Articles

Metaphorically Speaking, ‘Where is the Politics?’: China, Japan, and the Voldemort Controversy

Kyle Grayson • Jan 13 2014 • Articles

As analysts of world politics, what should we make of the deployment of Voldemort by China and Japan in their ongoing diplomatic dispute?

What NSA Leaks Reveal about Ethics in America’s Intelligence Community

Michael Andregg • Jan 12 2014 • Articles

American intelligence community employees are devoted to the welfare of their countries and citizens, but they must deal with bureaucracies that often punish people who act on ethical insights.

The Effect of Conspiracy Theories on the Central Intelligence Agency

Kathryn Olmsted • Jan 12 2014 • Articles

Conspiracy theories are seldom conducive to good policy-making, and they have harmed the reputation and reduced the power of U.S. government secret agencies, especially the CIA.

European Integration and Security Epistemic Communities

Mai’a K. Davis Cross • Jan 9 2014 • Articles

Cohesive epistemic communities are more likely to be persuasive diplomatic actors, achieving security goals that would have otherwise been very difficult if left to the member states alone.

The Potential of Social Network Analysis in Intelligence

Kristan J. Wheaton and Melonie K. Richey • Jan 9 2014 • Articles

Within its limits, SNA can be applied to identify individuals or organizations within a network, generate new leads and simulate flows of information or money throughout a network.

Buffeted not Busted: The UKUSA ‘Five-Eyes’ after Snowden

Adam D.M. Svendsen • Jan 8 2014 • Articles

UKUSA and the intelligence co-operation between the ‘Five-Eyes’ members can be best analysed as being ‘buffeted and not busted’ by the recent series of Snowden-related NSA leaks.

Can Legalism Avoid War in the South China Sea?

Timo Kivimäki • Jan 8 2014 • Articles

The focus of peace effort for the past decade in the region has been on a specific Code of Conduct, a set of norms that recognizes the rule of UNCLOS in the settlement of maritime territorial disputes. The more the disputes become a matter of legal norms, the less benefits could be achieved by means of dangerous military demonstrations.

Post-Development and the Practitioner

Christopher Keith Johnson • Jan 8 2014 • Articles

Post-development thinking interrogates the history, meaning, and motives of the development industry while forcing the development professional to change how they view the world.

China’s ADIZ in the East China Sea

Serafettin Yilmaz • Jan 8 2014 • Articles

China’s recently-established ADIZ has been met with a variety of responses from countries both near and far, all of which have strategic implications for the security and stability of the region.

‘Merkiavelli’ – European Politics in the Real World?

Günter Walzenbach • Jan 3 2014 • Articles

The term ‘Merkiavelli’ depicts the political affinity between Machiavelli’s Prince and Angela Merkel. This emerges due to opportunities created by the chaos of the global financial crisis and its repercussions on the Euro.

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