ASEAN: Going It Alone? Not Quite

See Seng Tan • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Despite decades of confidence-building, distrust among ASEAN member states has remained high, limiting the extent of intraregional cooperation.

New Media and Latin American Violent Movements

W. Alejandro Sánchez and Kelly Morrison • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Social media have enabled Latin American violent movements to share their stories, whether this be the nobility of their causes or the extravagance of their lifestyles.

Contradictions Implicit in the Idea of Global Civil Society

Ricardo Villanueva • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Because the idea of Global Civil Society is in an embryonic stage, there are fundamental contradictions within its global, civil and societal dimensions.

‘Atheist Fundamentalists’? Characterising New Atheist Non-Belief

Stuart McAnulla • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

The new atheism offers a brand of anti-religious politics which self-consciously seeks to provoke strong reactions. But describing it as ‘fundamentalism’ is inaccurate.

Review – UNICEF: Global Governance That Works

Maggie Black • Jun 22 2014 • Features

Jolly’s analysis offers its readers a powerful understanding of the work that UNICEF has done on humanity-focused development and its unique nature within the UN system.

How Should We Study the History of International Thought?

Lucian M. Ashworth • Jun 20 2014 • Articles

An historical analysis of the rise and fall of ideas in IR shows a messy, idiosyncratic, and capricious process of multiple causes, ironies, and dilemmas.

Best Friends Forever? Classical Realism and Critical Theory

Felix Rösch • Jun 20 2014 • Articles

Contrary to common belief, classical realism and critical theory share an under-acknowledged historical and intellectual proximity.

Human Security at Twenty: Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission?

Giorgio Shani • Jun 19 2014 • Articles

The problem for human security is that it continues to be articulated in terms unintelligible to the majority of the subjects in whose name it speaks: humanity.

How to Create British Values

Phil Cole • Jun 18 2014 • Articles

There is nothing wrong with endorsing freedom, tolerance and respect for the law as values. But claiming that they emerge from a particular national identity is divisive.

New Atheism: The Politics of Unbelief

Steven Kettell • Jun 18 2014 • Articles

Since the middle of the previous decade, the dramatic rise to prominence of the ‘new atheism’ has kept issues of religion at the forefront of public debate.

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