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Recruiting New Analysts and Editors
- 13:08
- ByRadim Dragomaca
- Uncategorized
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The St Andrews Foreign Affairs Review will be on holiday until mid-September 2013, although guest submissions are welcome and there will be occasional articles from our outgoing staff over the summer. We are also accepting applications for Analyst and Editor positions for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Foreign Affairs Review [...]
Kenneth Waltz: 1924-2013
- 11:41
- ByLiliane Stadler
- Features
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Kenneth Waltz, one of the most prominent theorists of international relations of the post-war period, passed away earlier this week, aged 88. Waltz is known primarily for his contributions to the development of structural realism or neo-realism and for his publications of Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis [...]
Terrorism: Keep Calm and Carry On
- 16:25
- ByJan Vacula
- Americas
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At home I have a book about September 11th, 2001 called “Never Again”. The book itself is not as interesting as its title: Never Again. This vague, yet quite powerful catchphrase best characterises America’s understanding of homeland security in the post-9/11 era. The notion that we must, by all means [...]
Mashing Mexico’s Monopolies
- 16:24
- ByJames Penn
- Americas
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The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa described Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) as the ‘perfect dictatorship’; an exquisite balancing act of entrenched special interests. Much like Mexico under Porfirio Díaz, who ruled between 1876 and 1911, the PRI ruled for 71 years through a highly effective mix of [...]
The Davids versus the Goliaths: China Bullies Nepal
- 16:12
- ByHailey Lernihan
- Asia Pacific
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The rise of self-immolations by Tibetans against Chinese rule is igniting a human rights dilemma in neighbouring countries. A trip to Nepal in 2010 transplanted me into a rabbit hole, where the unlikely partnership of civil unrest came hand in hand with progressive culture. Embroiled in a civil war and [...]
Mother Africa
- 10:45
- ByAngus Millar
- Africa,africa
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Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, is somewhat of a rarity. Along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia, she is one of only two female African heads of state. Banda and Sirleaf are together the global face of African women. But despite this feat winning her international recognition, Banda is [...]

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