Taking the insights of complexity theory and complex systems analysis seriously in IR will require a substantial “re-boot” of much of the discipline’s theoretical apparatus. This may form the next great debate in the discipline.
American sanctions against exporting smartphones and computers to Iran are not only violating civil liberties but also common sense.
During World War II, the Pacific Islands were an area of great power rivalry between the otherwise allied Britain and the United States The catalyst for this rivalry was the expansion of civil and military aviation.
Uzbekistan’s temporary membership within CSTO served mostly to hamper the organization’s significance, while simultaneously obtaining some military goods.
Sustainable commitments to African security and development from Nigeria as well as achievement of its national interest are not incompatible.
The original motivation for what has become the EU was for a lasting peace in Europe, in which no country would dominate the continent. Yet, the euro and large country nationalism have changed the EU into the vehicle to achieve that domination.
The collapse of the USSR ushered in the unipolar moment of IR and meant that traditional approaches to understanding the world immediately became antiquated, or did it?
The crisis in Mali, seems to be heading dramatically towards an eco-strategic-religious international power struggle in which the indigenous population may well become the first victim.
The strategic landscape in South East Asia is reordering. Southeast Asians and Americans must convince China that the “nine-dotted line” South China Sea is a bridge too far.
Since 2009 the U.S. Marines have deployed Female Engagement Teams as part of its COIN effort. How does this relate to the gendering of COIN?
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