This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China's ambitious Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere …

In 2012, the Australian historian Christopher Clark published The Sleepwalkers, a 700-page-
thick account of how the European great powers stumbled into the First World War. The book …

Contemporary economic coercion increasingly features the use of 'informal'sanctions—
government-directed disruption of international commerce that is not enshrined in official …

Extant neoclassical realist scholarship has identified a range of real-world factors (eg, state
capacity, interest group pressure, strategic culture, and leadership personality) that serve as …

This paper asks how political conditionality needs to be conceptualized and researched to
reflect global changes. It argues that a diversification of political conditionality “beyond aid” …

В 2014 г. страны Европейского союза, США и ряд других государств ввели
экономические санкции против России. Для противодействия санкциям необходимо …

The objective of the report is to qualitatively assess the effects of the economic sanctions
imposed by the EU and US against Russia following the annexation of Crimea and further …

If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead? In The Alternatives to War, James
Pattison considers the case for the alternatives to military action to address mass atrocities …

Starting almost ten years ago, stories about the flood of Chinese cash sloshing over the
world have been unending. The headlines announced “China buys up the world”(The …

This article focuses on one of the most fascinating features of contemporary Chinese foreign
policy, namely the use of economics as a tool of national power. This article seeks to provide …