Articles

Setting the Scene for Crisis

Dylan Kissane • Apr 5 2013 • Articles

This week marks the beginning of a three-class-long Crisis Simulation. Through these simulations, students can learn about the complexity of international security and the difficulty of managing crises.

The Rootedness of Inequality

Kathleen Cavanaugh • Apr 4 2013 • Articles

Violence against women and the societal attitudes that often provide the conditions which condone such acts cannot be parked solely within the developing world.

Globalizing Walls

Francis A. Beer and G. Robert Boynton • Apr 3 2013 • Articles

The walls in news stories are metaphors of community and division. They mix geography and history. They carry material and mythical meanings for the societies on either side, and for emerging global culture.

Feminists Theorize International Political Economy

Kate Bedford and Shirin M. Rai • Mar 30 2013 • Articles

Feminist IPE has long been characterized by critical, theoretically rich, and methodogically radical grounded research and theorization, and this is a key source of its most important analytic insights.

Obama and the Syrian Civil War

Mark N. Katz • Mar 29 2013 • Articles

Increased US involvement may not bring about a quick, clean end to Syrian conflict. But, the limited involvement that Obama has recently been indicating will certainly not do so.

Africanising the BRICS Agenda: Indications from Durban

Siphamandla Zondi • Mar 26 2013 • Articles

Hoping to mould Africa and the south as the new geopolitical centre, South Africa has attempted to sell the next BRICS Summit as an African summit.

Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Identity Question in the Catholic Church

Daniel D. Trifan • Mar 26 2013 • Articles

It is important to understand the larger issues implicit within the controversy caused by Pius XII’s failure to condemn the Holocaust, such as the ongoing search for identity in the Church.

Waltz, Wight and Our Study of World Politics

A.C. McKeil • Mar 23 2013 • Articles

Waltz and Wight addressed important questions, both for scholars, practitioners and society at large. While not entirely successful in solving them, their works continue to inspire our thinking today.

On the Democratic and Demographic Transitions

Tim Dyson • Mar 22 2013 • Articles

Research on the determinants of democracy has overlooked the role of demographic factors. Yet, no other variable is more closely related to a country’s democratic status than its median age.

The Game of Thrones and Popular Understandings of International Relations

Stephen Saideman • Mar 22 2013 • Articles

The joy of Game of Thrones is that George R.R. Martin’s world is complex enough that people can read into it what they want. There are plenty of opportunities to apply IR theory to it.

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