Articles

The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism in light of the AKP’s Education Policy

Çağlar Ezikoğlu • Feb 10 2018 • Articles

One of the most important results of this strategy is to transform the educational policy of Turkey under AKP rule in the light of anti-intellectualism.

Realism and Peaceful Change

Anders Wivel • Feb 9 2018 • Articles

Realism may sometimes bring ‘peace’, but it is always conditioned by power and serving the interests of some actors whilst going against the interests of others.

The Reluctant Realist: Jimmy Carter and Iran

Robert W. Murray and Stephen McGlinchey • Feb 9 2018 • Articles

Carter’s approach toward Iran demonstrates that he became more concerned with perpetuating the strategy of containment than following through on his liberal tendencies.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies: Insights from and for IR

Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn • Feb 9 2018 • Articles

Ongoing investigation is required, to further uncover the limits, shifts, and interre­lationships between contemporary forms of governance by, with, and of blockchains.

China’s Military Modernisation

Layla Dawood • Feb 8 2018 • Articles

There is no evidence that internal balancing will not change unipolarity. Future research should explore why internal balancing has been slow in the unipolar system.

India and Pakistan: Formalizing the 2003 Ceasefire Agreement

Saeed Ahmed Rid • Feb 8 2018 • Articles

If the 2003 ceasefire between India and Pakistan is formalised with clear rules and regulations it should reduce the chances of future ceasefire violations.

The Impact of White Supremacy on US Foreign Policy towards Africa

Christopher Keith Johnson • Feb 7 2018 • Articles

America’s failure to confront its racial history, specifically white supremacy, will prevent it from making the most appropriate decisions about aid or policy,

Geopolitics of the Lebanese Crisis: Economic and Energy Perspectives

Vrushal T. Ghoble • Feb 7 2018 • Articles

Effective governance in Lebanon provided fewer opportunities for regional actors to intervene in the country keeping it aloof from the power struggle in the region.

The Veil as a Political Act

Elham Manea • Feb 7 2018 • Articles

When women try to take the veil off, they learn that free choice only applies to choosing to wear the headscarf. No free choice is the other way around.

Contract Slavery? On the Political Economy of Domestic Work in Lebanon

Martin Beck • Feb 6 2018 • Articles

The gender dimension of the political economy of foreign domestic work in Lebanon manifests itself in the first instance in an exploitative maternalistic system.

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