Robert May is a postgraduate Masters’s student in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is also the CEO of a non-profit multinational education provider (ABE) a member of the Royal Overseas League, a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, and a Friend of UNESCO.
War in Tigray: Can Reading Clausewitz Help Us Understand ‘New’ Civil Wars in Africa?
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…
Moralism and American Foreign Policy: Biden’s Greatest Challenge to Reviving U.S. Primacy
Abstract American hegemony has shaped world affairs for decades. But observers now anticipate a fundamental, system-changing shift to a post-American, multi-polar international order in which the co-ordinates of geopolitical power…
Is Globalization Dead?
Abstract Brexit, ‘America First’, and China’s resurgence are often presented as ‘crisis moments’ which invoke a morbid commentary on the demise of globalization, whilst ignoring the pathologies of rising inequality,…
Is War Inevitable Between the US and China?
Introduction Realism offers the pessimistic conclusion that in a Hobbesian world where; ‘everyone in a state of nature fears for his safety and is out to injure the other before…