Archive for 2014

China’s Counterproductive Counterterrorism Policies

Justin Hastings • Oct 8 2014 • Articles

The crackdown on Uyghur separatist violence is unlikely to be successful in the long term and may paradoxically be creating the very problem China always feared.

Review – Spheres of Influence in International Relations

John Berryman • Oct 7 2014 • Features

Hast uses the vision behind Russia’s foreign policy as an example to illustrate the continuity of world politics in clear and informative ways.

The Chickenhawk Argument

Cheyney Ryan • Oct 7 2014 • Articles

Concern with the chickenhawk syndrome aims to reclaim a cluster of concerns. Although its moral impulse is clear, its institutional implications are less clear.

A Liberal Defense of Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy

Benjamin E. Goldsmith • Oct 6 2014 • Articles

Obama is a foreign policy Liberal, in the best sense of the term. He has delivered a balanced foreign policy that protects U.S. interests while promoting U.S. values.

The Effects of the Mexican Drug Trade over the Past Sixty Years

Michael E K Jones • Oct 5 2014 • Essays

Drug trade has manufactured a deterioration of the federal state, but alarmist discourse conflates heterogeneous local effects with political issues at the national level

Maher vs. Aslan: Islam Is Not Violent, People Are…

Stephen McGlinchey • Oct 3 2014 • Articles

The big foreign policy issues facing us often revolve around deeply divisive religious issues. So, we should educate ourselves rather than settle behind one talking head.

Liberalism, Neoliberalism and Corruption: a Critical Genealogy

Kirill Kovalenko • Oct 1 2014 • Essays

Proponents of liberalism will usually view liberalism as anti-corruption. History suggests something more complex – liberalism’s relationship to corruption is ambiguous.

MOOC Revolutions?

Giles Scott-Smith • Oct 1 2014 • Articles

Educational methods are never static. MOOCs do at least make those of us active in education reflect on what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. And that is not bad.

What Counts for Important?

Dylan Kissane • Sep 30 2014 • Articles

Part of the job of an IR professor is to challenge the student to see that what happens in a distant land can have real implications for local politics too.

Unmasking China’s Assertive Behaviour in the Maritime Sphere

Fareed Amir • Sep 29 2014 • Essays

China’s assertive behaviour in the South China Sea (SCS) and East China Sea (ECS) is primarily motivated by nationalism and economic interests.

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