Realist accounts of phronesis are misguided. Phronesis is not just prudence in the sense of a reasoned recognition of the limits of what can be done, but also an ethical virtue that involves reflection on means and ends.
Demands for legal changes are often an immediate response to issues such as the Delhi rape case. Yet, moderate successes are often useless if attitudes regarding women’s sexuality remain unchanged.
The spectacle of apocalyptic destruction and human failing continues in the parable of ecological collapse. Yet it is typical of the misrepresentation of collapse as it is studied by archaeologists.
Governments of all stripes pursue war-gaming, simulations and contingency planning. So why not use Twitter to simulate crisis diplomacy? The potential pay-offs of such simulations make it necessary to try.
In multicultural Malaysia, the Malays are politically dominant, the Chinese have economic influence and the Indians have neither. The marginalisation of Indians in Malaysia extends to every aspect of daily life.
Teaching international power to business students is a reminder that not only are business and IR majors different, but that there are also differences amongst the business majors in the politics classroom.
In 2012 Nigeria experienced some of the worst floods in living memory, yet efforts to address the problem have been limited by the dominance of a reactionary, rather than a proactive, narrative.
In creating states of nature, the postapocalyptic narrative acknowledges that we decide how to live together and the kinds of rules we might choose.
It is often said that IR has become a complex and diverse field of study. With this expansion has come unclear limits as to what does, or does not, fall within the parameters of the field.
The lack of communities in Japanese apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic genre fiction of the 2000s highlights the insecurities of male youth in contemporary Japanese society.
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