'SALAM, VLAD': THE SILVER LINING OF INCREASING David Gioe 50
RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Russian involvement - diplomatic, military, and covert - in the Middle East is nothing new. Indeed, the Soviet Union was extremely active in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and others during the Cold War. There is thus historical precedent, as well as contemporary political imperatives, to explain Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent diplomatic power play to avert US missile strikes against Syria. Given American weariness of war, and wariness of the region, if Putin wants to shoulder some of the burden of trying to manage the unmanageable, perhaps he should be permitted to 'fish his wish', so to speak.
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RECEPTIVE AUTONOMY: POLITICAL AND LEGAL Katie Glanz 56
DISCOURSE WITHIN THE SELF
Notions of autonomy, differing widely with respect to the treatment of the social and the historical, circulate through philosophical and political thought. Both the political Right and Left have deployed specific notions of autonomy to provide philosophical credence to ethical, political, and moral projects. Originally a concept with connotations of self-rule, radical isolationism, and unlimited individual agency, autonomy is being re-discovered in non-liberal and radical streams of thought. Recent feminist scholarship on autonomy has sought to resuscitate it from its liberal associations by positing a distinct notion of relational autonomy.
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- concludes with a synthesised account of diplomatic
relations in the 21st century, drawing from the most accurate elements of both theories. In the context of an increasingly multipolar world, this exposition concludes with new, collaborative, pragmatic, and sustainable solutions to contemporary problems of diplomatic negotiation and crisis management.