Learning to Hate: New Russian Nationalism
Almost nobody today remembers Bernhard Rust. From May 1934 until May 1945, when he committed suicide, he was the Reichsminister of Science, Education and National...
Category : International Relations (Long Read)
International Relations (Long Read)
How Russia built its new narrative of war
On Friday, January 28, Eduard Basurin, defence spokesman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic appeared on the most watched TV station in Russia – Rossiya...
New Zealand’s Struggle for Strategic Identity
Abstract The recent announcement of a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America has highlighted New Zealand’s long-standing,...
#WavellReviews “Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China” by Steven P. Feldman
The book focuses on how “signs of pre-totalitarianism” are increasingly visible in the contemporary Chinese leadership through the role of ideology, intolerance of dissent, extra-legal...
Decolonising Professional Military Education
Decolonizing as a project and practice has generated renewed attention since the global Black Lives Matter protests’ demands for a far-reaching engagement with the structural...
Rethinking Capacity Building in Somalia
Political warfare is the logical application of Clausewitz’s doctrine in times of peace. In broadest definition, political warfare is the employment of all the means...
Understanding Russia’s Foreign Policy Through International Arms Sales
Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the post-Soviet Russian Federation has continued its inheritance of the mantle of second-biggest arms exporter country...
Turkish Delight; Syria and the beginning of the end.
The outcry across military, political, and regional sectors over President Trump’s decision to accept the Turkish campaign in northern Syria and withdraw the bulk of...
‘Fire for Effect’: Russia’s Growing Long Range Strike Capabilities
The Russian 2008 invasion of Georgia, 2014 assault on Ukraine, intervention in Syria, continuing provocative military exercises, and the use of a chemical weapon on...