Game-based Learning and Intelligence Analysis: Current Trends and Future Prospects
Games have always taught many skills required of an intelligence analyst. What has changed is the advent of video games and their ability to command the attention of the people playing them.
“I’m Mad as Hell…”: Brazilian Protests in Comparative Perspective
The ‘Vinegar Revolution’ is an expression of rage against power, corruption, and unfairness that lacks specific form or targets and ultimately is likely to fail to produce any change.
International Relations as Historical Political Theory
Linking History to Political Theory, with an international bridge, gathers deep and important questions, which form an intellectual and academic pursuit greater than the sum of its parts.
The European Union’s Next Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Prize Committee appears to have missed an opportunity to identify what is most distinctive about the EU and its contribution to “fraternity among nations” – its dispute settlement system.
Germany, the Euro and the Euro Crisis
Germany must assist the crisis-ridden countries in revitalizing their economies. Without the support of economically strong nations, these countries will be unable to solve their economic or public debt problems.
The English School as Global Crossroads: From Methodological Eclecticism to Cultural Pluralism
The English School exists where positivists and post-positivists often fear to tread: at the intersections between power, law and idea(l)s, order and justice, humanity and community, history and the present.
Counterinsurgency: The Graduate Level of War or Pure Hokum?
The US Army’s counterinsurgency manual calls COIN the “graduate level of war.” But, the idea that enlightened soldiers were required to win a war is hokum.
Lost in Translation? Importing the English School to America
Robert Murray’s edited collection ‘System, Society and the World’ illustrates the value of a pluralist approach under the umbrella of English School research.
Regional International Societies, the Polysemy of Institutions and Global International Society
The regional agenda of the English School has so far neglected the polysemy of institutions within international society, which in turn relies on a distinction between norms and rules.
UN Sanctions and Conflict
The automatic dismissal of sanctions as pointless and ineffective obscures a basic fact: sanctions are only as good as the efforts of member states to give them effect.
