Caballero-Anthony, Mely
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International Politics (The Hague)
As one of the more successful regional organisations in the world, ASEAN has been the driver of regional institution building in the Indo-Pacific. The key features in the ASEAN-led institutions are the informality of these arrangements and the stamp of the ASEAN way in regional processes dealing with security challenges. The article argues that des...
Cooper, Andrew F. Parlar Dal, Emel Cannon, Brendon
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International Politics (The Hague)
This special issue aims to offer empirical, qualitative and comparative insights into the waves of informality sweeping the globe and to decipher the nature and consequence of the proliferating dynamics of informal organizations. From a policy perspective, the special issue is motivated to delve into the operationalization of practices and outcomes...
Lai, Christina
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International Politics (The Hague)
The impacts of the novel coronavirus (hereafter COVID-19) pose one of the greatest crises of our generation. The policy decisions that the US and Chinese governments take will shape the current order of international relations, the global supply chain of medical supplies, and US–China relations. The COVID-19 crisis leads to the empirical puzzles: h...
Albertus, Rene W. Makoza, Frank
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International Politics (The Hague)
Over the last decade, there has been rapid growth in instant messaging platforms, e.g. WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram. Academic research on the use of instant messaging platforms is growing, but few studies have looked at the influence instant messaging could have on politics and the impact on world peace. Drawing on the Theory of Communication Ac...
Stuenkel, Oliver
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International Politics (The Hague)
Brazil's foreign policy strategy traditionally focused on formal international organizations and ways to strengthen its role in them, symbolized by efforts to become a permanent UN Security Council member, and by accelerating voting reform in the Bretton Woods institutions. These goals were underpinned by a notion that the institutions that are at ...
Garzon, Jorge F.
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International Politics (The Hague)
More than a decade has passed since an intense research interest in Regional Powers arose in IR. However, this original impetus has of late notoriously tailed off. This was in part the result of an unfavourable international environment but also, I argue, of an exhaustion of the programme’s conceptual and analytical framework as such. This can be s...
Lee, Carrie A.
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International Politics (The Hague)
Does political polarization impact decisions to go to war? This paper explores how differences in casualty sensitivity by political party in the USA may present different incentives to wartime leaders. Using three survey experiments, I assess the relationship between party, ideology, casualty sensitivity and support for war. Results indicate that c...
Cannon, Brendon J. Rossiter, Ash
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International Politics (The Hague)
Australia, India, Japan, and the US are coordinating security activities in the Indo-Pacific under the guise of the ‘Quad’, a highly informal intergovernmental organization that some observers describe as an embryonic military alliance. For others, it is a loose group amounting to little else. Cutting a path through this confusion, this article pos...
Friedrichs, Gordon M. Tama, Jordan
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International Politics (The Hague)
Polarization in the USA has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop “at the water’s edge,” as the old cliché goes. But key questions about the relationship between polarization and US foreign policy remain to be fully answered. To what extent are American ideas about foreign policy now pola...
Naylor, Tristen
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International Politics (The Hague)
This article examines the spread of informal practices from the G7 to the G20, analysing the implications of the G20’s adoption of six practices that have marked the G7 as a quintessential informal governance group. Drawing on archival documents, elite interviews, and embedded participant observation, the argument is made that the practices that ar...
