Implications of the G20 Summit for global governance and US-China relations
Reflecting on last weekend’s G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, three experts from the Beijing-based think tank the Taihe Institute, shared their views with DOC...
The Islamic Caliphate: Undrawn conclusions
The primary and exclusive achievement of Islamist extremism was the emergence of the Islamic State at the beginning of the 21st century, which adopted...
Political misperceptions and their causes: Suggestions for research
The extent of misperceptions of political events and developments is assumed to be largely determined by the rate of press freedom characterising each country...
Immigration and wealth in 19th century South America
It was only with independence from Spain – and Portugal in the case of Brazil – that South American countries were able to open...
Western liberalism and Russian left conservatism in search of international hegemony
The world is entering a new historical phase in which the economic, political, and cultural hegemony of the world shaped by Western liberalism is...
Hegemony, power, and hybrid war
One of the salient features of the contemporary global landscape is that key state actors are seeking novel ways through which to maintain, achieve,...
Will there be order in the world?
It is hard to say how the world order will be reshaped and whether it will result in any order at all. There have...
The Herat Security Dialogue and the situation in Afghanistan
There are several protracted conflicts around the world that have no definitive solution. These include the Arab-Israeli and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, as well as the...
(Re)inventing hegemonies
This short paper proposes a sketch of a fivefold argument that forms the background and structure of the new DOC project ‘(Re) inventing hegemonies’,...
The Istanbul four? What the recent summit in Turkey could mean for Syria
On 27 October, 2018, the leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Turkey met in Istanbul to discuss the crisis in Syria. In a joint...