Articles

On Putin, Politics, and Popular Culture: An Interview with Alexander J. Motyl

Robert A. Saunders • Dec 8 2015 • Articles

Alexander J. Motyl discusses his new book, Vovochka, as well as politics, popular culture, and the subject of this satirical romp, Vladimir Putin.

Problems with Facts about Rohingya Statelessness

Nick Cheesman • Dec 8 2015 • Articles

Ironically, and tragically, the surpassing symbolic and juridical power of ‘national race’ identity is for the Rohingya at once their problem and their solution.

Karl Polanyi: Diagnosing Liberal Extremism

Gareth Dale • Dec 7 2015 • Articles

Polanyi’s The Great Transformation theorises grand historical trends without losing sight of the intersections between economic history, IR and social movements.

India and China in Southeast Asia: An Evolving Theatre of Competition?

Pankaj K Jha • Dec 7 2015 • Articles

The global order has become a matter of debate given the alternatives that are emerging such as the Asian Monetary Fund and the incremental evolution of BRICS.

Inching towards Independence? The Game of Cat and Mouse between Catalonia and Spain

Glen Duerr • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

Will Catalonia become an independent state, despite Madrid’s insistence that the territorial integrity of Spain is nonnegotiable?

The Implications of the Xi-Ma Meeting for China-Taiwan Relations

Sheryn Lee • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

Cross-Strait relations are merely one factor in the voting calculus of the Taiwanese electorate, and Beijing still does not formally recognise the existence of Taiwan.

The Women of Daesh: Thinking about a Decade of Research on Women, Gender, and Terrorism

Laura Sjoberg • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

So long as gender stereotypes rule our understandings of women’s participation in terrorism, those understandings will necessarily be partial.

What Next for the Rohingya in Myanmar? Suu Kyi’s Balancing Act after the Election

Mathew Davies • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

The muslim minority Rohingya have long been the targets of persecution from the local Buddhist majority, the military, and the central government.

The Rohingya, Genocide and a New Dawn for Myanmar

Andrew Fagan • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

Putting right the terrible suffering which has been systematically inflicted upon the Rohingya is going to require a great deal of political courage.

A Critical Review of the Concept of Middle Power

Dong-min Shin • Dec 4 2015 • Articles

Existing trends of middle power study are limited due to a tendency towards liberalist criteria and a lack of considerations of interactions with other entities.

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