This article analyses how Sweden has adapted to the worsened security situation in its vicinity following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and war Eastern Ukraine. The paper builds on policy research focused neoclassic realism small state strategies order explore the, broadly unknown, from 2009 been implemented practice since 2014, through what observers call “Hultqvist doctrine.” aim is b...

This article analyzes how Qatar strategically utilized its foreign policy to overcome the implications of 2017 Gulf crisis. Using neoclassical realism, it investigates ways in which used relations mitigate impact a crisis that barred from aerial, naval, and land corridors Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, henceforth referred as Quartet. The impacts are threefold. Starting macr...

The pervasiveness of Sino-US relations is profoundly reflected in many regions all over the world. As a wrestling field for various forces, Korean Peninsula has self-evident strategic value to China and United States, especially terms military security geostrategy. Due sophisticated environment Northeast Asia, it necessary make an in-depth analysis South Korea's diplomatic decision-making mecha...

Abstract The usefulness of ‘realism’ in explaining Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine has become a keenly contested debate not only International Relations but wider public intellectual discourse since the onset war February 2022. At centre this is punditry John J. Mearsheimer, prominent offensive realist who Professor at University Chicago. This article argues that although Mearsheimer indeed...

This article aims to analyze the first Socialist Realism poetry collection of Maksym Rylsky “The Sign Scales” which was written after poet’s six-months imprisonment in 1931. Also, this investigation outlines strategies articulation Rylsky’s trauma forced transition Realist, as well ways expressing himself works a Neoclassical poet. demonstrates ability balance allowed and desired topics. has tw...

The objectives of this article are twofold. First, it seeks to posit Jokowi’s foreign and security policies in the broader historical context Indonesian policymaking. Throughout history, Indonesia’s responses its external environment, as manifested policies, have been significantly influenced by a range domestic factors including leaders’ personality his/her attitude international politics. Bui...

Within the last 50 years, the Brazilian share of South American power has increased from one‐third to one‐half of the overall material capabilities in the region. Such a significant change in the regional power structure cannot have gone unnoticed by Brazil’s neighbors. The article addresses the main question related to South American unipolarity (1985–2014): Why have most countries i...

In this paper we introduce a new spatio-temporal methodology for biosurveillance entitled the Repeated Two-sample Rank (RTR) procedure. It is designed to sequentially incorporate information from individual observations and thus can operate on data in real-time as it arrives into an automated biosurveillance system. In addition, upon a signal of a possible outbreak, the methodology suggests a w...