Articles

Opinion – COVID-19’s Wider Impact on Mexican Society

Franco Laguna Correa • May 28 2021 • Articles

The vaccination campaign, and ultimately Covid-19 itself, have been used as an attempt to legitimize the populist governing style of the president.

Urbicide and the Subject of Politics: Notes on the Syrian Civil War

Gabriel Garroum • May 27 2021 • Articles

Spatial justice should entail a reconstruction model that restores the relationship of inhabitants to places so that return does not become alienation.

Opinion – China and the US in Israel: The Lucrative Versus the Indispensable?

Nicholas Lyall and Roie Yellinek • May 27 2021 • Articles

The economic value of Israel’s Chinese links are not sufficient to match the comprehensive nature of the US-Israeli partnership.

Opinion – Decolonizing Development Will Take More than Moral Imperative

Laura Bond • May 26 2021 • Articles

Making daily, unglamourous investments to build capacity, shift power, and give credit where credit is due may be the only way the mountain of colonization ever moves.

Understanding the ‘Us Vs Them’ Division Through the Notion of Responsibility

Xin Zhao • May 25 2021 • Articles

State actors strategically construct the notion of responsibility in controversial international areas aiming to legitimize their international stances and behaviors with/against others.

Military Honor in the Twenty-First Century: Some Contemporary Challenges

Francisco Lobo • May 25 2021 • Articles

Military honor is a concept that elicits an interpretive attitude and therefore can evolve to accommodate new contents and meanings.

Provoking to Avoid War: North Korea’s Hybrid Security Strategies

Sico van der Meer • May 22 2021 • Articles

An important feature of North Korea’s hybrid strategy is that it is continuously adapting to ever-changing circumstances, and as such it has not become outdated.

Local and International Actors Influencing Inter-Communal Relations in Rakhine State

Htet Paing Oo • May 22 2021 • Articles

Local and international actors have historically influenced trends and dynamics of inter-communal relations in the multi-ethnic Rakhine State of Myanmar.

The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: A Critique

Ahmed M. Abozaid • May 20 2021 • Articles

We live in a global system that constantly pushes one towards silencing non-Western voices and rendering their contributions invisible.

Opinion – Former China-Premier Wen Jiabao’s Censored Essay

Klaus Heinrich Raditio • May 20 2021 • Articles

An alternative reading suggests that Wen believes that liberal universal values are worth fighting for – even in the context of China’s current repressive system.

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