Both the Soviet Union and the United States played an important role in facilitating the rise of radical Islamism during their Cold War rivalry.
As the study of globalisation evolves, gender perspectives act as a reminder that economic developments are not distinct from real people who make real choices.
Even if international politics granted a political union between the two Koreas, the domestic conditions in South Korea cannot sustain the successful implementation of a reunification.
NATO’s intervention was widely welcomed for addressing the plight of Kosovar Albanians. However, the methods chosen were flawed and did not meet the criteria of proportionality.
Regional and international missions must have adequate equipment, a strong mandate, and sufficient funds in order to have a chance at influencing conflict resolution in Africa.
Only the combined use of ontological, decisional and conjunctural approaches can provide an adequate, multi-layered explanation for why the Soviet Union collapsed.
Illegal Chinese fishing in the Yellow Sea is a long-standing source of tension between China and both Koreas. Systemic trilateral cooperation is the most viable solution.
Though not without limitations, social constructivism remains one of the most useful theories in examining the Arab Spring as a response to social forces and a globalization of norms.
After the demise of the USSR, Russia struggled to reshape its identity and was unable to accept the new independent states in its neighbourhood, influencing its distinct foreign policy.
Realism, taking states as rationally acting units of analysis, fails to adequately account for US foreign policy toward Latin America after the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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