It is the selective nature of sanctions that make them a political weapon against countries that refuse to buckle down to western leadership.
The figure of the networked young citizen, politically engaged through a transnational public sphere, is compelling, but other models may come to be more significant.
An elite political compact, based around external support for meaningless elections, is not the only solution to the problems ahead in Afghanistan.
Should Clinton become president, the international community should beware. Her brand of interventionist liberalism will be toxic for the Middle East and for the west.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will most likely be elected as the next president of Turkey. If not, expect to see progress on the Kurdish peace process from the AKP government.
The amount of leverage the threat of Brexit has for the UK depends not so much on what the UK contributes to the EU but about how valued that contribution is by the EU.
In looking at the national security state entertainment complex, one can get to the core of the security and pop culture nexus in a more-than-representational way.
Development agencies have started to engage more with the political nature of development. However the nature of politics is that what is ‘right’ is always contestable.
To govern a country in transition that is facing several internal problems, stability is needed and could be reached by a deal between the two biggest parties.
Theories of war and violence in IR depend on assumptions about the relationship between bodies, subjectivity, and violence that are often more implicit than explicit.
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