Resende and Budryte’s volume brings a fresh approach to the study of trauma and memory in IR, although ultimately fails to propose a coherent research agenda.
Syria’s strong patrimonial military has no incentives to break with the regime. Until such incentives exist, the uprisings will probably fail.
When South Sudan gained independence, it was easy to predict that the path towards the construction of a new state would have been full of obstacles.
Despite it being a core principle of the international order, actual politics of self-determination are extremely ambiguous.
Whilst the genocide was transpiring in Rwanda in 1994, there was only one morally defensible course of action for the international community – intervention.
Encouraging apolitical activities focused around the common concerns of communities holds great potential to foster reconciliation in post-atrocity contexts.
To ignore the internal dynamics that determined the political boundaries of the Middle East is to overlook the region’s power to shape policy.
With functional and participatory institutions, South Sudan may well reclaim itself as a diverse nation within the regional and international environment.
What’s a Social Democrat to do? One solution is to push for enhanced powers for the EU Parliament. Another is to consider that EU institutions may have to be re-imagined.
The impulse that drove America to look to China was brought about by harsh economic realities, and ideological considerations would consistently take second place.
