Mohammed Nuruzzaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 165183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Nuruzzaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Nuruzzaman |
| SIGNATURE | NURUZZAMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gulf University for Science & Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1815-4273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
India’s persistent alienation in South Asia: An alternative interpretation
This paper seeks to answer the question: Why is India alienated in South Asia? Given its centrality in the region’s geography, demography, economics, culture and military power, India stands to be the leader of South Asia. Surprisingly, however, the neighbours not only reject India’s leadership bid but also resist it from exerting regional dominance. References are made to historical legacies and India’s hegemonic ambitions that underpin this ali…
The security impact of the Rohingya refugee crisis on Bangladesh and regional states: A securitization theoretical perspective
The Rohingya refugee crisis, a major humanitarian tragedy in contemporary global politics, has gradually precipitated major security challenges to Bangladesh and other states. This paper employs the Copenhagen School’s securitization theory to examine how securitization, especially by the Bangladeshi government and media, has framed these challenges as existential threats. It makes two basic contributions to existing literature on the Rohingya cr…
Joseph Nye’s Soft Power Theory and the Dynamics of China-India Soft Power Competition in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis
A comparative analysis of the soft power competition between the two Asian great powers – the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India – and their strategies to influence and counter-influence the smaller South Asian states allows for an explanation of the evolving, defined or undefined, soft power alignment patterns in the region. It enhances our understanding of the traditional PRC-India geopolitical rivalry in South Asia by (i) adding a crit…
China’s Expanding Footprint in South Asia: Perceptions and Responses of India and the Smaller South Asian States
This paper investigates the diverse perceptions and reactions of India and the smaller South Asian neighbors to China’s expanding footprint in South Asia. While India clearly views China’s BRI-led economic linkages with the smaller neighbors as serious threats to its traditional sphere of influence, the smaller neighbors welcome China’s offer of development cooperation to accelerate the pace of their badly needed economic development. The paper a…
Understanding and Combating Modern Slavery in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy
Notes1 Reuters, "Rohingya refugees demand citizenship and security on first return to Myanmar," CNN, May 7, 2023, https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/07/asia/rohingya-myanmar-repatriation-visit-intl-hnk/index.html.2 Md. Jobair Alam, "The Impacts of the Burmese Citizenship law on the 'Rohingyaas': A Critical Appraisal," Society and Change 9, no. 2 (2015): 67–77, https://societyandchange.com/uploads/1509600085.pdf.3 "Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Law and …
Conflicts, strategic divergences and the survival of economic groupings: Will China–India rivalry make BRICS obsolete
This article probes the viability and survival of BRICS in the context of intensified China–India conflicts and strategic divergences. It argues that occasional eruptions of serious tensions in China–India relations, underpinned by their 1962 border war, threaten to make BRICS an ineffective or weak organization. The article shows that the threats to BRICS’s effectiveness as a new economic grouping originate from both countries’ strategies and co…
Responsibility to Protect” and the BRICS: A Decade after the Intervention in Libya
Responsibility to protect” (R2P) emerged as a powerful moral and political norm in 2001 signaling a shift away from traditional state sovereignty to human sovereignty. North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 2011 R2P intervention in Libya, however, created controversies giving rise to sharp differences between the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and the West over this new humanitarian norm. Major BRICS states officially…
Does realism explain the Arab Spring? Neorealist alliance formation theories and the Syrian civil war
Dominant International Relations theories—realism/neorealism, liberalism/neoliberalism, and constructivism—have so far developed no rigorous theoretical attempts to interpret the Arab Spring, though some marginal efforts have been made to critique the failure of realism to interpret this historical development. This article presents a neorealist interpretation of the Arab Spring focusing on the Syrian civil war, where conflicts between the pro- a…
Chasing the Dreams: The Salman Doctrine and Saudi Arabia’s Bid for Regional Dominance
Why BRICS Is No Threat to the Post-war Liberal World Order
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has emerged as a powerful economic group in the global economy and politics, apparently posing threats to the survival of the post-war liberal world order. Its member states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are seeking to democratize the post-war liberal world order to increase their shares of voting power in the decision-making processes of the Bretton Woods institutions and th…
Western and Islamic International Theories: A Comparative Analysis
Islamic theories of international relations (IR) have been traditionally dominated by debates between two distinct approaches—traditionalism and modernism. A third perspective, often labelled the ‘jihadist perspective’, has emerged following the 11 September 2001 attacks and this radical perspective principally embodies the worldview of al-Qaeda and its off-shoot the Islamic State. The jihadist perspective directly challenges the Western concepts…
China’s rise, the USA and global order: Contested perspectives and an alternative approach
China’s recent economic ascendance and its probable impact on the post-war global order have divided China watchers or sinologists into two broad opposing camps – the school of alarmists and the school of deniers. While the alarmist school exaggerates China’s rise as the beginning of a new Sino-centric world order, the denial school rejects the potential of a rising China to challenge and replace the post-war global order shaped and led by the US…
The challenge of the Islamic State
The Islamic State, proclaimed on 29 June 2014, has tremendously shaken up the Middle East and the whole world forcing hostile and friendly states alike to close ranks and create a collective military platform to fight and contain this new danger before it spirals out of control. This analysis probes the threats and the challenges the Islamic State poses to the West and its Middle Eastern allies and examines why the challenges warranted a military…
Opinion: Qatar and the Arab Spring: down the foreign policy slope
Qatar, a backwater state in regional and international politics until 1995, has in recent years pursued a high-profile foreign policy in the areas of dispute mediations, maintaining balanced relations with allies and adversaries alike, adept use of soft power tools, and even military interventions in fellow Arab states, Libya in particular, to aid the Arab pro-democracy forces. This high-profile foreign policy has aimed at strengthening Qatar’s n…
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Qatar and dispute mediations: A critical investigation
This paper investigates the role played by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in mediating disputes since its creation in 1981 to 2011, the year of the outbreak of the ‘Arab Spring’. It analyzes the contributions of the GCC as a conflict mediator by cross-checking this sub-regional group’s institutional structure and policy approach, and presents two major findings. Firstly, the GCC was hardly designed as a conflict mediator, given that the Gulf …
Rethinking Foreign Military Interventions to Promote Human Rights: Evidence from Libya, Bahrain and Syria
Scholarly opinions on the linkages between foreign military interventions and human rights promotions or violations are highly divided across the board. While many scholars see military interventions as effective means to save and promote human lives and rights from the clutches of repressive regimes, others reject such interventions as harmful to domestic reconciliations and rights promotions. The Arab Spring has renewed the debates between the …
The dispensable nation: American foreign policy in retreat
In 1996 former President Bill Clinton, in the wake of US involvement in the Bosnian conflict, promoted the image of America as ‘the indispensable nation’ in the world. A nation, he argued, that lea
China Goes Global: The Partial Power
Chinese power, both hard and soft, is a hotly debated issue in the West. Scholars and policy-makers, belonging to diverse theoretical and ideological terrains, view China’s recent rise more as a me
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
The Arab Spring – Inching Towards a Dead End
A high degree of pessimism continues to hold a strong grip over the enthusiasts of democracy in the Arab world. In the last more than two years, the popular uprisings for social and political chang
Politics, Economics and Saudi Military Intervention in Bahrain
The March 14, 2011 Saudi military intervention in Bahrain to suppress pro-democracy uprisings created serious regional and global concerns. Political analysts and commentators have interpreted the Saudi intervention primarily in terms of domestic and regional political and strategic dynamics. This paper analyses the intervention issue from both political and economic perspectives and argues that the Saudi decision to intervene in Bahrain to tramp…
Federalism and State Disintegration - United Pakistan, 1947-1971: Some Historical Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq
Multiethnic, multilingual and socially divided large states usually, though not always willingly, prefer a federal system of government to build state institutions and promote national integration. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in federalism following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan in October 2001 and Iraq in March 2003. There are, however, both successes and failures in federal endeavors. This article analyzes the underlying …
Revisiting the Category of Fragile and Failed States in International Relations
International Relations scholars and policy-makers are increasingly paying greater attention to a new category of fragile and failed states across Asia, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Latin America and the Middle East. While effective policy responses are necessary to strengthen these politically fractured, economically collapsing and socially divided states, the category itself appears to be more politically and ideologically charged and les…
Liberal Institutionalism and International Cooperation after 11 September 2001
Liberal institutionalism has traditionally emphasized the need for institutional arrangements to initiate and sustain cooperation among states. The theory regenerated much interest in the capacity and potential of international institutions, particularly the United Nations, for sustained international cooperation and peace in the post-cold war world. A good number of recent developments, particularly the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on Ame…
Neoliberal economic reforms, the rich and the poor in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has been implementing neoliberal structural adjustment policies since the early 1980s. This article analyzes the economic and social outcomes the reform policies have created in the past two decades. It argues that the reform policies, instead of distributing benefits among different societal groups, have brought an economic windfall mainly for the business and industrial class in Bangladesh. Compared to the 24 families of erstwhile Un…
Responsibility to Protect” and the BRICS: A Decade after the Intervention in Libya
Responsibility to protect” (R2P) emerged as a powerful moral and political norm in 2001 signaling a shift away from traditional state sovereignty to human sovereignty. North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 2011 R2P intervention in Libya, however, created controversies giving rise to sharp differences between the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and the West over this new humanitarian norm. Major BRICS states officially…
Politics, Economics and Saudi Military Intervention in Bahrain
The March 14, 2011 Saudi military intervention in Bahrain to suppress pro-democracy uprisings created serious regional and global concerns. Political analysts and commentators have interpreted the Saudi intervention primarily in terms of domestic and regional political and strategic dynamics. This paper analyses the intervention issue from both political and economic perspectives and argues that the Saudi decision to intervene in Bahrain to tramp…
Paradigms in Conflict: The Contested Claims of Human Security, Critical Theory and Feminism
Proponents of human security paradigm, in emphasizing the individual as the fundamental referent of security and in highlighting the non- military sources of threats to security, strongly claim a paradigm shift from the state-centric realist paradigm of security. The article disputes this, arguing that the claim for a paradigm shift from the traditional realist security paradigm is by no means new in security studies or International Relations. T…
Revisiting the Category of Fragile and Failed States in International Relations
International Relations scholars and policy-makers are increasingly paying greater attention to a new category of fragile and failed states across Asia, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Latin America and the Middle East. While effective policy responses are necessary to strengthen these politically fractured, economically collapsing and socially divided states, the category itself appears to be more politically and ideologically charged and les…
Why BRICS Is No Threat to the Post-war Liberal World Order
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has emerged as a powerful economic group in the global economy and politics, apparently posing threats to the survival of the post-war liberal world order. Its member states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are seeking to democratize the post-war liberal world order to increase their shares of voting power in the decision-making processes of the Bretton Woods institutions and th…
Opinion: Qatar and the Arab Spring: down the foreign policy slope
Qatar, a backwater state in regional and international politics until 1995, has in recent years pursued a high-profile foreign policy in the areas of dispute mediations, maintaining balanced relations with allies and adversaries alike, adept use of soft power tools, and even military interventions in fellow Arab states, Libya in particular, to aid the Arab pro-democracy forces. This high-profile foreign policy has aimed at strengthening Qatar’s n…
Federalism and State Disintegration - United Pakistan, 1947-1971: Some Historical Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq
Multiethnic, multilingual and socially divided large states usually, though not always willingly, prefer a federal system of government to build state institutions and promote national integration. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in federalism following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan in October 2001 and Iraq in March 2003. There are, however, both successes and failures in federal endeavors. This article analyzes the underlying …
The world bank, health policy reforms and the poor
Over the years, since the mid-1990s, World Bank-prescribed health policy reforms have successfully introduced market-based private-managed healthcare model in the developing world. This article presents a portrait of the private healthcare model, explores the factors that facilitated the introduction of this model in developing countries and examines the impact of the model on the health rights and health conditions of the poor. It argues that he…
Western and Islamic International Theories: A Comparative Analysis
Islamic theories of international relations (IR) have been traditionally dominated by debates between two distinct approaches—traditionalism and modernism. A third perspective, often labelled the ‘jihadist perspective’, has emerged following the 11 September 2001 attacks and this radical perspective principally embodies the worldview of al-Qaeda and its off-shoot the Islamic State. The jihadist perspective directly challenges the Western concepts…
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Qatar and dispute mediations: A critical investigation
This paper investigates the role played by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in mediating disputes since its creation in 1981 to 2011, the year of the outbreak of the ‘Arab Spring’. It analyzes the contributions of the GCC as a conflict mediator by cross-checking this sub-regional group’s institutional structure and policy approach, and presents two major findings. Firstly, the GCC was hardly designed as a conflict mediator, given that the Gulf …
The dispensable nation: American foreign policy in retreat
In 1996 former President Bill Clinton, in the wake of US involvement in the Bosnian conflict, promoted the image of America as ‘the indispensable nation’ in the world. A nation, he argued, that lea
Beyond the Realist Theories: "Neo-Conservative Realism" and the American Invasion of Iraq
The American war on terror and the invasion of Iraq remain spectacular developments in the history of international relations. This article probes the explanatory powers of the existing academic realist theories to account for the Bush administration's war against Al-Qaeda, a nonstate shadowy organization, and the invasion of Iraq. It argues that the realist theories are largely deficient frameworks to provide any satisfactory explanation of the …
Labor Resistance to Pro-market Economic Reforms in Bangladesh
Pro-market economic reforms enjoy less social support in most developing countries, including Bangladesh. Labor response to reform policies, in particular, has been quite unfriendly and often violent. This article analyzes labor resistance to pro-market economic reforms in Bangladesh in the decades of 1980s and 1990s. It explores the underlying causes that spurred labor resistance to market-oriented reforms, examines the successes and failures th…
Economic liberalization and poverty in the developing countries
In recent years the neoliberal economists have sought to establish the claim that economic liberalization unfailingly promotes growth and reduces poverty in the developing countries. Liberalization of markets in the developing countries, according to them, promotes economic perfection by intensifying competition between domestic and external economic actors and exposing management and workers to improved practices. Thay also claim that liberaliza…
Conflicts, strategic divergences and the survival of economic groupings: Will China–India rivalry make BRICS obsolete
This article probes the viability and survival of BRICS in the context of intensified China–India conflicts and strategic divergences. It argues that occasional eruptions of serious tensions in China–India relations, underpinned by their 1962 border war, threaten to make BRICS an ineffective or weak organization. The article shows that the threats to BRICS’s effectiveness as a new economic grouping originate from both countries’ strategies and co…
Does realism explain the Arab Spring? Neorealist alliance formation theories and the Syrian civil war
Dominant International Relations theories—realism/neorealism, liberalism/neoliberalism, and constructivism—have so far developed no rigorous theoretical attempts to interpret the Arab Spring, though some marginal efforts have been made to critique the failure of realism to interpret this historical development. This article presents a neorealist interpretation of the Arab Spring focusing on the Syrian civil war, where conflicts between the pro- a…
The challenge of the Islamic State
The Islamic State, proclaimed on 29 June 2014, has tremendously shaken up the Middle East and the whole world forcing hostile and friendly states alike to close ranks and create a collective military platform to fight and contain this new danger before it spirals out of control. This analysis probes the threats and the challenges the Islamic State poses to the West and its Middle Eastern allies and examines why the challenges warranted a military…
Rethinking Foreign Military Interventions to Promote Human Rights: Evidence from Libya, Bahrain and Syria
Scholarly opinions on the linkages between foreign military interventions and human rights promotions or violations are highly divided across the board. While many scholars see military interventions as effective means to save and promote human lives and rights from the clutches of repressive regimes, others reject such interventions as harmful to domestic reconciliations and rights promotions. The Arab Spring has renewed the debates between the …
The Arab Spring – Inching Towards a Dead End
A high degree of pessimism continues to hold a strong grip over the enthusiasts of democracy in the Arab world. In the last more than two years, the popular uprisings for social and political chang
Liberal Institutionalism and International Cooperation after 11 September 2001
Liberal institutionalism has traditionally emphasized the need for institutional arrangements to initiate and sustain cooperation among states. The theory regenerated much interest in the capacity and potential of international institutions, particularly the United Nations, for sustained international cooperation and peace in the post-cold war world. A good number of recent developments, particularly the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on Ame…
Confidence-Building Measures in South Asia: A Bangladeshi Perspective
Neoliberal economic reforms, the rich and the poor in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has been implementing neoliberal structural adjustment policies since the early 1980s. This article analyzes the economic and social outcomes the reform policies have created in the past two decades. It argues that the reform policies, instead of distributing benefits among different societal groups, have brought an economic windfall mainly for the business and industrial class in Bangladesh. Compared to the 24 families of erstwhile Un…
Economic liberalization and poverty in the developing countries
In recent years the neoliberal economists have sought to establish the claim that economic liberalization unfailingly promotes growth and reduces poverty in the developing countries. Liberalization of markets in the developing countries, according to them, promotes economic perfection by intensifying competition between domestic and external economic actors and exposing management and workers to improved practices. Thay also claim that liberaliza…
Beyond the Realist Theories: "Neo-Conservative Realism" and the American Invasion of Iraq
The American war on terror and the invasion of Iraq remain spectacular developments in the history of international relations. This article probes the explanatory powers of the existing academic realist theories to account for the Bush administration's war against Al-Qaeda, a nonstate shadowy organization, and the invasion of Iraq. It argues that the realist theories are largely deficient frameworks to provide any satisfactory explanation of the …
Paradigms in Conflict: The Contested Claims of Human Security, Critical Theory and Feminism
Proponents of human security paradigm, in emphasizing the individual as the fundamental referent of security and in highlighting the non- military sources of threats to security, strongly claim a paradigm shift from the state-centric realist paradigm of security. The article disputes this, arguing that the claim for a paradigm shift from the traditional realist security paradigm is by no means new in security studies or International Relations. T…
Labor Resistance to Pro-market Economic Reforms in Bangladesh
Pro-market economic reforms enjoy less social support in most developing countries, including Bangladesh. Labor response to reform policies, in particular, has been quite unfriendly and often violent. This article analyzes labor resistance to pro-market economic reforms in Bangladesh in the decades of 1980s and 1990s. It explores the underlying causes that spurred labor resistance to market-oriented reforms, examines the successes and failures th…
The world bank, health policy reforms and the poor
Over the years, since the mid-1990s, World Bank-prescribed health policy reforms have successfully introduced market-based private-managed healthcare model in the developing world. This article presents a portrait of the private healthcare model, explores the factors that facilitated the introduction of this model in developing countries and examines the impact of the model on the health rights and health conditions of the poor. It argues that he…
Liberal Institutionalism and International Cooperation after 11 September 2001
Liberal institutionalism has traditionally emphasized the need for institutional arrangements to initiate and sustain cooperation among states. The theory regenerated much interest in the capacity and potential of international institutions, particularly the United Nations, for sustained international cooperation and peace in the post-cold war world. A good number of recent developments, particularly the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on Ame…
Revisiting the Category of Fragile and Failed States in International Relations
International Relations scholars and policy-makers are increasingly paying greater attention to a new category of fragile and failed states across Asia, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Latin America and the Middle East. While effective policy responses are necessary to strengthen these politically fractured, economically collapsing and socially divided states, the category itself appears to be more politically and ideologically charged and les…
Federalism and State Disintegration - United Pakistan, 1947-1971: Some Historical Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq
Multiethnic, multilingual and socially divided large states usually, though not always willingly, prefer a federal system of government to build state institutions and promote national integration. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in federalism following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan in October 2001 and Iraq in March 2003. There are, however, both successes and failures in federal endeavors. This article analyzes the underlying …
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
The Arab Spring – Inching Towards a Dead End
A high degree of pessimism continues to hold a strong grip over the enthusiasts of democracy in the Arab world. In the last more than two years, the popular uprisings for social and political chang
Politics, Economics and Saudi Military Intervention in Bahrain
The March 14, 2011 Saudi military intervention in Bahrain to suppress pro-democracy uprisings created serious regional and global concerns. Political analysts and commentators have interpreted the Saudi intervention primarily in terms of domestic and regional political and strategic dynamics. This paper analyses the intervention issue from both political and economic perspectives and argues that the Saudi decision to intervene in Bahrain to tramp…
The dispensable nation: American foreign policy in retreat
In 1996 former President Bill Clinton, in the wake of US involvement in the Bosnian conflict, promoted the image of America as ‘the indispensable nation’ in the world. A nation, he argued, that lea
China Goes Global: The Partial Power
Chinese power, both hard and soft, is a hotly debated issue in the West. Scholars and policy-makers, belonging to diverse theoretical and ideological terrains, view China’s recent rise more as a me
The challenge of the Islamic State
The Islamic State, proclaimed on 29 June 2014, has tremendously shaken up the Middle East and the whole world forcing hostile and friendly states alike to close ranks and create a collective military platform to fight and contain this new danger before it spirals out of control. This analysis probes the threats and the challenges the Islamic State poses to the West and its Middle Eastern allies and examines why the challenges warranted a military…
Opinion: Qatar and the Arab Spring: down the foreign policy slope
Qatar, a backwater state in regional and international politics until 1995, has in recent years pursued a high-profile foreign policy in the areas of dispute mediations, maintaining balanced relations with allies and adversaries alike, adept use of soft power tools, and even military interventions in fellow Arab states, Libya in particular, to aid the Arab pro-democracy forces. This high-profile foreign policy has aimed at strengthening Qatar’s n…
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Qatar and dispute mediations: A critical investigation
This paper investigates the role played by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in mediating disputes since its creation in 1981 to 2011, the year of the outbreak of the ‘Arab Spring’. It analyzes the contributions of the GCC as a conflict mediator by cross-checking this sub-regional group’s institutional structure and policy approach, and presents two major findings. Firstly, the GCC was hardly designed as a conflict mediator, given that the Gulf …
Rethinking Foreign Military Interventions to Promote Human Rights: Evidence from Libya, Bahrain and Syria
Scholarly opinions on the linkages between foreign military interventions and human rights promotions or violations are highly divided across the board. While many scholars see military interventions as effective means to save and promote human lives and rights from the clutches of repressive regimes, others reject such interventions as harmful to domestic reconciliations and rights promotions. The Arab Spring has renewed the debates between the …
China’s rise, the USA and global order: Contested perspectives and an alternative approach
China’s recent economic ascendance and its probable impact on the post-war global order have divided China watchers or sinologists into two broad opposing camps – the school of alarmists and the school of deniers. While the alarmist school exaggerates China’s rise as the beginning of a new Sino-centric world order, the denial school rejects the potential of a rising China to challenge and replace the post-war global order shaped and led by the US…
Western and Islamic International Theories: A Comparative Analysis
Islamic theories of international relations (IR) have been traditionally dominated by debates between two distinct approaches—traditionalism and modernism. A third perspective, often labelled the ‘jihadist perspective’, has emerged following the 11 September 2001 attacks and this radical perspective principally embodies the worldview of al-Qaeda and its off-shoot the Islamic State. The jihadist perspective directly challenges the Western concepts…
Chasing the Dreams: The Salman Doctrine and Saudi Arabia’s Bid for Regional Dominance
Why BRICS Is No Threat to the Post-war Liberal World Order
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has emerged as a powerful economic group in the global economy and politics, apparently posing threats to the survival of the post-war liberal world order. Its member states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are seeking to democratize the post-war liberal world order to increase their shares of voting power in the decision-making processes of the Bretton Woods institutions and th…
Does realism explain the Arab Spring? Neorealist alliance formation theories and the Syrian civil war
Dominant International Relations theories—realism/neorealism, liberalism/neoliberalism, and constructivism—have so far developed no rigorous theoretical attempts to interpret the Arab Spring, though some marginal efforts have been made to critique the failure of realism to interpret this historical development. This article presents a neorealist interpretation of the Arab Spring focusing on the Syrian civil war, where conflicts between the pro- a…
Conflicts, strategic divergences and the survival of economic groupings: Will China–India rivalry make BRICS obsolete
This article probes the viability and survival of BRICS in the context of intensified China–India conflicts and strategic divergences. It argues that occasional eruptions of serious tensions in China–India relations, underpinned by their 1962 border war, threaten to make BRICS an ineffective or weak organization. The article shows that the threats to BRICS’s effectiveness as a new economic grouping originate from both countries’ strategies and co…
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