Opinion – The Biden Administration Confronts Peak China
The challenge facing Biden will be to figure out how to deal with a China that, like Germany in 1914 and Japan in 1941, sees its predominance slipping away just as it was nearly within its grasp.
Geopolitics and the British Empire: Halford Mackinder’s Liberal Imperialism
The story of Halford Mackinder’s electoral misadventure helps illuminate the ideological context in which geopolitics emerged and the purposes to which it was put.
Subsidiarity: A Principle for Global Trade Governance?
If global governance is to be more than a proxy for a bargain between powerful states, the calibration associated with further codification seems inevitable.
Asset Revaluation and Beyond: Theorizing Climate Politics
We face radical uncertainty about whether the world will manage to decarbonize fast enough, and what political strategies can make such an outcome possible.
Subsidiarity and European Governance: Export and Investment Promotion Agencies
The concept of subsidiarity works as a compass steering the fluid transfer of authority in promotion systems with strong vertical dynamics.
Opinion – Southeast Asia: Global Rock Star in Waiting
Despite obvious weaknesses, this rising region merits a greater place both in global political economy and in our geographical imaginations, especially in these parlous times.
Teaching Fiction’s Futures: Pedagogy for Climate-Changed Global Politics
The value of using films and novels is that they give students opportunities to think imaginatively how we might deal with climate politics, organize with others, and eschew cynicism.
Putin and the Two Fears of the Prince
Putin is facing a simple reality: with every additional month in office, he has more to lose and fewer ways out – providing fertile ground for high-intensity affective responses.
European Foreign Policy and the Realities of Subsidiarity
The cases of Libya, Iraq and Syria show the consequences of traditional power politics in Europe have closely aligned with US foreign policy and embedded in transatlantic networks.
What Benedict Anderson Doesn’t Understand about the Imagination
Let us accept that nations are imagined, but let us see if we can provide a better account of how imagination works. Rethinking the imagination, we have to rethink nationalism.
