Interview – Wojciech Lorenz
Wojciech Lorenz discusses the effect of the election of Donald Trump and events in Turkey on NATO, potential NATO enlargement and Poland’s current security situation.
Student Feature – Foreign Policy
A brief and accessible introduction to foreign policy, prerogative and key activity of the state.
The End Days of the World System? Before Armageddon the Long Nights of Ignorance
It is impossible to turn religious enquiry into a foreign policy brief or accord it much utilitarian use in foreign policy formulation as it allows no options for actions.
Diplomacy and the End of Foreign Policy as We Know It
The future global environment might depend less on the attractions of defining ‘rational actors’, and more on finding ways forward in much messier than before processes.
US and British Foreign Policy from One Regime Change to Another
The US sense of being a sole hegemonic superpower is under challenge, even as it pulls along the UK and allows it to think of their relationship as special.
Theories of Foreign Policy and International Relations
Diplomacy is not new. It has assumed various characteristics in the modern age, but the idea of sending emissaries to another state is old and was common to many cultures.
Interview – Joseph Chinyong Liow
Dr Chinyong Liow discusses the Trump administration’s strategy for East and Southeast Asia, growing conservatism in Indonesia, and the 50th anniversary of ASEAN.
Trump’s Dream and Tocqueville’s Nightmare
The current erosion of agency amongst citizens in the U.S. is bringing us closer than ever to Tocqueville’s cautions of the path to despotism
Review Feature – The Experts are Dead, Long Live the Experts!
Two new books, The Ideas Industry and The Death of Expertise, consider the role of experts in the current US political landscape but reach quite different conclusions.
Authoritarian Difussion and the Failure of the “Colour Revolutions” to Spread
Can the concept of “Authoritarian Difussion” explain the unsuccessful spread of the colour revolution and the repressive measures that illiberal regimes have taken after?
