Arms production and defense companies are back in the public spotlight. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions have boosted governments’ demand for arms and prompted concerns for supply-chain and production capacity.[1] A recent analysis by The Financial Times found that, despite “swelling” backlogs, “the order books of the world’s biggest defence companies…
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H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable on Murray, The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations
Rising great powers want others to recognize their greatness. They don’t always get what they want. Leading states sometimes welcome their arrival in a very elite club, satisfying their desire for status on the world stage. At other times, however, the status quo powers are unwilling to offer recognition. Much rests on such decisions, as…
H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 15-31 on Larsen, >Plotting for Peace
The 2022 release of the German film “All Quiet on the Western Front” can only lead one to again raise the salient question of whether there was a time in the history of World War I when the carnage could have been stopped. Two works have recently addressed this topic. One is Philip Zelikow’s The…