Wallerstein’s focus is the modern capitalist world economy. He stresses that states can move up and down in such a system. Egypt and South Korea make interesting examples to apply his theory.
Evoking international law to legitimate their claims of sovereignty, China and Japan view the Senaku/Diaoyu Islands as having strategic importance in security, economics, and politics.
Secularism as an ideology can contain religion and allow the bifurcation of the state and the religious institution. However, it cannot battle religious extremism.
The BRICS today are undeniably concerned with creating multipolarity in a globalised world, but the extent to which historical conditions determine their foreign policies remains contested.
After the end of the Cold War, Washington envisioned American leadership in Europe as a means for stability, both for the future of Europe and for the international system.
The apparent threat from continued proliferation both within and outside the NPT framework remains a widely shared concern among all actors—from states to non-state actors.
If the international community maintains a positive role and domestic pushes for human rights are legitimised by international law, they could yet become universal.
Broad development remains elusive because it fails to challenge the rules of the ‘game’ enforced by neoliberal interests which cannot accommodate more adequate definitions of poverty.
Although they have been glossed over by certain myths and readjustments, the Three Great Debates did in fact take place and should not be academically dismissed.
The ethical theories of Margalit and Sen, who use deontological and capabilities approaches, shed light on the understudied phenomenon of ethical compromise in international affairs.
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