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United Nations through the eyes of Ban Ki-moon

Interview with Michèle Griffin, Director of Policy Planning Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General Interview In balancing the interests of 193 UN Member States with the principles of the UN Charter, the Secretary-General handles the ...

15.03.2013

Prospects for Scottish Independence

Interview with David McCrone Interview The referendum on Scottish independence, planned for autumn 2014, has attracted a great deal of media attention both in Europe and further afield. Many experts believe that if Scotland were to gain full independence,...

19.02.2013

Central Asia: Energy Meadow – Dr. Rico Isaacs Interview

Dr. Rico Isaacs is an expert in Central Asian politics and a senior lecturer in International Studies at the Oxford Brookes University. His research concerns the political sociology of Central Asia in particular the interaction between formal and informal politics, institutions and practices and the discursive construction and interpretation of power and authority in the region. Dr Isaacs is the author of Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics (2011, Routledge)...

18.02.2013

Mastering qualitative research methods

Interview with Andrew Bennett Interview Political scientists often apply qualitative methods, such as case studies, interviews, and analysis of documents and materials, in an attempt to solve real-life problems. But the world is a very complex system ...

18.01.2013

The Arctic states – cooperation or competition?

Interview Today, when we are witnessing the rise of interest towards the Arctic, the issue of successful cooperation between the Arctic states is becoming increasingly important. RIAC has asked Scott Highleyman and David Balton to comment on the ecological ...

04.12.2012

Fyodor Lukyanov: Barack Obama's Reactive Policy

Interview Obama has a pretty good understanding of the modern world. He sees the changes, and knows the world much better than his colleagues and opponents. But he is uncertain of how best to manage things. Therefore, his foreign policy is likely to be ...

21.11.2012

Dmitri Trenin: Washington Driven by Events

Interview Russian policy is a field in which the United States should rise from the tactical to the strategic level. The reset has yielded Washington some valuable but, at the same time, limited results. However, U.S. foreign-policy decision-makers usually ...

21.11.2012
 

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