the article aims to analyze the syria crisis management pattern by the great powers within the uni-multipolar system while using the structural realism assumptions. according to the structural realism logic, the change of structure in the international system will lead to the distortion of processes in the international arena, all of which in turn will be an impetus for the great powers to modi...

The fragmentation of the Internet, which has replaced information globalization, is becoming a new reality. Digital technologies and Internet are field geopolitical contradictions struggle for leadership between great powers. Cyber diplomacy, includes range issues using ICT to achieve foreign policy goals state, as well problematic subject areas international relations arising in connection wit...

Set amidst growing global challenges and great power politics, this article asks how middle powers might best promote collective action. Adopting a historical approach, it explores four case studies on multilateralism in (1) post-1974 UN New International Economic Order; (2) post-1989 Bretton Woods institutions; (3) post-1992 European Union expansion; (4) post-2003 South- South cooperation. The...

Along with many others of my generation at the Yale School of Medicine and the New Haven Hospital, I owe a great debt to Grover Powers as an inspiring teacher, friend, and benefactor. The invitation to give the Grover Powers lecture at Yale had a special emotional significance, therefore, and it is with a sense of great privilege that I address you this afternoon. I do not consider the primary ...

This fascinating book by Paul Kennedy, a professor of history at Yale University, is about the changing balance of power in the past 500 years. The book explains the interaction between economics & strategy and relates military conflicts to economic progress. As the author puts it, “Wealth is usually needed to underpin military power and military power is usually needed to acquire and protect w...