He sketched out three dominant
approaches: realism, liberalism, and an updated form of idealism called "constructivism."
One World, Rival Theories - 2 views
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Realism focuses on the shifting distribution of power among states.
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Liberalism highlights the rising number of democracies and the turbulence of democratic transitions.
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Night of the Living Wonks - 1 views
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The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses also poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world. If the dead begin to rise from the grave and attack the living, what thinking would -- or should -- guide the human response?
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For our purposes, a zombie is defined as a reanimated being occupying a human corpse, with a strong desire to eat human flesh
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Because they can spread across borders and threaten states and civilizations, these zombies should command the attention of scholars and policymakers.
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Scholars Online | Brown University - 0 views
On the UN and war in Gaza - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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President Mahmoud Abbas made no such call to the secretary general, but a group of distinguished scholars and NGOs told him in an open letter that he should either stand for law and justice or resign.
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Over the last few decades, Israel has disregarded hundreds of resolutions, "censuring", "deploring", "urging against", "recommending against", or "condemning" its attacks, settlements, deportations, occupation, etc.
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In the jargon of UN diplomacy, it seems that a resolution that "urges" means "we aren't happy but won't move a finger"; "deplores", means "we don't approve, but you're free to continue with your mischief"; "condemns" means "we're very unhappy but won't do anything about it, nada"; and, "cease" means "if you don't stop we'll remind you if someone reminds us the next time around."
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