Betwixt and Between: Bhutan‘s Royal Way to Democracy and Upcoming Challenges

Siegfried O. Wolf • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

The king must ensure more are incorporated in decision-making processes. If this fails, Bhutan will remain an exclusive business run by the elite rather than a democracy.

Interview – Emmanuel R. Goffi

E-International Relations • Feb 21 2016 • Features

Emmaneul Goffi discusses the impact drones are having on modern warfare, the centrality of a constructivist perspective to his work, and the myth of ‘supreme sacrifice’.

Making Textual Analysis More Inclusive

Terrell Carver • Feb 21 2016 • Articles

‘Text’ is now a ‘how to’ list for the construction of communicative objects. Text has inclusively followed its own transcendence as a matter of communicative practice.

Translation and Interpretation: The English School and IR Theory in China

Roger Epp • Feb 20 2016 • Articles

IR theory in the West has become parochial and stale. Therefore, it may need Chinese scholarship at least as much as the reverse is true.

A Bill to Clean the Planet’s Atmosphere and Carbon Negative Economic Growth

Graciela Chichilnisky • Feb 19 2016 • Articles

When there is a regime change it is always manifested by oscillation between the old and the new – there is no other way. And this is the volatility we are observing.

Gender and Countering Islamic State Radicalisation

Katherine E. Brown • Feb 18 2016 • Articles

The women targeted by counter-terrorism polices are denied politics, their agency is reduced to a lack of knowledge, and they are assumed to be rational but ‘misguided’.

Review – Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa

Stephen A. Emerson • Feb 18 2016 • Features

A valuable title that dissects and analyzes the complex phenomenon that is African terrorism and explains how certain state responses have been counter-productive.

What is it for? Assessing the South Korea-Japan Deal on the Comfort Women Issue

Yangmo Ku • Feb 18 2016 • Articles

The South Korean public believe their government made a humiliating deal with Japan. Thus, the comfort women issue continues as an impediment to reconciliation.

The English School and Humanitarian Intervention

Tim Dunne • Feb 17 2016 • Articles

Pragmatic humanitarian intervention is an attempt to ensure that R2P is aligned with a traditional pluralist conception of how key international institutions work.

Pluralism and International Society

Tom Keating • Feb 17 2016 • Articles

One of the distinguishing characteristics of international society is its attention to a plurality of states operating within a mutually recognised society.

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