimony will be populists like Donald Trump.
Discourse, Power, and Subjectivity in Global Politics
IR often ignores the political forces that shape which discourse prevails. Discourse and emotional investments in “we-ness” shape foreign policy from BREXIT to the GWOT.
Interview – Antoni Kapcia
Antoni Kapcia discusses the recent détente between Cuba and the US, considers the future of Cuba’s leadership, and emphasizes the unique nature of the Cuban system.
China: New Steps Forward in Africa
By understanding China’s approach as pragmatic, not altruistic, those working with China can come out with economic gains.
Will the Battle for Mosul Change the Power of the Kurds in Iraq?
Although Mosul has been a critical point of strategic significance, the Kurdish status in Iraq has been consolidated and Kurdish power extends beyond the fight for Mosul.
