International studies
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An Overstretched UAE Looks to Mend Ties With Turkey
This time last year, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey appeared to be on opposing sides of a range of…
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The Kremlin’s Strange Victory
Donald Trump wanted his July 2018 meeting in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to evoke memories of the…
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China Is Choking Civil Society at the United Nations
The Chinese government’s crackdown on freedom of expression, independent thought, and civil society now extends beyond its borders.
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Brexit and its Consequences
In this brief essay, I argue that the ‘Brexit’ vote is but the latest manifestation of popular dissatisfaction with the…
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Introduction: Studying Brexit’s causes and consequences
The choice made by voters in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union (EU) caused…
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Comparative Advantage in De-Globalisation: Brexit, America First and Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area
This paper examines the relevance of the theory of comparative advantage in the present realities of a world undergoing de-globalisation,…
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Network Connections and the Emergence of the Hub-and-Spokes Alliance System in East Asia
Why did the so-called hub-and-spokes alliance system emerge in East Asia after World War II instead of a multilateral alliance?
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Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order
The liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was flawed from the start and…
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China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons.
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The “End of History” 20 Years Later
The basic point—that liberal democracy is the final form of government—is still basically right. Obviously there are alternatives out there,…
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What Is Governance?
This commentary points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and…
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Why National Identity Matters
A long tradition dating back at least as far as Karl Marx sees political struggles as a reflection of economic…
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