This article reviews three recent books critical of America's new “imperial” foreign policy, examines whether the United States can properly be compared to empires of the past, and identifies three aspects of contemporary ...

The anarchy assumption is based on the premise that there is no overarching central authority to govern states interaction and has long been a core assumption of the discipline of international relations. This dissertation ...

An overemphasis on the tensions between the United States and Britain in the Middle East in the 1950s tends to obscure the fact that there also existed a close collaboration between them on the intelligence level. The aim ...

This collection of essays reviews the politico-military relationship between Britain and France between the two World Wars. As well as examining the relationship between the two nations' armed services, the book's contributors ...

This paper compares the soft power capital and public diplomacy strategies of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. The premise is that Taiwan's international status and the absence of formal diplomatic recognition ...

This article considers Patricia Owens' Between War and Politics in the light of its important critique of political moralism. For Owens, following Arendt, the instrumental use of violence in the political domain is dangerous ...

There are two notable discrepancies in The Anarchical Society: Bull claims that he does not canvass any solution to the problems that humankind faces, yet this is precisely what he does; and contrary to what the book’s ...