The contours of Chinas soft power profile include Chinese loans, infrastructure projects and an official position in the debate for socio political and economic orders.
2 May 2022
Could a Post Bismarck Germany Have Chisen Soft Power over Hard Power?
China can learn from Germany's miscalculations in military aggrandizement. Your neighbours always respond. They don't want to be provoked.
2 May 2022
Should China Persist in it's Project of Military Aggrandisement?
For China, the choice is between economic might and a muted military profile, and military aggramdizement and the arms race and rebalancing that come with it.
2 May 2022
What us the Transition From a Bipolar World to a Multipolar World?
Power is organised around the strongest poles. Economic and military heft create the gravity of the poles.
2 May 2022
Nuclear Arms and the Threshold of war.
Nuclear weapons have not stopped nuclear armed states from military adventures against states without nuclear Arms.
2 May 2022
What is the Difference Between Collective Defense and Collective Security?
Collective security systems involve all the nations of the earth while Collective Defense systems are exclusive and are designed to respond to a specified threat.
2 May 2022
What is the Difference Between International and Supranational Institutions?
Supranational institutions sit above and govern nations while international institutions do not have political powers that override the national will.
2 May 2022
What Are Realism and Idealism I'm International Relations?
Policies can have both realist and idealist intentions and consequences that may or may not respect the inclinations of their creator.
2 May 2022
What is the Balance of Power?
If the world is a playground, the bug bully holds considerable sway. These kids are a little smart, however, because they will gang uo to balance against te strength of the bully.
2 May 2022
What is Global Anarchy?
The world is anarchic and states use power to ensure their security, first and foremost.
2 May 2022
What is the Difference Between Hard and Soft Power?
Hard power is military power while soft power is all the power that does not include the use of military force.
2 May 2022
What Do Individual Freedoms Have to do With Societal Order?
If you like individual freedoms, choose democracy. Liberal systems guarantee freedoms to the individual that illiberal systems do not.
2 May 2022
What is One Important Difference Between Politics and Economics?
Inequality is a political question while poverty is an economic question.
2 May 2022
What are China's National Capacities?
Although China's economy is large and its industry well advanced, the Chinese have significant technological gaps to fill in order to match advanced economies.
2 May 2022
What are National Capacities?
National Capacities are the legal blocks with which the state builds its foreign policy.
3 Jul 2021
Geopolitics and Industrial Policy: The French Experience
I embark on an exploration of the broad strokes of French Geopolitical strategy and industrial policy from the postwar period to the present day.
3 Jul 2021
A brief overview of Africa's share of global trade from the close of WWII to the year 2005
Why did Africa's share of global trade drop from the year 1948?
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