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Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars

Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 120-133, Summer 2025.
Abstract This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security.
Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman
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At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self‐Defense Against Russia

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1460-1478, October 2024.
Abstract How do populations facing external aggression view the costs and benefits of self‐defense? In Western countries, war support has been shown to follow cost–benefit calculations, resembling the moral principle of proportionality. A categorical position, in contrast, means supporting self‐defense regardless of the costs.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett, Carl Müller‐Crepon   +2 more
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Why the next president should consider making offshore balancing their foreign policy default [PDF]

, 2016
Foreign policy experts John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt recently made a renewed call for the US to adopt an offshore balancing approach to its foreign policy.
Gallagher, Christine
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All Containment and No Engagement: Australia's Contemporary Policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 379-401, September 2024.
Australia's interactions with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), henceforth known as North Korea, have ebbed and flowed throughout their seventy‐five‐year history. In times of détente on the Korean Peninsula, Australia actively engaged North Korea and sought to facilitate its integration into the international system. However, during the
Jack D. Butcher
wiley   +1 more source

Goodbye Bismarck? : the foreign policy of contemporary Germany [PDF]

, 2008
This essay examines the foreign policy discourse in contemporary Germany. In reviewing a growing body of publications by German academics and foreign policy analysts, it identifies five schools of thought based on different worldviews, assumptions about ...
Hellmann, Gunther
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A Global Phenomenology of Whiteness: Turkey, Europe and Institutional Global Racism

Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 312-328, September 2024.
Abstract Contemporary international institutions are often discussed as part of a new liberal international order and a departure from colonial logics of the nineteenth century. While some have discussed the ongoing dynamics of race within international institutions, few have explored whiteness as the positionality embedded in such institutions.
Andrew Delatolla
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State Borrowing and Global Responsibilities

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 590-611, August 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ethics of state borrowing to fulfil global responsibilities. Although borrowing may appear attractive in the face of budgetary pressures and an increased number of crises in a changing global order, the article argues that borrowing to fulfil global responsibilities is generally morally problematic.
James Pattison
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Bargaining Practices: Negotiating the Kampala Compromise for the International Criminal Court [PDF]

, 2013
At the International Criminal Court\u27s (ICC) Review Conference in 2010, the ICC\u27s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) agreed upon a definition of the crime of aggression, jurisdictional conditions, and a mechanism for its entry into force (the Kampala
Weisbord, Noah
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The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021

Middle East Policy, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 67-82, Summer 2024.
Abstract Since the Gaza war erupted in October 2023, Israel's reactions have been met with criticism from a key friend: Russia. However, Moscow's public condemnation of the humanitarian crisis has not changed its material or normative policies toward Israel in other respects.
Chen Kertcher, Dima Course
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Intelligence in international society: An English school perspective on the ‘five eyes’

Global Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 223-233, May 2024.
Abstract Despite the recent prominence of intelligence in post‐Ukraine global policy, it is a Cinderella in international relations studies. Using English School (ES) theorisation, we locate intelligence within the constellation of primary and secondary institutions in international society.
Robert Schuett, John Williams
wiley   +1 more source