Fighting the Environmental Battles: Governance and the Democratic State
Environmental policies have evolved away from the certainties of the 1970s, which reflects a much broader transformation in the nature of the western democratic state.
The Permanent Interim: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ongoing Educational Crisis
The continuation of “us” vs. “them” policies that marginalize minorities cannot bode well for a fragile country’s future. Education should be seen as a security issue.
ISIS, Obama, and Jimmy Carter: When God Was On Their Side
It is a little too cheap for Carter to criticise Obama over how he deals with ISIS due to the direct linkage with his own actions in the region over three decades ago.
Foreign Policy as a Tool of State-Building in the Post-Yugoslav States
Foreign policy as a tool of state-building promises new evidence and may force us to re-think key concepts in international relations.
The Umbrella: Bodies, Deportment and Geopolitics
The role of objects in world politics continues to deserve our attention, including the ways in which human and non-human agency combine to re-engineer the umbrella.
State Department U. ?
Steven Mintz’s piece provides a great summary of where higher education is currently innovating and what the higher education model of the future might look like.
IR and the Future Wars of First-Person Military Shooters
In the third generation of military shooters, IR concerns manifest as future war and the insecurity charted by IR collapses into open confrontation.
Policing in France: Some Tips for a Would-be President?
Any would-be president needing better ratings could improve the state’s relationship with large sections of its citizenry by addressing the institution of policing.
China’s Counterproductive Counterterrorism Policies
The crackdown on Uyghur separatist violence is unlikely to be successful in the long term and may paradoxically be creating the very problem China always feared.
The Chickenhawk Argument
Concern with the chickenhawk syndrome aims to reclaim a cluster of concerns. Although its moral impulse is clear, its institutional implications are less clear.
