How can we set limits to state sovereignty and power without lapsing into a form of utopianism, directed towards an end point, that entails the paternalistic and imperialistic policies of cosmopolitanism?
The causes of Africa’s failed states must be researched within those states. External relations of dependency and neocolonialism have aggravated their situation but are not the main causes.
1979 was a watershed for US-Iranian relations. Thereafter, a politics of identity has shaped relations, obstructing normalisation efforts.
The humanitarian and democratic war motives that partly contributed to the illegal and bloody Iraq war are symptomatic of the old normative contradictions of international society.
The strong will ultimately capitalise on advantages to maximize their interests, disregarding the limited counter-strategies available to the weak.
A strategic explanatory account of mass killing is of extensive relevance, but evidently this human tragedy cannot be exclusively understood as a strategic consequence.
Sun Tzu has much to tell us about how wars are and should be fought today, while Clausewitz’ contribution to the discussion of contemporary conflicts is more limited.
Claiming that wars occur because there is nothing to prevent them is like saying that a sick man died because he did not take any medication—and not because of his illness.
Groupthink represents a crucial aspect of US foreign policy and is a concept that scholars must not neglect when analysing this topic.
By assessing the constructivist elements within the theoretical tradition of the English School, it is possible to discern if it should be seen as protoconstructivist or as an autonomous theory.
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