Articles

Great Power Management: English School Meets Governmentality?

Alexander Astrov • Feb 25 2016 • Articles

Various non-governmental agencies are identifying the sins of the world while leaving to the states the managerial task of actually addressing the problems.

Citizens Not Zombies: Rethinking Assumptions about US Religious Voters

John A. Rees • Feb 25 2016 • Articles

The habit of homogenising religious political behaviour only leads to sloppy thinking disconnected from the evidence of how really existing religious citizens act

The Outbreak of the Zika Virus and Reproductive Rights in Latin America

Marianna Leite • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

There has been a range of reactions to the Zika outbreak, the most alarming being the impairment of women’s reproductive rights and access to safe abortion services.

Technological Ambivalence and International Relations

Stefan Fritsch • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

Technology is linked to many key phenomena of international relations. Yet it has only recently been effectively incorporated into the study of IR.

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.

Anger, the Race for the Presidency and US Foreign Policy

Harvey M. Sapolsky • Feb 21 2016 • Articles

Trump’s lack of knowledge of foreign policy will draw the most attention for fear of him assuming command of America’s powerful and complex security apparatus.

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’.

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