Pakistan in 2004: Running Very Fast to Stay in the Same Place

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Political System ◽  
Military Regime

During 2004, Pakistan's civilianizing military regime continued its attempts to balance two seemingly irreconcilable goals: to democratize and stabilize Pakistan's deeply divided political system and to maintain official support, despite nearly unanimous domestic opposition, for U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. This delicate balancing act was further complicated by the A. Q. Khan nuclear weapons affair.

The Nuclear Ban Treaty and the cloud over Trudeau’s ‘feminist’ foreign policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-444
Author(s):  
Lee-Anne Broadhead ◽  
Sean Howard
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
New Era ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
And Gender

The Canadian Liberal government of Justin Trudeau claims to be ushering in a new era of a “feminist” foreign policy. While serious steps have been taken in this direction, this paper focuses on the government’s opposition to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a treaty that has been negotiated with a logic and language explicitly linking issues of disarmament and gender, reframing “security” as fundamentally a question not of state but of human (and environmental) security. Ignoring its own public statements that repeatedly link women with peace and security, the Trudeau government’s opposition to the Treaty exposes the hollowness of its claims.

Thailand in 2015

Asian Survey ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kitti Prasirtsuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
The Military

Under the military regime, Thailand struggled to design a new constitution. As the recently drafted document was rejected, another Constitutional Drafting Committee was installed, in effect delaying the return to electoral democracy for almost a year, until mid-2017 or so. Meanwhile, a bomb blast in downtown Bangkok that killed about 20 people revealed not only the risk of international terrorism but also the dilemma of Thai foreign policy.

Seminar On Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-182
Author(s):  
M.L. Sondhi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Nuclear Weapons

Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Case of Canada and Nuclear Weapons

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard H. Lentner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Government

Foreign policy decision making is the result of a complex political process in which the political values and style of the chief executive play a large part. The case of Canada's decision, in 1963, to acquire nuclear weapons illustrates that external events and pressures generated by Canada's international obligations were processed through complex political interactions. The Government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker was unable to take the nuclear weapons decision because of two splits in the Cabinet, only one of which was pertinent to nuclear weapons policy. The decision was taken by Leader of the Opposition Pearson alone and in conformity with his personal values, because of his political style which commanded deference. The approach used combines historical detail with political analysis.

Bases of Russian Statehood Centuries-Old Stability

10.12737/625 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Гайнутдинова ◽  
Lyudmila Gaynutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Extraordinary Means ◽  
Russian Identity

In this paper devoted to 1150-year anniversary of the Russian statehood, the bases of its centuries-old stability are analyzed. There are following key factors of this stability: centuries-old expansion of borders due to extremely adverse foreign policy context; mobilization type of political system development for achievement the extraordinary purposes by extraordinary means; absolute monarchy as political system that proved to be capable to carry out a complex of drastic military and bureaucratic measures; acceptance of Orthodoxy which has become a basis of Russian identity as well as political and ideological basis of Russian statehood.

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