African Wars and the Politics of Ivory
Involvement in poaching and profiting from the slaughter in Africa is widespread. Even if the resources exist to stop it, willpower is lacking – or political expediency overcomes conservation needs.
The Hegemony of the US Dollar
Important considerations – both governmental and financial – mean the end of the US dollar’s crucial role in the global financial system may not be as imminent as some are forecasting.
Crisis Diplomacy: How IR Students can Learn from Twitter
Twitter simulations create an opportunity for students to role-play alongside professionals and explore the pressing issues faced by the international community.
Setting the Scene for Crisis
This week marks the beginning of a three-class-long Crisis Simulation. Through these simulations, students can learn about the complexity of international security and the difficulty of managing crises.
The Rootedness of Inequality
Violence against women and the societal attitudes that often provide the conditions which condone such acts cannot be parked solely within the developing world.
Globalizing Walls
The walls in news stories are metaphors of community and division. They mix geography and history. They carry material and mythical meanings for the societies on either side, and for emerging global culture.
Feminists Theorize International Political Economy
Feminist IPE has long been characterized by critical, theoretically rich, and methodogically radical grounded research and theorization, and this is a key source of its most important analytic insights.
Obama and the Syrian Civil War
Increased US involvement may not bring about a quick, clean end to Syrian conflict. But, the limited involvement that Obama has recently been indicating will certainly not do so.
Africanising the BRICS Agenda: Indications from Durban
Hoping to mould Africa and the south as the new geopolitical centre, South Africa has attempted to sell the next BRICS Summit as an African summit.
Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Identity Question in the Catholic Church
It is important to understand the larger issues implicit within the controversy caused by Pius XII’s failure to condemn the Holocaust, such as the ongoing search for identity in the Church.
