The Need for an English School Research Program
Until the practitioners of the English School begin to define precisely what an ES research program would look like, the School’s impact on international theory remains outside the mainstream.
Great Power Management: English School Meets Governmentality?
Whilst there is hardly any doubt as to the existence of four of the five major institutions of international society identified by Hedley Bull, this is not the case with the fifth institution: great power management.
On Separatism in Latin America
Despite the turmoil that Latin America has experienced in the past 50 years, a strong sense of nationalism is widespread throughout the region, making separatist violence less probable than in other areas of the world.
The Eternal Divide? History and International Relations
Social science and history form part of a single intellectual journey, one in which both are permanently in view and in which neither serves as the coloniser of the other.
Letta’s Government: Between the Italian Rock and the European Hard Place
There is widespread domestic consensus that Enrico Letta’s government is the only road that Italy can travel for now. How long it will survive Italian and European politics is another matter.
The Postcolonial/Public Intellectual
Seeking Europe’s affirmation of what counts as ‘philosophy’ or who counts as a ‘public intellectual’ matters less than pointing out that the standards used to measure who or what qualifies may never be met by postcolonial thought.
In the Footsteps of John XXIII: Pope Francis and the Embodiment of Vatican II
Pope Francis resembles Pope John XXIII more than any other pope of the past 50 years, and signs are positive he will be a shining example for interreligious dialogue and social justice.
The Coming of ‘Killer Robots’
Killer Robots are on the march, to use a military metaphor, and there is no going back. They are coming to a theatre of war near you, and they may arrive sooner than expected. Welcome to the future.
North Korea’s New Legacy Politics
North Korea’s future depends on how creatively it brings its sovereign heritage before the 1970s to the fore, and on how it can leave the past legacy politics of 1994–2011 behind.
Pope Francis: Radical and Conservative
In his actions on the world stage the conservatism of Pope Francis will overshadow his radicalism, but he has shown a radical side by taking the name of St. Francis of Assisi.
