More: Diplomacy
US-Russia Redux: The Problem with Intellectual Insincerity
There are numerous intellectual sources, from think tanks to governmental agencies, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the...
What does it mean to be an emerging power?
This might be a tricky question to ask nowadays, but there are theories that help us understand better the role of emerging powers in...
America’s Lost Generation: Russian ‘Expertise’ within Generation X
2015 is starting to look and sound and feel an awful lot like 1965. If you find yourself sitting at home wondering how 50...
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order
Stuenkel, Oliver.The BRICS and the Future of Global Order. 1st ed. Lexington Books, 2015. 213pp. In a world in which there is an ever-growing...
NATO and the Russians: Can NATO be Diplomatically Relevant?
One of the biggest obstacles in understanding Russian foreign policy of late for NATO is that it still seems a bit too tied to...
Kazakhstan between stability and reforms
Announced in March, the early presidential election in Kazakhstan has become a debate about the results reached during the past years, the actual problems...
War, Peace, and the Geopolitics of a Multipolar World
The international order is akin to the science fiction character Dr. Who—it periodically is destroyed, only to reemerge in an altered form. Certain core...
What happened to Brazil’s Foreign Policy during Dilma Rousseff’s first mandate?
The end of the Cold War imposed new dynamics to the world. International Relations no longer have the ideological bias from the Cold War...
Mongolia: dancing between the bear and the dragon
Since the establishment of a democracy in Mongolia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign interests have attempted to reassert control over the...
Minsk Is The World’s New Diplomatic Capital
Perhaps you've never traveled to southwestern Ohio. But you've probably heard of the Dayton accords, the 1995 agreement that ended the Bosnian war. ...