Review – Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis
Although there is much of value in this title, its attention to the usual suspects of big to medium powers should instead be focused on North Africa and the Middle East.
US Policy on the South and East China Seas: Is Underbalancing the Future’s Wave?
The US needs to set new patterns of behavior now so as to instantiate them, make them routine and hard to break in the future, no matter who is in the White House.
‘Warm Bodies’: A ZomRomCom Discourse on Counterinsurgency
The hit 2013 zombie movie ‘Warm Bodies’ offers a means of understanding counterinsurgency strategies, as well as a critique of such strategies.
LGBT Pride: Marching on the Front Lines
Pride events remain a critical moment of visibility of the LGBT movement. But the global movement will continue to progress and create new alliances for gaining equality.
Review – The Cuban Embargo
One of the few examples of a monograph on the US embargo of Cuba, this short and readable text helps us understand key internal dynamics which drive this policy.
Review – Debating Human Rights
Chong addresses the complexities of universal human rights and presents contemporary debates that are excellent springboard into the much contested rights discourse.
US Credibility in the Middle East and the Nuclear Deal with Iran
The US credibility in the Middle East depends on the successful implementation of policies to maintain regime stability and ensure the status quo of power in the region.
Review – US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion
This ready-to-use edited handbook provides a good and complete introduction to the history and evolution of US democracy promotion abroad.
US and Russia: Terrestrial Tensions and Extra-Terrestrial Cooperation
Despite diplomatic manoeuvring on Earth, scientific cooperative between Russia and the US continues in space yet affected by the machinations of terrestrial realpolitik.
The Strange Politics of 2016 US Foreign Policy
The center of US foreign policy is to the right of Obama post bin Laden and to the left of George W. Bush. That is where you will find the leading candidates for 2016.
