Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations,” though fraught with polarizing opinions, still has relevance to contemporary policies and politics.
Nationalism does not determine an anti-colonial movement’s success because it does not capture the transnational and intersectional nature of colonial legacies.
The emergence of China’s capitalist system and its “Chinese characteristics” can be understood as an outcome of uneven and combined development.
Jimmy Carter ignored human rights abuses perpetuated by the Pinochet regime and only responded if the threat was to do with containing the communist threat in Chile.
A look into the history and political philosophy of China explains its current authoritarian tendencies.
A re-examination of Bull’s international society shows how the Middle Ages, while lacking modern states, maintained international organisation with the Catholic Church.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 can be considered as Islamic, yet we must recognize the socioeconomic conditions and existing political movements which fostered change.
Colonialist metanarratives regarding postcolonial subjects are often instrumentalised by them to advance their own agenda.
The concept of the pluriverse is introduced to reconcile the theorisation of Soviet communism and its downfall with the situated experiences of Soviet citizens.
Constructivism better captures the agency states have via its understanding of state identity as a variable constructed in societies and through interstate interactions.
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