When Tiers Clash: Devolution vs. Democracy in Pakistan
Pakistani political parties may be right that at the local level they will be outcompeted by local elites, but they are mistaken to think that means they must ignore local politics.
The Workers’ Party and Democratisation in Brazil
Whilst its programmes have not been comprehensively successful, The Worker’s Party has been a largely democratising force in what is a continuous, evolutionary process.
Adam Smith and the Economic Model of State-Individual Relation: Design, Impact, Prevalence
Adam Smith’s greatest social and economic legacy lies in his theory’s contribution to the development of the fundamental civilizational factors that formed the modern West.
Building Theory Through History
The biggest shortcoming of IR students is their lack of historical background. If this problem was corrected, it would greatly help their efforts at understanding the world around them.
Review – Border Walls
With imagination and erudition, Jones investigates the fundamental tensions between democratic ideals and the brute realities of the enforcement of state power on the ground.
International Climate Change Politics: Challenges and Opportunities
The path to a more effective international climate politics is paved by transition to low carbon economies that reflect the true costs of greenhouse emissions.
Israel and the United States: Facing Dramatic Decisions
The Obama administration must understand that an Israeli military operation against Iran is liable to drag the United States into the battlefield against its will.
Constructing Responsibility: Sovereignty and Intervention in the Wake of Libya
If states act according to self-interest and material capacity, as the dominant paradigm suggests, why do values and common humanity even matter?
Beware the Utopians
How can we set limits to state sovereignty and power without lapsing into a form of utopianism, directed towards an end point, that entails the paternalistic and imperialistic policies of cosmopolitanism?
Uzbekistan’s Play With Fire?
Uzbekistan’s withdrawal from CSTO will not significantly affect the activities of this organisation and does not indicate any major change in Uzbekistan’s foreign policy.
