Articles

What if the Hybrid Warfare/Threat Concept Was Simply Meant to Make Us Think?

Dan G. Cox • Feb 13 2013 • Articles

Hybrid warfare is yielding much academic discourse. Yet as the concept currently stands, it is too unbounded conceptually to drive foreign policy or effective military practice.

The Crescent and the Cross: Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations Twenty Years On

Syed Mansoob Murshed • Feb 13 2013 • Articles

Examining Huntington’s thesis over the past 20 years, Murshed argues conflict occurs primarily within rather than between states and that these conflicts never evolve in a socio-economic vacuum.

Where in the World

Dylan Kissane • Feb 13 2013 • Articles

In refreshing the POL 210 course at CEFAM, a series of geography quizzes were added to the pedagogical menu. In the quizes, it became obvious that some students knew very little about where some states were in relation to others.

Maximizing Prudence in International Relations

Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman • Feb 12 2013 • Articles

Like other forms of prudence, maxims are tools at hand that can help political actors feel their way through the thickets of international relations and point to constructive ways of being in world politics.

The Rape Case in India: Evidence for the Globalisation of Human Rights?

Vinodh Jaichand • Feb 11 2013 • Articles

India’s negative publicity points to a state that has failed to protect the rights of its citizens. That is a notoriety that a global economic power should work to avoid.

The Delhi Rape Case: Rethinking Feminism and Violence Against Women

Swati Parashar • Feb 11 2013 • Articles

Western feminism needs the support of Indian feminists to reconsider its third wave obsession with diversity and to rethink its politics and scholarship around violence against women.

Twenty Years after Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’

Jeffrey Haynes • Feb 10 2013 • Articles

Huntington’s work, although flawed in various respects, perfectly captured the zeitgeist at the end of the Cold War and encapsulated the hopes and fears of globalisation.

The Indian Gang-Rape Case: Do Human Rights Go Global?

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko • Feb 9 2013 • Articles

Rather than being a proof of globalized human rights, the rape scandal in India should be used as a lesson about the effectiveness and usefulness of the media in their struggle for human rights.

Culture, Security, Identity: A Blog from Newcastle University

CSI Newcastle • Feb 9 2013 • Articles

e-IR’s latest blog will feature contributors from Newcastle University’s politics department, who will engage with the themes of culture, security and identity.

Tunisian Democratization: Between Challenges and Opportunities

Francesco Cavatorta • Feb 7 2013 • Articles

The future state of Tunisian politics is difficult to predict, but it is clear that addressing pressing socio-economic problems is vital for the success of the transition and for the reconciliation of society.

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