What Makes a Good IR Course?
A focus on improving course quality is laudable but we first need to determine what makes a good course and ask the right questions to be able to measure and assess it.
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to Now?
Unless Australia understands the new Asia-Pacific environment and ceases elevating the US and other regional Euro-centric allies, frictions with China will continue.
Citizenship in the Post-Yugoslav States: States, Nations, Rights
In the post-Yugoslav laboratory, different aspects of the regulation of membership have been adapted to strengthen the rule of an ethnic community or political faction.
Presidential Elections in Turkey: The Victory of a ‘New State of Affairs’
Turkey’s presidential developments mark two processes. First, reinstating the conflict around the position of political Islam. Second, a post-Western foreign policy.
IR Theory: Problem-Solving Theory Versus Critical Theory?
There are political stakes in our theoretical choices. Critical theory seeks to enable the transformation of things, problem-solving theory – to keep things working.
EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations: A New Trend in International Relations
In the context of an emerging multipolar world order, the European Union needs to engage with its Chinese and African counterparts in terms of a mutual exchange.
War on Terror Redux? No Thanks
War on terror will never be won. America and its allies must intervene militarily against Islamic militant groups and support a vision of politics they want to prevail.
China’s Response to a Post-Pacificist Japan
Although escalating tensions with Japan is not desirable, the Asian security order has changed in ways that should cause China to reconsider its strategy in the region.
The Fifteen-Sided War
US strategy for dealing with ISIL is widely criticised. However, it seems to be right for a war in which US enemies are its allies and allies are allies of its enemies.
Of Habermas and Hypocrisy: Discounting Nonviolence in Afghanistan’s Elections
The international community’s response rewarded the threat of violence, essentially derailing any hopes of achieving consolidated democracy in Afghanistan.
