Regions

The Significance of the US War on Terror Policy for the Japan-US Relationship

Yuki Horiuchi • Apr 9 2016 • Essays

Japan’s participation in the War on Terror might have played an important role in making the Japan-U.S. relationship a global alliance.

Domestic Violence as Everyday Terrorism: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Dean Cooper-Cunningham • Apr 4 2016 • Essays

Seeing bride kidnapping and domestic violence as everyday terrorism unpacks the political nature of so-called “private” phenomena and how they reify patriarchal society.

US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East in the 1950s

Samuel Boyd • Apr 2 2016 • Essays

Eisenhower showed caution in his application of policy, displaying a level of understanding that only the greatest feeling of importance towards the region could explain.

Arms Control and Cooperative Security: A Regional Perspective

Ling Guo • Mar 31 2016 • Essays

Cooperative security is a feasible concept in a regional and even a global context, but its success is in varying degrees of progress and is still in ambiguous standing.

A Reassessment of the Munich Agreement

Clinton Ervin • Mar 26 2016 • Essays

The significance today of reassessing the 1938 Munich Agreement lies in the frequent uses of the terms Munich and Appeasemen” with regard to the Iranian nuclear program.

Can Non-Violent Resistance Be an Effective Strategy for Challenging State Power?

Madeleine Nyst • Mar 25 2016 • Essays

Examining the Arab Uprisings in 2011, the effectiveness of non-violent resistance movements for challenging state power is evinced.

Are Military Interventions Inevitably Doomed to Backfire?

Flamur Krasniqi • Mar 23 2016 • Essays

Military interventions are always liable to backfire and cause unintended harm to an intervening state on various grounds, such as ideological, political, and economic.

Transitional Justice in Cambodia–Too Little Too Late?

Emily Gleeson • Mar 22 2016 • Essays

Understanding the events and interests that led up to the creation of the ECCC gives insight into the current government’s attempts to achieve legitimacy.

Cooperation or Competition? External Support and Interrebel Dynamics

Christopher Rickard • Mar 20 2016 • Essays

Non-state armed groups who receive fungible resources, such as funding or weapons, are more likely to experience interrebel fighting and less likely to be in an alliance.

Does a ‘Global Jihad’ Phenomena Exist?

Carlos Rodriguez • Mar 16 2016 • Essays

Perhaps there is a ‘Global Jihad’, but not in the perverted form hijacked by political Islam as a kind of collective aggression against the West.

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