Tag: Chloe Lye
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Enemy at the Gates: The Historical Roots of Modern Polish Nationalism
When criticizing various nationalist movements, it is often easy to point to exaggerated or decontextualized past injustices or highly mythologized golden ages to highlight the absurdity and insecurity of such movements. However, what happens when a state’s extreme nationalistic pride, fear and distrust are grounded in actual fact? And in a world of increasing power…
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Dragons aping Bears: Why Russian Disinformation Tactics failed for China
This essay will explore how the Chinese COVID-19 disinformation campaign failed on all three tactical, strategic and grand strategic levels.
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Final Pandemic: the Geopolitics of Zombie Outbreaks
This essay will explore how an outbreak of zombies would play out from a geopolitical perspective. Would international communication and cooperation be possible? Could zombies be weaponized? How could the balance of power be changed? Answering these three questions allows us to identify fault lines in our present international structure, giving us a better understanding…
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Crossroad of Empires: Turkey between Brussels, Moscow and Washington
Turkey sees itself as wedged between ravenous Russia in the North, perfidious Europa in the West, lawless Arabia in the South-East, treasonous Kurds within and a demanding and difficult American ally in faraway seas. This essay will seek to analyse how Turkey has struggled to maintain a sustainable position amidst such chaos and in doing…
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Chimeric State: Iran between Technocracy and Theocracy
The Iranian state system is a truly unique creature, having maintained both twin heads of fierce personality-based theocracy and experienced institutionalized technocracy. In merging these two normally exclusive traits, it has created a chimeric contradiction, which has allowed it to command the monstrous tools of regional pan-Shiite militia and fervent warrior jihadists with the expertise,…
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To Deal with Devils: Why Arms Sales to Humans Rights Abusers and War Criminals should continue
This essay will argue that liberal states (or states that otherwise uphold the status-quo rules-based liberal order), should maintain controlled arms sales to rogue states and international bad actors, with room for specific temporary restrictions, for sake of limiting atrocities, building cooperation and securing domestic interests.
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Thirsty Partition: Water Politics between India and Pakistan
This essay will explore how water plays a critical part in the current India-Pakistan conflict, focusing specifically on the geopolitical element, as well as related key concepts, such as regional balancing, security dilemmas and how to approach “bad” treaties.
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