The rebalancing by the United States towards the South Pacific is less about containment and is more about competitive engagement in the region.
States & Global Governance
The lack of democracy associated with the decision-making process to drill Block ITT has fuelled a high degree of currently ongoing civil discontent in Ecuador.
New guidelines for determining the applicability of international humanitarian law to United Nations peace operations are both necessary and urgent.
The Internet has had a positive impact on the provision of the normative good of democratic self-determination and participation in the Russian Federation.
Increasing economic interdependence between states and the emerging multipolar world order limit the United States in world politics.
The news media has significant power as an intermediary between a state’s foreign policy apparatus and a state’s polis.
The Central Security and Defence Policy attempted to centralise the decision-making process on foreign policy for E.U. members, but a more unified Union is essential.
The gendered framing of female Syrian rebels, prevalent in media sources, de-legitimises the political reasoning behind their individual decisions to be involved.
R2P’s power lies in its potential, as an emerging norm, to shift state attitudes to mass atrocity crimes to a legal commitment to protect at risk people around the world.
Despite the fact that grand narratives inevitably advantage, disadvantage, include, and exclude, scholars should remember that the mind must still be decolonised.
Historical animosity has been a major factor in Sino–Japanese tensions, but strategic regional objectives remain their primary motivator.