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Realpolitik is a term derived from German. It refers to a politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Historically, many political [...]

Many of the key issues of our turbulent age are presented in this issue of IJWP. It contains hints of the outline of how a post-Westphalian, post-bipolar world is shaping [...]

The pleasure of being in Rome is greatly enhanced by the honor of addressing this most renowned forum, where so many distinguished persons have presented papers in the past thirty [...]

THE NEW RUSSIAN STATE CREATED after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 is neither a simple continuation of its legal Soviet predecessor nor of the former Russian [...]

I recall how [Hitler] would have films shown in the Reich Chancellory about London burning, about the sea of fire over Warsaw, about exploding convoys, and [I remember] the kind [...]

WHEN THE BOMBS STARTED FALLING IN Afghanistan in October 2001, a relatively small number of Afghans could get out--no more than 200,000. Pakistan and Iran sealed their borders and the [...]

Introduction SANCTIONS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY THE INTERRUPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS, diplomacy, and/or economic relations (Losman, 1979). Economic sanctions have become an increasingly common tool of diplomacy since the end of the [...]

THE EXPECTATIONS WERE MIXED when Sweden and Finland joined the Eu in 1995. On one hand, it was expected that the two small Nordic states would bring policies that arc [...]

The formal study of international relations endeavors to describe, explain, and, ideally, predict global events. While descriptions can be direct, explanations tend toward controversy and invite intense debate. Predictions are [...]

Bob Graham is a United States senator and chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a body that provides legislative oversight for the intelligence agencies of the US [...]

Globalization implies global social and political change. Irrespective of whether one identifies globalization as primarily driven by economics or as a cultural phenomenon occurring in the context of technological change [...]

Aesthetic identity seeks to aid the nonidentical, which in reality is repressed by reality's compulsion to identity. --Theodor Adorno One of the central aims of the recent critical turn in [...]

The Republic of the Marshall Islands coasted into the new millennium on a wave of change that brought with it a new government, high expectations, and hope for the future. [...]

Summary THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENED THE RACISM CONFERENCE AS THE GLOBAL FORUM in which member states would at last commit to remedying and ultimately eliminating racism and related violations. (1) [...]

Political analysis of gridlock and legislative stalemate has not differentiated between foreign and domestic policy. Foreign policy is widely considered different from domestic policy, with less conflict and greater cooperation between the branches. The author offers explanations for gridlock that focus on conditions related to coalition building within Congress and between the branches. It is hypothesized that gridlock in foreign policy increases under divided government. Other important indicators of foreign policy gridlock include ideological differences between the two chambers of Congress and between the two political parties as well as the ideological cohesiveness of the two parties. An examination of the significant, consequential, seriously considered foreign policy legislation that failed to pass since 1947 supports the coalition model. When indicators suggest the ability to build coalitions is high, legislative gridlock in foreign policy is reduced., The failure of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in October 1999 highlights the degree of partisan conflict that existed between President Clinton and the Republican majority in Congress. Observers argued [...]

Simply put, our post-war institutions were built for an inter-national world, but we now live in a global world. Kofi Annan There may have been a time when both the [...]

The swift and heartfelt solidarity with the United States demonstrated by the European allies after the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon on September 11 came as a [...]

After a hiatus of almost twenty-four years, India startled the world in May 1998 by resuming nuclear testing at a time when the international community solemnly expressed a desire through [...]

RICHARD J. PAYNE (*) CASSANDRA R. VENEY (**) ABSTRACT The United Nation's acceptance of the People's Republic of China's 'One China Policy' forced Taiwan to pursue a more vigorous policy [...]

The improvement in Russian-American relations is one of the few positive factors in the muddled picture of international relations today. Russian president Vladimir Putin's support for the American struggle against [...]

'Peacekeeping' is known in American political jargon as a third-rail issue, to be touched only with great caution. In fact, though little has been said about the issue recently, we [...]

TURKEY'S GEOSTRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE During the last fifty years strategic considerations have been the most salient factor in determining U.S. relations with Turkey. Countries like Greece or Israel can negotiate with [...]

The Islamic Republic of Iran has survived for over two decades. Among other challenges, it has had to overcome a punishing 95-month war with neighboring Iraq, the active hostility of [...]

Current U.S.-U.N. policy regarding Iraq has failed and has largely lost credibility. It is widely viewed internationally as reflecting U.S. (and, to a lesser degree, British) insistence on maintaining a [...]

PASCAL BONIFACE teaches political science at the University of Paris. His most recent book is The Will to Powerlessness. Soccer is fast becoming a powerful force in the world of [...]

In 1967, five Southeast Asian states created the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN took shape as a grouping of anti-Communist states within the context of the cold war. [...]

On 8-9 July 1997, leaders of NATO nations gathered in Madrid for a meeting that was to alter the structure and direction of the alliance. By the conclusion of the [...]

Those unhappy with the Middle East policies of the United States often insist that those policies are a product of domestic politics rather than the result of sober calculation concerning [...]

Introduction Canada established official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of Albania on September 10, 1987. Although Canada had recognized Albania in 1959, relations between the two countries had been [...]

THE DEATH OF A SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT STATE The coming apart of Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1992 has been referred to variously as the 'fall,' the 'disintegration,' the 'collapse,' and the [...]

Commended by the WCC central committee in September 1996 to the member churches for further study and reflection in preparation for the WCCs eighth assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe. At this [...]

Since 1945 - and the gradual 'decolonization' of its empire - Britain has played a key role in shaping the Third World to suit its own commercial and political objectives. Recently-released official documents reveal that a prime goal of successive UK governments has been to ensure 'economic' access to, and control over, the resources of ex-colonies and other Third World countries. To that end, Britain has used its military, political and economic power in support of political elements in those countries who are favourable to the West - regardless of the implications for human rights, democracy or peoples' welfare., It is a widely-held assumption that Britain's foreign policy since the end of the Second World War (and indeed the policy of Western countries in general) is guided as much [...]

IN THE spring of 2001 Andrew Grove, the chairman of Intel, made a remarkable statement. Any conflict in or around the Taiwan Strait that resulted in a break in trade, [...]

Who today is not an internationalist? Those concerned with the prospects for American economic prosperity have no doubts: foreign trade, financial services, and investment will be the bread and butter [...]

Turning world affairs into a morality play is an old American trope. 'With God's help,' declared one senator during a debate occasioned by some particularly terrible episode of the Sino-Japanese [...]

President Clinton assumed office with a determination to redirect the domestic economy and an instinct for continuity in foreign policy. That, at any rate, is how his political posture was [...]

Morris, Aldon, and Carol McClura Mueller, eds. 1992. Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press. Nau, Henry. 1993. 'Identity and International Politics.' Presented at the annual meeting [...]

For America, the initial round of post-Cold War analysis and introspection has drawn to a close. The recent presidential election results validated Bill Clinton's central thesis of the primacy of [...]

IRAN AND IRAQ loom larger than ever in Russian-American relations. At a time when the number of issues on which Moscow and Washington disagree is dwindling, these two are still [...]

THE fallout from a Zimbabwean presidential election blighted by state orchestrated repression and riddled with malpractices will be most keenly felt within the Southern African region itself, not least by [...]

In almost every presidential election since World War II, differences between the two parties on major foreign-policy issues have played an important, if not decisive, role in determining the outcome. [...]