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The purpose of this essay is to examine how feminist thought has evolved and informed global studies through the

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Compared to other aspects of African studies, much less has been written directly on African foreign policy formation or

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As this volume appears, a single century has elapsed since armies and navies first began to experiment with the

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Military alliances represent one of the most important forms of cooperation in the international system. Because of anarchy and

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Sovereignty is simultaneously one of the more revered and reviled concepts in international relations (IR). Long taken

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Artists – whether writers, painters, musicians, architects, sculptors, dramatists, dancers, or filmmakers – and artworks – whether poetry, literature,

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Within the field of International Relations (IR), as well as across all academic disciplines, scholars have increasingly focused on

Behavioralism is a paradigm that became predominant in American social sciences from the 1950s until well into the 1970s. Grounded

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Early in 1956 Hans Morgenthau wrote to Martin Wight, complimenting him on his recent BBC Radio lecture on

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The publication of Graham Allison’s “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis” (1969) and Essence of

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The high prominence of the concepts of “global economy” and “globalization” in academic and public discourse since the early

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The emergence to independence of a wave of new states in the 1960s and 1970s changed both the structure

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Armed conflict is a recurrent and destructive feature of international politics. Because citizens are eager to avoid it and

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International relations theory has given limited attention to the environment, a topic with broad implications for the study and

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The processes of “deepening” and “widening” within the European Union (EU) have resulted in the conflation of

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Civic engagement is the academic idea du jour. Its inclusion in most universities’ mission statements places it at

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The term “civil–military relations” refers broadly to the interaction between the armed force of a state as an institution,

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Civil war is a widespread and destructive phenomenon. Between 1945 and 1999 over 16 million people died directly as

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Over the past several decades, many countries have directly experienced the horrors of armed conflict, and no state is

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Classical geopolitics, put simply, is fundamentally concerned with the role that inter alia location and resources play in the