American exceptionalism is not merely a static belief but a driving force in the evolution of U.S. foreign policy.
The divide stems from China and India’s respective national interests: China seeks greater global influence, while India deems BRI a looming threat to its sovereignty.
Incorporating a Constructivist lens and examining Strategic Culture is more useful in understanding Russia’s dual approach in the Arctic.
Feminist approaches in IR reveal a division between positivist ‘good girl’ theories and post-positivist ‘bad girl’ theories, with the former dominating global IR.
European states only support aspects of ESA that serve their objective interests—such as economic and security concerns—which are not produced by any strategic culture.
The neoliberal project has used sovereignty as a mechanism for producing and protecting class relations that favour the global capitalist elite.
Dutch F-16 donations to Ukraine were partly an international status-seeking act, a “good behavior” that gained the Netherlands prestige and saw Rutte become NATO Secretary General.
Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government’s control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny’s rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.
For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.
Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.
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