Articles

Subsidiarity: A Principle for Global Trade Governance?

Günter Walzenbach • Mar 20 2021 • Articles

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

Matthew Paterson • Mar 19 2021 • Articles

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

Maximilian Bossdorf • Mar 19 2021 • Articles

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

Peter A. Coclanis • Mar 18 2021 • Articles

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

Bryant William Sculos • Mar 18 2021 • Articles

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

Harald Edinger • Mar 17 2021 • Articles

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

Jörg Michael Dostal • Mar 17 2021 • Articles

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

Erik Ringmar • Mar 16 2021 • Articles

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.

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Growing North-South Divide

Winnie M. Makau • Mar 15 2021 • Articles

Pandemics, while indiscriminate in infections and direct consequence, have historically shown to discriminate against the most vulnerable in the short and long term.

Enhancing Creativity and Communication Skills Through IR Signature Pedagogies

IR teachers should help improve creativity, written and oral skills in a landscape where graduates will have to show their expertise to get a job.

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