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The Crisis of Governance in Post-war Libya: The Legacy of Colonel Qaddafi
Posted on April 16, 2014In the aftermath of victory in the 2011 Libyan Civil War, the victorious rebels and the transitional government they put into place seemed destined to become an example for the ... -
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Foreign Policy: Aristotle’s Practical Science
Posted on April 15, 2014“So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, by that which a prudent man would use to ... -
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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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The World has lost a Hero
Posted on December 6, 2013South Africa has lost its father and the world has lost a hero. Nelson Mandela, aged 95, has passed away. His legacy transcends his country and era and is worth of ... -
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Kenneth Waltz: A Tribute
Posted on May 14, 2013Yesterday brought the sad news that one of the pioneering scholars of International Relations, Kenneth Waltz, had died at the age of 88, as a result of medical complications associated ... -
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Margaret Thatcher’s Carrot and Stick approach towards Apartheid
Posted on April 10, 2013This article was originally published in The Huffington Post Margaret Thatcher stirred up sentiments among many in the UK, but her foreign policy characterised by the Falklands War, the fall ...