Trade regimes of the late 19th century and post-War era shared a common root in liberal economic theory, but fostered opposing policies on government intervention in domestic markets.
Weak institutions, norms, and domestic regimes play key roles in explaining the lack of success of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in sustaining collaboration.
It is the possibility of terrist groups and rogue states acquiring nuclear weapons that force the existing nuclear powers to retain overwhelming nuclear capabilities.
The moral standing and credibility of the US and UK have weakened following Iraq, thus negatively impacting their ability to build international commitment to the R2P principle.
While the EU has achieved successes in promoting democracy in its immediate neighbourhood, its normative foreign policy has been less successful within a global context.
An independent Scotland is unlikely to have the financial security or the resources required to develop and maintain the broad national security and defence that the SNP publicises.
No commodity has such importance for the future of world politics as oil. From a largely commercial activity, international trade in oil has become a source of east-west tensions, north-south negotiations, and considerable disagreement within the West.
The current re-balancing of the Asia-Pacific is being driven by the shifting nature of the power ratio between the US and China, and by definition an equilibrium will eventually arise.
Constraints on the foreign policy of the US administration do exist and are most frequently faced by a President by domestic sources. Of these, the most significant constraints are those of the Congress and public opinion.
On February 11, 1945, Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, then in conclave at Yalta, signed an agreement for disposing of Far Eastern questions.
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