Publications

This paper addresses the US Senate granting President Obama Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which gives him executive negotiating power on trade deals, in June 2015 as well as what this meas for the T...chevron_right

This commentary examines how the fight against the so-called Islamic State is causing demographic shifts in the Middle East and thus complicating Kurdish aspirations for independence. In the last case...chevron_right

This paper argues that the P5+1-Iran nuclear deal agreed on in July 2015 will not lead to a significant rapprochement between Iran and the US, but only to the opportunity for a modest improvement in r...chevron_right

This commentary discusses the debt crisis in Greece following the 'no' vote on July 5, 2015 to a deal offered by the country's creditors. The authors argue that the result of the vote cannot be interp...chevron_right

This article looks at a report by the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the UN Human Rights Council published on June 22, 2015 which examined the July-August 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. The authors co...chevron_right

This paper reflects on Latvia’s first-time presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2015 arguing that the country has proved a small administration can achieve concrete results in a sh...chevron_right

This paper discusses whether a Grexit (Greece's exit from the eurozone) and the country's subsequent return to the drachma would be of benefit to the country's economy. The authors argue that, should ...chevron_right

This paper reflects on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh in early June 2015. The author argues that the finalization of the Indo-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement, a slew of i...chevron_right

This paper reflects on the implications of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh in July 2015 in order to improve economic relations between the two countries. The author discusse...chevron_right

This paper summarizes the results of a Mediation Support Network meeting that took place in Chiapas, Mexico in November 2014. The paper’s authors particularly 1) stress the need to include the optimum...chevron_right

This article examines the status of the peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), particularly in the wake of the recently collapsed ceasefire...chevron_right

This bulletin looks at China's Silk Road (SR) Economic Belt plan, together with the 21st century Maritime Silk Road concept, and what these initiatives say about Beijing’s main economic interests. The...chevron_right

Social constructivism is an important part of international relations (IR) theory, but does it help the discipline stake out reasonably well-defined subject matter and generate concepts that are unique to the field? Nicholas Onuf has his doubts. He sees more “disciplinary machinery” than substance in IR studies.chevron_right

This commentary examines the Slovakian government's ambiguous foreign policy stance towards Russia. More specifically, it looks at how Prime Minister Robert Fico's government accepted EU sanctions tar...chevron_right

This bulletin examines the history of US-South Korea civil nuclear cooperation as well as the new so-called 123 Agreement, that was established between the two countries on this issue on June 15, 2015...chevron_right