As the causal mechanisms and positivist epistemology underpinning it are questionable, the democratic peace should be understood as part of a more complex causal process.
The success of Palestinian nationalism in the context of the peace process is complicated by the variations in Orientalism which occur between different forms of Zionism.
An historical analysis of the rise and fall of ideas in IR shows a messy, idiosyncratic, and capricious process of multiple causes, ironies, and dilemmas.
Contrary to common belief, classical realism and critical theory share an under-acknowledged historical and intellectual proximity.
The problem for human security is that it continues to be articulated in terms unintelligible to the majority of the subjects in whose name it speaks: humanity.
From a realist perspective, the impressive devotion of top-troop contributors to UN Peacekeeping is rooted in several political, professional, and economic motivations.
Constructivism captures the political nature of the climate change issue and is able to put it in its respective historical and social context.
There is nothing wrong with endorsing freedom, tolerance and respect for the law as values. But claiming that they emerge from a particular national identity is divisive.
Since the middle of the previous decade, the dramatic rise to prominence of the ‘new atheism’ has kept issues of religion at the forefront of public debate.
The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador partly failed but has also reached significant successes.
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