Can Bullets Kill Soft Power? The National Rifle Association as a Threa ...
Image Caption: Although most regard the National Rifle Association (NRA) as relevant and influential to domestic U.S. politics, the organization may in fact threaten the reputation of the United States as an international moral authority. Introduction […]
The End of War and Peace: The Thesis of Frédéric Gros and the Federa ...
Image Caption: 03/17/2018 – Army Patrol in Vila Kennedy (Rio de Janeiro-RJ). By Mauro Pimentel/Agence France-Presse[1] “The war as ‘armed, public and just conflict,’ slowly disappears, with its lies and its nobilities, its atrocities and its […]
Slovak Anxiety and Europeanisation: Ontological (In)security in Slovak ...
Image Caption: Former Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (right) has toed the line between arguments in favor of its place in the European Union and nationalist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that starkly contrasts with the position taken by […]
Reconciliation in Settler-Colonial States: A Study of the Political Ap ...
Image Caption: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologizes to the First Nations, the indigenous people who, for over one hundred years of settler-colonialism, suffered from family separation and abuse at the hand of colonial and post-colonial […]
First Place — On the Shores of Bab-el-Mandeb: Assessing China’s F ...
Image caption: U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Camp Lemonnier walk on the deck of the Chinese hospital ship, Ark Peace, in the Port of Djibouti, August 28, 2017. (Source) This essay was originally published in the […]
Featured Articles
Canada Revokes Aung San Suu Kyi’s Honorary Citizenship as the Horror ...
Image Caption: Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international pressure for her silence in response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and Canada has stripped her of her honorary citizenship in a symbolic move. After months of […]
With Rights Come Responsibilities: The Evolution of Rights, Sovereignt ...
Image Caption: Although many point to the Peace of Westphalia as the starting point for the modern framework relating individual rights with sovereignty in international law, the narrative is in fact more complicated and may require […]
Erendira Vanegas at “From Women’s Rights to Human Rights: ...
Image Caption: Erendira Vanegas spoke about much of her work with the New Haven-León Sister City Project at an event hosted by the Yale International Relations Association, touching upon key details about feminist history and social […]
Dissecting the Fault-lines of Ethno-political Violence in Asia: A Comp ...
Image Caption: Xinjiang Uyghur Muslims, unlike Thailand’s Patani Malays, undertook salient ethno-political action only at a time of a high perceived threat to their interests and of a low state capacity for repression. Introduction Several states […]
Abnormal: Why the Tanzanian Invasion of Uganda Was, and Was Not, a Hum ...
Image Caption: Idi Amin’s coup in 1978 of former Ugandan President Milton Obote was the first in a series of events that led to the 1978 Tanzanian invasion of Uganda. But was that invasion a humanitarian intervention? […]
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Canada Revokes Aung San Suu Kyi’s Hon ...
Image Caption: Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international pressure for her silence in response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and Canada has stripped her of her honorary …
With Rights Come Responsibilities: The ...
Image Caption: Although many point to the Peace of Westphalia as the starting point for the modern framework relating individual rights with sovereignty in international law, the narrative …
Book Reviews
Review: On Grand Strategy by John Lewis ...
John Lewis Gaddis’ most recent book certainly puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Strategy. It spans roughly 2,500 years of history and draws upon the works and deeds of individuals ranging …
Book Review: The Diffusion of Military ...
Summary In his book ‘The Diffusion of Military Power” Michael C. Horowitz presents an adoption-capacity theory that seeks to explain when and how states successfully adopt military technology and the adopted …
