Tag: International Relations Theory

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Dialogues

Missing Black Voices and the Pan-African Ideal: Interview with Dr. Ubba Kodero

Often appearing as case studies for poverty, development, and conflict in the field of international relations, Africa is rarely depicted as a region with extensive agency.…

September 3, 2024

Human Rights & Development

Martial Indigeneity: Deconstructing “Decolonization” in International Relations

Constructivists wrongly portray the Indigenous as ultrasocial people Many claim that decolonizing International Relations (IR) requires moving past mainstream theories,…

September 18, 2023

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Understanding Iran Review

William R. Polk. Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ah-madinejad. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 247 pp. .…

July 26, 2013

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Regional Integration Studies

The academic study of regional integration is scattered amongst different disciplines. Political scientists have a longstanding interest in regional integration but historians,…

July 26, 2013

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The Implications of Mandates in International Cyber Affairs

Creating an international cyber governance and security regime faces two critical challenges: jurisdiction-shopping by nations for friendly venues to discuss and promote their…

March 23, 2013

Conflict & Security
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Confidence-Building Measures and the Future of the Global Information Infrastructure

Creating confidence-building measures in the information sphere has become a major foreign policy priority for many states.1 Confidence-building measures and other collaborative…

March 23, 2013

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Why the United States is not Destined to Decline: An Interview with Dr. Robert Lieber

GJIA: Dr. Lieber, could you please elaborate a bit on the argument you make in your book about why America’s decline is not inevitable as some scholars suggest? RL: The…

February 26, 2013

Global Governance
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It’s Time to Revise How We Talk About Revisionist Powers

There is a conceptual problem in ascribing the term revisionist to describe the respective foreign policy goals to international actors, such as Napoleonic France, modern Iran,…

October 29, 2012

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Counterpoint: Nukes for Peace, A Risky Game to Play

Hanft agreed with Waltz’s theory that the imposition of the threat of nuclear weapons has prevented nations from acting against military provocations. States prioritize their…

February 7, 2012