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What Does the Ukraine Crisis Tell Us About Economic Interdependence?
Posted on April 24, 2014One of the most fervently debated topics in International Relations is over whether or not economic interdependence decreases the likelihood of war. Intuitively, it seems obvious that two countries whose ... -
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Sanctions against Russia: Is financial prosperity more important than our values?
Posted on March 26, 2014The resemblance to 1914 and 1938 are evident. Russia, like Germany in 1914, feels encircled by potential adversaries. Moreover, Moscow is determined to protect ethnic Russians and Russian speakers outside ... -
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A new dawn for Anglo-German relations
Posted on March 13, 2014Dwarfed by the shadow of events in Eastern Europe, you’d be forgiven for having missed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the United Kingdom last month. Welcomed in relative luxury ... -
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Ukraine: Putin’s postmodern moment and the politics of truth
Posted on March 11, 2014“Two and two makes five,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his Notes from the Underground. Increasingly disillusioned in the 1860’s with western philosophy’s narratives of truth and progress, for Dostoevsky these ... -
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Obama’s Foreign Policy and Ukraine: Decoupling Security and Democracy
Posted on March 5, 2014“I don’t really even need George Kennan right now,” commented Barack Obama in a recent interview concerning his foreign policy strategy. The admission was a curious one. Not only because Kennan ... -
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When History Thickens: Ukraine and why its Revolution is in Danger
Posted on February 24, 2014Historical change is a curious phenomenon. Sometimes it occurs at a snail’s pace with years, decades elapsing before a crumbling autocracy finally gives way to a nascent democracy. Ask the people ... -
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Scottish isolation: Cameron’s strategy of dissuasion
Posted on February 9, 2014With the advent of the new year, analysts have been feverishly forecasting the political landscape for the coming twelve months. On the calendar of every expert worth his salt is ... -
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Britain’s 2014: no bang, all whimper
Posted on January 4, 2014Just before the country settled down for Christmas, two alarming reports made national headlines. The first suggested that the British Army is at risk of becoming a high-tech but ultimately ... -
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Football, War and the Christmas Truce of 1914
Posted on December 22, 2013In 2014 we are going to celebrate the football world cup and we will also commemorate the start of World War I. And, of course, Christmas is coming up as ... -
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Au revoir Franco-German (military) cooperation?
Posted on November 22, 2013July, 14th, 2013: 4800 soldiers march along the Champs-Élysées in Paris to celebrate the French National Day. Among them were 200 German soldiers – members of the Franco-German Brigade, accompanied ...