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Mar 13, 2025Open Access
This article examines the current US rhetoric regarding the Panama Canal through the lenses of Structural Realism and Classical Realism, analyzing the resurgence of great power competition between the United States and China. Employing a comparative analysis with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the study investigates how the Canal reflects the dynamics of power and security in the international system. The objectives are to demonstrate the applicability of Structural Realism in understanding contempor...
Feb 18, 2025Open Access
This article analyzes the persistent conflict in the Middle East by examining the complex interplay of historical context, structural realist dynamics (offensive and defensive), and foreign policy decision-making processes. A multi-layered approach that draws on historical analysis, realist international relations theory, and foreign policy analysis literature, this article seeks to comprehensively understand the enduring drivers of conflict in the Middle East region. The analysis demonstrates t...
Jun 06, 2024Open Access
On 10 December 2012, rebels attacked several provincial towns in the CAR and overthrew the Bozizé regime on 24 March 2013. The rebellion’s victory quickly turned into atrocities and undermined the civilians protection. With the CAR totally disintegrated, civilians protection requires a UN peacekeeping operation. On 10 April 2014, the Security Council authorized the establishment of MINUSCA, which took up its duties on 15 September 2014. The objective of this study is to analyse the role that the...
Apr 17, 2024Open Access
After World War II, Japan initiated the peace mission in Cambodia, becoming the first country to deploy its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in collaboration with the United Nations. Noticeably, Japan was incapacitated from utilizing military force after World War II. Its force is exclusively applicable in the context of a peace mission. This article aims to demonstrate the strong commitment of Japanese leaders, authorities, volunteers, neighboring countries, ASEAN Nations, and the international commun...
Oct 16, 2023Open Access
This paper explores the attitude of The Australian, a mainstream newspaper in Australia, towards China, the factors that caused the change of attitude and the shaping of China’s national image, by reading the China-related reports in it. Analyzing the data, the author finds that the newspaper’s China-related reports are mainly negative reports, and the fundamental reason lies in the different national interests of Australia and China, which leads some reports going against China’s idealiz...
Dec 27, 2022Open Access
The Russia-Ukraine military conflict is unfolding social and economic consequences far beyond the central Asian or Eurasian borders. European nations found themselves paying the highest gas price in history to meet their energy requirements. Options available for Europe to deal with this situation are: 1) Increased European Gas Production; 2) Increased LNG Imports from US and Asia; 3) Increased Gas Imports via Pipelines from Neighbouring Areas. Given the recent exponential rise in LNG prices, Eu...
Sep 27, 2021Open Access
Confucius (551 - 479 BC) was the first great Chinese educator in the history of China. Confucius’s educational policy, teaching contents, teaching principles, and teaching methods played a significant role in enlightening contemporary teaching development today. His “teaching without social discrimination” policy laid the foundation for contemporary education fairness, while his teaching content of “writing and acting faithfully” emphasized Chinese contemporary moral education. Confucius’s heuri...
Aug 27, 2021Open Access
China’s ODA in Cambodia had been executed since the 1950s with the remarkable evidence of the four factories’ construction in Cambodia during the 1960s, while the United States of America had also experienced providing funds to build roads and bridges and other humanitarian reliefs in Cambodia during the 1950s and 1960s. After the national election in 1993, foreign assistance was given to Cambodia to support the economic infrastructure and to fill the gap of government expenditure budgets of eac...
Jun 15, 2021Open Access
Since the discovery and commencement of oil production in 1956 in the Niger Delta, the region has worsened in terms of security, poverty, and environmental pollution. The “Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)” is among the insurgent groups that continue to cause havoc in the region. The Delta Niger area is infested with corruption, economic inequalities, lack of opportunities, political repression, nepotism, and so on. All these problems must be addressed equitably and promptl...
Apr 30, 2021Open Access
Cambodia is one of the oldest and the most trusted of China’s alliance. Chinese foreign assistance has influenced in interests of politics, strategics and economics. This article seeks to explore the close interaction of China’s foreign financial aid influences and contributions in respect to economic infrastructure development on economic growth. Methods: Using in-depth interviews with twelve key experts’ participants are conducted and transcribed by the author. The data analysis is employed th...
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