15 Books Challenge (August 2021 to December 2022)
Over the next year-and-a-half I intend to read 15 classics and contemporary books in International Relations and Political Science broadly. I will share my brief reviews of these books (no…
New Research on Democratic Peace Theory Showcases Gender Differences in War Preference
By Bhaso Ndzendze One of the most empirically-backed theories in international relations scholarship is the observation that democratic countries have never gone to war with each other. Named the democratic…
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Recent Events in East Asia and the Pacific
Taiwan air force jets “drove away” a Chinese fighter plane that briefly entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, reporting the third intrusion in a…
Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations Thesis: An Overview
By Bhaso Ndzendze Samuel Huntington’s article ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ published in 1993 in Foreign Affairs and later developed into a book. A response to Francis Fukuyama’s The End of…
Gramsci’s Concept of the Organic Intellectual
By Bhaso Ndzendze The Nature of Organic Intellectuals In ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ of his Prison Notebooks (the 2032-paged volume written during his tenure in prison under the Fascist…
Visualising Ethiopia’s Economic Leadership (and Challenges) in the Horn of Africa
By Bhaso Ndzendze The Horn of Africa has historically been one of the world’s most unstable regions, with internal strife, secessionism, interstate war, terrorism and piracy dominating the region for…
Chinese Imports from ESwatini Volatile Around FOCAC Summit Years (But Exports Stable)
By Bhaso Ndzendze The Kingdom of Eswatini is the only African country to not have relations with China, as the country maintains its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. Elsewhere (and in…
IR Scholars and Political Scientists Should Not Be Intimidated By Artificial Intelligence
By Bhaso Ndzendze Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the definitive features of the world of tomorrow. Indeed, it already dominates areas within our field. As such, IR scholars and…
Can these 6 worldwide Google search trends predict the 2020 US presidential election?
By Bhaso Ndzendze Whilst international observers are commonly deployed in fragile or new democracies in the developing world, elections in the developed world are viewed from outside, partially out of…