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This handbook offers an informative overview of different types of Marxism, though tends to conflate Marxism with Post-Marxism. http://dlvr.it/SJ8Y3j

An exclusive NATO expansion created lopsided gains, violating the strategic balance between Russia and the West. http://dlvr.it/SJ8CqB

Global history's dark heritage can be lightened by telling the shared history of peacemaking, rather than focusing on war. http://dlvr.it/SJ6kjq

The very conditions of existence need to be problematized to make way for alternative possibilities of theorizing and understanding environment and ecology. http://dlvr.it/SJ5qrj

The outpost metaphor became a principle for a range of civic activity to inspire the city to turn towards a brighter European future, away from its Soviet past. http://dlvr.it/SJ3n97

Both neorealism and the selectorate theory show that North Korea’s demand for nuclear weapons strongly correlates with a large US military presence in East Asia. http://dlvr.it/SHxN4L

Jews no longer must hide their nationality or religious preferences as they did in the USSR and have the tools, institutions, and resources to continue to preserve and develop their identity. http://dlvr.it/SHvT5k

While positivism has brought a sense of rigor and academic framework to study international politics, it obscures some crucial truths. http://dlvr.it/SHtspL

When discussing anxiety as the constitutive feature of society, we should be talking about something social and historical, rather than transhistorical and ontological, for a politically relevant approach. http://dlvr.it/SHtSDf

This book challenges disinformation and stereotypes of Ukraine which portray it as a regionally divided country with the military conflict as a ‘civil war’ between Russian and Ukrainian speakers. http://dlvr.it/SHnygR

In considering approaches to avert conflict, it may be useful to assess the legacy of President Ronald Reagan, whose administration stewarded the end of the first cold war. http://dlvr.it/SHd802

The scenario in Yemen in the midst of recent violence only draws more attention to the layers of complexity that have to be unfolded in order to resolve the conflict. http://dlvr.it/SHcsGF

The Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro elites, who are still rooted in their Soviet past, play a significant role in the development of independent Ukraine. http://dlvr.it/SHZFjM

In recent years, consensus on EU immigration policy has taken a bruising and any future definition remains in flux — much like the European project as a whole. http://dlvr.it/SHQlDR

Imagine you're on a war ship in the final days of World War Two. The conflict is winding down, and you're excited to get back home soon. But then, disaster strikes. Your ship is struck by enemy torpedoes. And within minutes, you're floating in the ocean, fighting for survival. From Wondery, the new season of the AGAINST THE ODDS podcast puts you in the shoes of the men who experienced the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, and their fight to stay alive. This is just a preview of Against The Odds, but you can listen to the full episode at wondery.fm/ATO_ApologyLine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The roots of this artificial crisis lie in Putin’s pan-Russianist obsession that Ukraine is a ‘Russian land’ and Ukrainians are a branch of the pan-Russian nation. Everything else flows from that. http://dlvr.it/SHHm3z

Terrorism as a tool to achieve political influence can be effective in short-term, but ineffective for long-term goals. http://dlvr.it/SHDKDz

Russian troops on Kazak soil are unpleasant reminders of Kazakhstan’s dark heritage and bring unwelcome memories of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. http://dlvr.it/SH6znw

Western foreign policies are, by way of the security paradox, generating the assertive China that western policy was intended to mitigate. http://dlvr.it/SH2Rst

Stephen M. Bland interviews Akezhan Kazhegeldin, the second Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (1994–1997), who now lives in exile and campaigns for democracy and human rights in Kazakhstan. http://dlvr.it/SH0Z1j

The essay examines alleged policy brutality accusations during the Catalan independence referendum in 2017. http://dlvr.it/SH00B2

The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such. http://dlvr.it/SGt57T

Grassroots justice schemes are better equipped to deliver justice in the aftermath of genocide than top-down state-led adjudication mechanisms. http://dlvr.it/SGqgNW

Often presented as a grand strategist with outsized, grandiose ambitions, Macron’s greatest challenge may be in just containing Europe rather than expanding its powers and capabilities. http://dlvr.it/SGnqZz

This book offers an audacious and detailed tour de force of the colonial and racial underpinnings of political science. http://dlvr.it/SGj0D7

Critical IR began as a strongly emancipatory and normative project, however, it seems to have lost its initial focus and risks forgoing its emancipatory potential. http://dlvr.it/SGbVMH

Ukraine stands as a contemporary case of a state trying to deter an adversary with robust force in the gray area between war and peace. http://dlvr.it/SGZRq0

In the era of some of the most heinous serial killers of all time — one murderous family went curiously unnoticed: The McCrary’s. Led by a psychopathic patriarch and his cunning son-in-law, this Texas clan roamed the country robbing, kidnapping, and killing up to 20 people, most of them taken from donut shops. “Families who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders” recounts the wild and deeply disturbing story of an unhinged American family and the terrible brutality they unleashed. The podcast features the taped confessions of one of the killers, given when he was serving a life term in Colorado. Listen to the rest of this episode at wondery.fm/DSM_ApologyLine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sierra Leone is falling apart as its politicians persuade their people that elections alone deliver democratic reform, while strangling them of genuine voter alternatives. http://dlvr.it/SGRtls