Foreign Policy

Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy Trends and Interactions with Native Americans

Seth Hopkins • Oct 31 2014 • Essays

Certain trends in American foreign policy can be better understood when seen as framed by the context of interactions with Native Americans

Post-Communist Transitions and Military Conflict in Asia

In China, Laos, and Vietnam, the move from planned to market-oriented economies has increased free trade and diminished levels of international conflict and hostility.

An Examination of Russia’s Foreign Policy Through The Clash of Civilizations

Matthew Rae • Oct 8 2014 • Essays

Russia’s actions of late are difficult to understand through traditional paradigms, but Huntington’s Clash of Civilization paradigm offers a holistic view of the crisis.

Unmasking China’s Assertive Behaviour in the Maritime Sphere

Fareed Amir • Sep 29 2014 • Essays

China’s assertive behaviour in the South China Sea (SCS) and East China Sea (ECS) is primarily motivated by nationalism and economic interests.

Does Free Trade Undermine International Rules Protecting the Environment?

Monica Mylordou • Sep 24 2014 • Essays

The WTO undermines international environmental rules. Yet, the WTO’s decisions comply with the mandates for which it operates which do not cover environmental protection.

Walter Mondale and the Recalibration of the Vice Presidency

Haley O'Shaughnessy • Sep 20 2014 • Essays

Mondale generated a new institutional model for the vice presidency, which expanded and strengthened the role, while leaving it accountable to the President.

Are Economic Sanctions a Viable Strategy for Coercing Another State?

Jon Regnart • Sep 6 2014 • Essays

Economic sanctions fail in most of their major ambitions, and their ethical justifications are based on a distorted form of consequentialist ethics.

Machiavelli on the Use of Immoral Means in Politics

Victoria Marcia Pereira-Ayuso • Aug 8 2014 • Essays

If a political prince’s primary purpose is to maintain his leadership, he must develop the capability of appropriately using immoral methods when necessary.
 

Non-Western Perspectives on Constitutional Supremacy

Sheena Singh • Aug 8 2014 • Essays

Greater flexibility, vulnerability, and uncertainty differentiate constitutional supremacy in non-Western countries such as Turkey and India from Western nations.

Victim-Politics and Post-Conflict Foreign Policy in Rwanda and Sri Lanka

Kithmina Hewage • Jul 24 2014 • Essays

Sri Lanka and Rwanda elicit a sense of victimhood upon which their respective foreign policies have been built.

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