Can Gazprom be a Reliable Central Asian Gas Supplier to Europe?
The EU’s interests in Central Asia are best served through cooperation with Gazprom rather than competition.
Taming the Anarchical Society
We should see The Anarchical Society as a book more important for what it says about Western anxieties in the latter half of the 1970s than for what it might offer latter-day theorists.
Oliver North: A New Low for the Military-Industrial-Entertainment Network
American geopolitical entertainment has become brutal. Games play with relish for pro-American killing & bloodlust, morally fig-leafed by patriotism.
Interdependence as a Constraint Upon State Behaviour
The 1973 oil crisis shows how the development of relations between systemic actors has become characterized by systems of complex interdependence.
China in Transition: From a Harmonious World to a Contested Region
China’s new leadership will inherit a complex, and highly contested security environment from Sino-US relations to territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Racism and Sport: Myths and Facts
Racism and xenophobia are important issues in sports. Why is racism continuously reframed and conceptualized in different situations, and why it is still so pervasive and reluctant to die?
An Election Short on Hope: Mexico 2012
Mexico’s recent Presidential election returned the PRI back to power twelve years after the party was ousted. Numerous problems continue to plague the country. This election won’t change that.
“Welcome to North Korea,” Predicting the Effect of Russia’s new Protest Law
While Russia is not likely to emerge as North Korea, or even Belarus, it is likely that the state will continue to engage in a complex strategy of repression to maintain its position.
Turned Inside-Out: The Concept of the Political and Reflexive International Relations
While international politics is fettered and formed by the imperious political culture of the West, IR is developing a reflexive turn. That turn gives a new compelling impetus to the popular and radical traditions of resistance and critique.
Scottish Energy and Catalan Hope
The necessity to control one’s economic, political and cultural space in the global market seems to indicate that the separatist sentiment among the Scottish and the Catalans will continue to grow.
