Articles

Church, State and Culture: Should Religion Be a Private Matter?

Brendan Sweetman • Sep 26 2015 • Articles

Secular liberalism has become an influential, even dominant, worldview among sections of the intellectual class in many Western societies.

The Contemporary Ambiguities of Religions as a Source of Civilisational Identity

Fabio Petito • Sep 25 2015 • Articles

The international society is experiencing an epoch-making process of transformation. The global resurgence of religion is not unrelated to these structural changes.

Forced Marriage in Australia: Definitely Not the ‘Usual Suspects’

Carolyn M. Evans • Sep 23 2015 • Articles

Forced marriage comprises an untidy bundle of wrongs lost at the intersection of international relations, state sovereignty, human rights, and criminal accountability.

VVP: Is Vladimir Putin the Super-Villain We’ve All Been Waiting For?

Robert A. Saunders • Sep 22 2015 • Articles

Like Osama bin Laden circa 2000, Vladimir Putin, while real enough, is more a figment of our popular-geopolitical imagination, and one which we cannot live without.

Turkey’s Borderlands, the Syrian Civil War, and the Kurds

Ugur Ümit Üngör • Sep 22 2015 • Articles

For countries that share a long land border and overlapping populations with similar customs, ‘spillover’ is a natural sociological corollary of transnational ties.

Looking Back to See Forward: Romanticism, Religion and the Secular in Modernity

Mark Cladis • Sep 21 2015 • Articles

The pervasive religious aspects of Romanticism demonstrate the failure of previous theories of secularisation. Modernity has never been a monolithic intellectual.

The State of the Art of the English School

Filippo Costa Buranelli • Sep 18 2015 • Articles

The English School has resisted well to criticism and calls for closure over the years, refining some of its under-specified aspects without losing its central identity

Four Religions of Foreign Policy

John A. Rees • Sep 18 2015 • Articles

There are many healthy debates on religion and foreign policy, but there is still more to say about the nuances of religion at play in the international sphere.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: An Historical Perspective

Georges Depeyrot • Sep 17 2015 • Articles

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization marks a shift in Russia’s politics and changes the role of China in the region, as it seeks to play a leading role in the world.

Shifting Territorial Orders and Religion

Gertjan Dijkink • Sep 14 2015 • Articles

All ingredients for a religious revival are present in the current era: the experience of imperial threat and a change in the spatial configuration of authority.

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