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Interstate - Journal of International Affairs

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Established in 1965 at Aberystwyth University's Department of International Politics, Interstate - Journal of International Affairs is an international undergraduate peer-reviewed journal that focuses on issues of international and current affairs. It is published twice a year and accepts articles from students of all disciplines.

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Aberystwyth University
Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

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Some issues of this journal are only available in hard copy. Issues from 1968 to 1984 and 2004 are available at the National Library of Wales. Issues from 1985 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2003 are available at the National Library of Australia.

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VOL. 2015/2016 NO. 3
Political Science » Cold War
Détente Studies in Cold War International History: Questions (Un)Marked?
Détente is generally understood as a relaxation of international tension. However, there are many conceptions and characteristics of détente: superpower détente (such as ‘Nixinger's, Leonid Brezhnev's or Mao Zedong/ Zhou Enlai's détente), European détente (such as Charles de Gaulle's détente and Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik) and, to a lesser extent, small powers' détente. Détente connotes different things to different states (and statesmen...
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International Affairs » Korean War
What Were Mao's Motivations for Intervention in the Korean War?
Chinese intervention in Korea in October 1950 continued a period of hideous violence and death in China's history. Between 1927 and 1949, around 21.5 to 27.5 million Chinese had died in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War. Despite this terrible loss of life, exactly one year after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and the establishment of an uneasy peace, Chinese troops were once again marching to war, now in Korea. This intervention would go on to claim...
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International Affairs » Terrorism
Should Governments Negotiate With Terrorists?
In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin dismissed the possibility of negotiating with leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), claiming that there is no sense in talking to a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, as it later became known, secret negotiations to set conditions for the Oslo Accords agreement with the PLO leaders were, indeed, being conducted.1 A similar case was the maintenance of a secret back-channel between the British government and the Irish Republican Army (...
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International Affairs » British Imperialism
How Important is the Notion of the 'Civilising Mission' to Our Understanding of British Imperialism Before 1939?
The ‘civilising mission' is a broad ideology that combines four main ideals; Enlightenment ideals, Christian / Evangelical ideas of pre-destination, racist ideas about white superiority and Liberalism. All these ideals have had a significant role in our understanding of British imperialism before 1939. Due to the limitations of this essay, I will focus on two of the most relevant and important aspects of the ‘civilising mission': racism and Liberalism. This essay proceeds in three parts...
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International Affairs » European Politics
Still Cordiale? Revisiting the Entente Cordiale in the Context of European Security and Brexit
When Britain and France signed what became known as the ‘Entente Cordiale' in 1904, it brought into being an era of mutual cooperation between two neighbours whose past had often made them the best of enemies. The partnership served and survived two World Wars, but when I examined it in its centenary year for this publication back in 2004, relations had frayed. The fog on the channel had been broughtabout by disagreements over the Iraq war and French designs on building a counterweight to...
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