The Impact of Neoconservative Think Tanks on American Foreign Policy
Neoconservatives think tanks do not simply give neutral recommendations; they are policy entrepreneurs who have made a significant impact on American foreign policy.
Art and International Relations
What can art do? What does IR care? Art and International Relations have so much to say to each other, if they only but knew it.
How Iran Adapts Itself to International Sanctions: Asianization of Trade and Economic Regionalism
The recent round of crippling and comprehensive sanctions on Iran will inevitably adversely affect the government’s economic manoeuvrability, but taking their toll first and foremost on the people, the sanctions are likely to fall short of curbing the country’s nuclear activities or changing its domestic and international behaviour
Explaining African State ‘failure’: Does the State Make the Nation or the Nation Make the State?
In seeking to explain ‘tribalism’ and ‘state failure’ in Africa, academics often point towards the misalignment of the nation and the state: either the post-colonial state has failed to make the nation, or nations have descended into ‘tribalism’ in the process of carving out a state. What is common in these two presumptions, is that all African nations or states have the power to make their counterpart; by extension, the ‘failure ‘of such processes is rarely problematised beyond domestic politics and historical references to the impact of colonialism.
Switzerland and the EU: Many a Slip Between Swiss Cup and Lip
Swiss politics has too many veto players for swift decisions. It is out of the interplay of these contending forces that any change in its foreign policy will come.
Climate Change, Limits to Adaptation and the ‘Loss and Damage’ Debate
An actor-centered and sustainable development framing would lead to a politically-achievable response to the urgent problem of climate-related crises around the world.
What to do about Russia? The German view
The European states and the United States are increasingly having to consider what policy they should adopt towards Russia. Aggression abroad, suppression of freedom at home, intimidation of all opposition, murder, corruption and anti-Semitism have given rise to increasing alarm. Germany is struggling to reconcile the political, military and economic issues raised by its powerful neighbour to the east.
Saudi – Bangladeshi Relations in Perspective
Should Saudi tensions with Iran ease, relations with Bangladesh could pick up as Ministers in Riyadh feel able to further diversify relations in South Asia.
Does Regionalism Challenge Globalization or Build Upon It?
Whilst the globe may be ‘shrinking’ with the advancement of technology and increasing interdependence, numerous weaknesses and unaddressed atrocities remain lay within the system of ‘globalized’ international relations. This paper argues that in response to the many faults the system of ‘globalization’ contains, a new form of regionalism has arisen in the world to address what global multilateralism can not.
Syria Teaches Us Little About Questions of Military Intervention
To some, the international response to the Syrian crisis has meant the end of the R2P. But the lack of intervention in Syria teaches us little about the intervention norm.
