The Indonesian National Armed Forces has exploited the rise of Islamic extremism to intrude in civilian affairs and enhance its own material interests.
Democratic backslide involves both the degradation of social development and democratic institutions. South Korea is experiencing the former, but not the latter.
Analysing differences in social policy between NZ and the UK, which implemented similar economic policies 1984-1990, requires an ideationally focused critical lens.
The essay establishes the causational relation, or the lack thereof, between failed states and narco-terrorism; re-framing narco-terrorism’s ontology, and epistemology.
Japan’s response to the BRI is not monolithic, and the Sino-Japanese infrastructure rivalry in Southeast Asia is more geostrategic than it is economic.
Indigenous peoples’ reality remains one of refusing to be mourned as (near-)extinct, refusing to be written out of history, and refusing to relinquish to a capitalist ideology.
Nuclear weapons and human rights coexist in the form of a double game. Commitments to both differ across states, but security is often given precedence over rights.
For migration, the EU fails to be the normative, liberal power – instead it promotes its interests and creates a gap between rhetoric on migration and harsh practice.
The maintenance of US hegemony versus Russia and China contributes significantly to the state of global security: a loss of position would likely have a negative impact.
In the context of democratic stagnation among new democracies, the author explores the features and negative consequences of neo-patrimonialism in Nigeria.
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