With half of all Australia in lockdown, there is perhaps no more pressing time to consider some of the key dynamics affecting Australia’s Covid-response. In the nation’s worst affected states, New South Wales (NSW), South Australia, Queensland and Victoria, a hard-and-fast style lockdown typifies Australia’s ‘circuit breaker’ response to the…
1. What’s Wrong, America? This review considers two recent works on U.S. political economy – Goliath by Matt Stoller and The New Class War by Michael Lind – as examples of a backward looking, communal resistance to capitalist globalization. Both books proceed by means of advocating deeply ingrained American identities as antidotes to neoliberal hegemony. Like Donald Trump’s Make American…
After almost 16 years in office and at least a decade as Europe’s unquestioned leader, Angela Merkel prepares to step down as German Chancellor in the fall. Throughout her tenure,…
On May 23, Belarusian air traffic control rerouted Ryanair Flight 4978 from its original destination of Vilnius, Lithuania, to Minsk, Belarus. The authorities in Minsk claimed that they had received…
On Monday the 20th of January Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó met with U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Bogota. Pompeo reiterated U.S support for Guaidó asserting that America…
As a reminder for the Italian confused and polycentric coalition, the Prime Minister Mario Draghi has lately reiterated the pressure Brussels is putting on Rome to spend efficiently the resources…
The writing of this article coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty and the Thirtieth anniversary of the 1991 Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection in the Antarctic. To…
The War in Afghanistan known to be the “forever war” or considered the longest war the US has ever fought is set to end on 31st August 2021 (Borger, 2021)…
The Arctic Ocean has been making headlines in recent days. On May 20th, 2021 the heads of diplomacy of the member States of the Arctic Council met in Reykjavik, Iceland.…
Carl von Clausewitz joined the Prussian army as an infantryman in 1793 at the age of 13. His early experiences in soldiering would not only set the course of his…
We are two months into the Biden administration, on the heals of a Trump administration that saw its first month in office include the signing of Executive Order 13769 -…
Going into 2021, Italy was on the verge of becoming a pariah within the European Union (EU). Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government was widely seen as an untrustworthy and unstable…
Maritime security is often seen through traditional security perspectives that draw from the pre-Cold War world. Such dated perspectives tend to focus primarily on traditional security matters like piracy. However,…
Has Donald Trump sounded the death knell for US ‘imperialism’ in the Middle East? Donald Trump is not the author of a new book for the history of the United…
As Merkel prepares to leave politics and with the European elections around the corner, there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding European politics. Far right parties have recently gained considerable…
Warwick’s International Relations Society and Warwick’s Jewish Israeli Society are excited to announce their speaker event taking place on the 22nd of February 2019 at 6pm in S0.21. Lian Najami…
Ezra Friedman discusses the significance of the fall of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Warwick’s Pugwash Student Society, along with Warwick’s International Relations Society, are delighted to host their…