United States

Dressing the Sovereign: Fashion as a Symbolic Form of Sovereignty

Andreas Behnke • Feb 4 2016 • Articles

Rather than a ‘mask’ for a decapitated sovereign, fashion diplomacy provides a sartorial symbolic form for this sovereignty, making it visible and appreciable.

A “Major Terrorist Event” Case Study: Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012

Robert Tugwell • Jan 29 2016 • Essays

The Benghazi attacks ultimately assisted in the ongoing destabilisation of post-Gaddafi Libya, and advanced multiple extremist Islamist causes.

The United States and the Issue of Iran-Saudi Arabia Rivalry

Sohail Mahmood • Jan 20 2016 • Articles

The USA cannot take sides in a Shia-Sunni dispute. Yet it must take initiative through quiet diplomacy as only proactive diplomacy can defuse the Iran-Saudi tension.

Interview – Nadim Shehadi

E-International Relations • Jan 6 2016 • Features

Nadim Shehadi discusses what lessons from the Iraq War we can apply to the current Syrian conflict, the role of Iran in the Middle-East, and the fight against ISIS.

Interview – Nicholas Kristof

E-International Relations • Dec 28 2015 • Features

Nicholas Kristof discusses the Syrian Civil War, the attitudes of US Presidential Candidates towards refugees, and the challenges of reporting from war-torn countries.

Education Reform and the Asian Values Debate

Nicholas Tampio • Dec 24 2015 • Articles

The emergence of tutoring businesses all across neighborhoods in the United States is the result of American policymakers’ obsession with test-based education reform.

Interview – Nori Katagiri

E-International Relations • Dec 5 2015 • Features

Dr. Katagiri discusses his latest book on insurgencies, military strategies and cooperation and Japanese-American perceptions on security, politics and the world.

Review – The Incubus of Intervention

Jakob R. Avgustin • Dec 2 2015 • Features

A remarkable account of differences between John F. Kennedy and Allan Dulles that significantly contributes to our understanding of US involvement in Indonesia.

Putin’s Syrian Quagmire: Costs as well as Benefits for the US

Mark N. Katz • Dec 2 2015 • Articles

Just because Moscow insists on making mistakes in Syria, Washington does not have to do so too.

Interview – David Frum

E-International Relations • Dec 2 2015 • Features

David Frum discusses the need for a welfare state post 2008-09 economic crisis, left and right populism and the Republican Party’s future for the upcoming 2016 election.

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