Brexit: Global Perspectives
This new blog focuses on the geopolitical implications of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, providing a forum for critical analysis and discussion of diverse global issues and outlooks on Brexit.
Quitaly, Outstria, ‘Eu Revoir’? The Coming Legacy of Brexit
Brexit is merely an early skirmish in the battle for Europe. Further conflicts are coming.
Conflict in Kashmir: From the Ground Up
As long as the world does not pay attention to the Kashmiri narrative, Kashmir will see many more periods of agitation, disruption and protest.
Populist Challenge and Political Judgement
We live in an era of the devaluation of knowledge in which the difference between ‘truth’ and ‘lies’ does not count anymore; this makes electorates prone to populism.
Framing the Refugee
Unless citizens are willing to problematize their own position, power and safety, they must accept that they are not willing to take the Refugee Question seriously.
Foreign Aid and Development Outcomes: Is the U.S. Lagging Behind?
Improving safeguards and accountability will allow people to have a voice and a choice in their own development. That is something the US should be proud to champion.
Methods War: How Ideas Matter within Political Science
Calls for qualitative scholars to share their fieldwork notes is not only illegal, but also threatens the integrity and quality of the qualitative research process.
In the Dawn of a New Barbaric Era
People are no longer interested in facts. Post-truth politics is advancing, as seen in Trump’s presidential race in the USA and the Brexit shock.
War with China: Ascending Powers, Expansionism and the Use-of-Force
The current state-of-affairs suggests that as China is exhibiting a pre-WWI German paradigm a war will happen as it exponentially increases its expansionism.
Deliberation and Strategic Action: How they Mutually Enhance Norm Diffusion
Norm diffusion involves the cost–benefit calculations of strategic behaviour enhancing the communicative reasoning of deliberative behaviour, and vice versa.
