Winston Peters says New Zealand foreign policy should address “the world as it is, not how we wish it would be”. But how viable is that really?
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Almost half of US ambassador jobs remain vacant. Meanwhile, political appointees are outnumbering career diplomats being put forward.
Facing an increasingly aggressive Russia and with equivocal commitment from the US, Nato faces a number of important challenges.
A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.
Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.
The leaders of Canada, France, India and Turkey are among those looking to leverage their ability to say ‘no’ to Washington.
Behind the difference looms the specter of Russia, which each side sees in increasingly opposing terms.
Overseas US military bases are integral to combat operations and can burnish the country’s image to advance its foreign policy goals.
Foreigners have been shaping Ghana’s built environment for centuries.
Controlling supply chains puts a country in a very powerful position.
NATO members have been divided before. But the war in Iran could prove particularly troublesome for an alliance founded at the beginning of the Cold War.
An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.
As new targets designed to help the EU economy work towards autonomy are unveiled, Europe’s “old growth” model and its R&D multinationals’ reliance on foreign markets come under review.
Europe is rattled by Trump’s approach to geopolitics but doesn’t seem able to produce an alternative vision.
A greater fail is hard to imagine.
So far, Australia’s response to the US and Israeli strikes on Iran has been ‘say nothing’. But this may not be a successful long-term approach.
Regime change has long proved tempting to large states. But it rarely goes to plan.
Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.
Pragmatic realism called for compromise when it came to Venezuela, but there is no reasonable explanation for an invasion of Greenland.
A world without a world order is a much greater problem for Europe than for any other economy of the world.
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Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Reader in European Politics, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Royal Danish Defence College
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Visiting Fellow, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in International Relations, Swansea University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University