Russian Society and the Conflict in Ukraine: Masses, Elites and Identity
This article was originally published by E-International Relations (E-IR) on 26 April 2017. This is an excerpt from Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two-Country Perspective – an E-IR Edited...
View ArticleNew Balkan Turbulence Challenges Europe
This article was originally published by International Crisis Group on 28 April 2017. The Balkans was best known for minority problems. Today, the most bitter conflicts are between parties that appeal...
View ArticleIsraeli-Palestinian Security Cooperation: What Next?
This article was originally published by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) on 5 May 2017. Until recently, Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation was seen as a unique ‘success...
View ArticleThe Macedonian Crisis – A failure of EU Conflict Management?
This article was originally published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) on 5 May 2017. In the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy, there is a chapter...
View ArticleBook Review: The Central African Republic’s Vanishing State
This article was originally published by the Global Observatory of the International Peace Institute (IPI) on 4 May 2017. The Central African Republic was most recently in the news when armed...
View ArticleMiddle Powers in International Relations
This article was originally published by E-International Relations (E-IR) on 8 May 2017. Realism’s theoretical dominance in International Relations (IR) – especially its focus on the power of...
View ArticleIran’s Elections: What You Need to Know
This article was originally published by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on 12 May 2017. On May 19, the Islamic Republic of Iran holds presidential elections, the first following the...
View ArticleTo Resolve the Syrian Crisis, Partition Is Necessary
This article was originally published by YaleGlobal Online on 9 May 2017. Russia has proposed de-escalation zones, and the international community should step up with an impartial partition plan for...
View ArticleThe ARF Moves forward on Cybersecurity
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 16 May 2017. The Wannacry virus that attacked computers around the world last week is one more reminder of the growing threat posed by...
View ArticleDo Realists Need to Check Their Idealism?
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 16 May 2017. In this series we often focus on what academic studies can tell policy makers, but these days I find myself...
View ArticleTurkey and Russia: Aggrieved Nativism Par Excellence
This article was originally published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program on 10 May 2017. Turkey and Russia have recently both turned to an aggrieved nativism that...
View ArticleAlgerian Stability Could Fall with Oil Price
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 18 May 2017. The low global oil prices being experienced since mid-2014 have had a serious impact on oil-dependent states across the...
View ArticlePolicy Response to Low Fertility in China: Too Little, Too Late?
This article was originally published by the East-West Center in April 2017. Introduction In 1970, Chinese women were having an average of nearly six children each. Only nine years later, this figure...
View ArticleHow State Restrictions are Reshaping Civic Space Around the World
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 19 May 2017. In April 2017, the Russian Ministry of Justice designated the Kola Ecological Center, a small environmental group in...
View ArticleThe Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe under Trump
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 23 May 2017. Growing tension on the Korean Peninsula has returned the unimaginable terror of nuclear war to the American public...
View ArticleThe Beginning(s) and End(s) of the International Order
This article was originally published by E-International Relations on 22 May 2017. These days, the pulse of the world’s political health is running fast. The general prognosis is terminal, the end of...
View ArticleThe Future of War is in Cities – The Study of War Should Follow Suit
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 23 May 2017. On March 17th, a US airstrike killed nearly 300 people in the densely populated area of western Mosul. This deadly...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Intra-elite Conflict and the Relevance for Global Security
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 24 May 2017. ‘This third-generation Kim already holds the titles of supreme leader, first secretary of the party, chairman of the military...
View ArticleRouhani’s Second Mandate: What to Expect?
This article was originally published by E-International Relations on 25 May 2017. The twentieth presidential election since the 1979 Iranian revolution has been characterized by an impressive voter...
View ArticleRussia Used a Two-Year-Old Video and an ‘Alternative’ Swedish Group to...
This article was published by the World Policy Institute on 18 May 2017. A video that Moscow used as key piece of evidence that its ally President Bashar al-Assad had nothing to do with the chemical...
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