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August 22, 2020

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…

June 22, 2020

American counties and cities named Moscow

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June 18, 2020

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…

June 3, 2020

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…

June 2, 2020

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…

June 1, 2020

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…

April 15, 2020

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…

April 15, 2020

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…

April 11, 2020

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…

March 20, 2020

Japan and COVID-19: Where’s the exponential outbreak?

By Global Politics Blog Reporter 20 March 2020 Japan was among the original countries outside of China itself to be hit by the coronavirus, but has emerged as one of…

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