Archive for 2014

More than a Family Business: US Military Interventions in Iraq in Perspective

Diego Pagliarulo • Sep 23 2014 • Articles

As it begins new military efforts to improve stability in the Middle East, the US must expand efforts to encourage cooperation among the region’s most influential actors.

What Makes a Good IR Course?

Dylan Kissane • Sep 22 2014 • Articles

A focus on improving course quality is laudable but we first need to determine what makes a good course and ask the right questions to be able to measure and assess it.

Review – The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World

Ajay Anil Cherian • Sep 22 2014 • Features

Despite the book’s omission of Pakistan’s ISI, T.V. Paul’s account of a highly armed yet insecure state is fundamental reading for any scholar concerned with South Asia.

Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to Now?

Strobe Driver • Sep 21 2014 • Articles

Unless Australia understands the new Asia-Pacific environment and ceases elevating the US and other regional Euro-centric allies, frictions with China will continue.

Citizenship in the Post-Yugoslav States: States, Nations, Rights

Jelena Dzankic • Sep 20 2014 • Articles

In the post-Yugoslav laboratory, different aspects of the regulation of membership have been adapted to strengthen the rule of an ethnic community or political faction.

Presidential Elections in Turkey: The Victory of a ‘New State of Affairs’

Nikos Moudouros • Sep 20 2014 • Articles

Turkey’s presidential developments mark two processes. First, reinstating the conflict around the position of political Islam. Second, a post-Western foreign policy.

Walter Mondale and the Recalibration of the Vice Presidency

Haley O'Shaughnessy • Sep 20 2014 • Essays

Mondale generated a new institutional model for the vice presidency, which expanded and strengthened the role, while leaving it accountable to the President.

IR Theory: Problem-Solving Theory Versus Critical Theory?

Matt Davies • Sep 19 2014 • Articles

There are political stakes in our theoretical choices. Critical theory seeks to enable the transformation of things, problem-solving theory – to keep things working.

Review – Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

Katherine Arner • Sep 17 2014 • Features

McNeill’s account advances an alternative, innovative reading of American history; indispensable material despite his ignorance of literature and capacity of medicine.

EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations: A New Trend in International Relations

Anna Katharina Stahl • Sep 16 2014 • Articles

In the context of an emerging multipolar world order, the European Union needs to engage with its Chinese and African counterparts in terms of a mutual exchange.

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