Articles

The Inaugural Address: Trump’s Nationalist Turn

Dinusha Panditaratne • Jan 27 2017 • Articles

Trump’s inaugural address unambiguously reiterated his earlier statements on foreign policy to end what mainstream US politics regards as American leadership in the world.

Brexit Impact on European Armaments Cooperation: A Win-Win Situation

Antonio Calcara • Jan 26 2017 • Articles

As far as European armaments cooperation is concerned, the most likely scenario after Brexit is “business as usual”.

Making Science and Technology Work for All

Jebamalai Vinanchiarchi • Jan 24 2017 • Articles

If we are unable to spread the benefits of technology-driven growth among people and empower them in the development process, there will be growth without development.

Raj Kapoor and India’s Foremost Cinematic Soft Power Breakthrough

Anubhav Roy • Jan 23 2017 • Articles

Soft power has fast matured into a sine qua non of international political conduct. Awara inadvertently became soft power, facilitating Soviet trust of India.

UK-France Relations after Brexit

Christopher Hill • Jan 22 2017 • Articles

Britain has a strong interest in staying in the European foreign policy club.

Mainstream Film and the Middle East

Patricia Sohn • Jan 21 2017 • Articles

A recent trend in film-making is bringing to Western audiences a more grounded Middle East.

Crossings and Candles: A Reflection on the Discipline of International Relations

Peter Vale • Jan 21 2017 • Articles

There is a paradox which stalks the discipline of IR: as it speaks of peace, the principle of sovereignty, which is at the centre of its world view, looks out upon messy – and often very violent – social relationships.

Managing Global Security beyond ‘Pax Americana’

Harvey M. Sapolsky • Jan 21 2017 • Articles

The rivalry of superpowers that we saw in the 20th century was a certain kind of world order. The hubris of one rich and powerful nation, the USA, is another – and one that is likely to end soon.

The Memes of Our Lives, or How the Internet Shapes Reality in the Current Year

Sergey Armeyskov • Jan 19 2017 • Articles

Memes are much more than just funny (or not) pictures and gifs flooding the Internet every day. They are strange occasions of synchronicity.

The Postcolonial Perspective: Why We Need to Decolonize Norms

Charlotte Epstein • Jan 19 2017 • Articles

Normation, normalization and nomos shift the focus from treating a norm as given to considering its initial constitution, to account for the form that a norm takes.

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