Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been engaged in heated rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. These two regional powers are both major oil-exporting countries; in major foreign policy issues, therefore, oil is used as an important tool to pursue goals. Iran and Saudi Arabia have a long history of differences on oil policies, but one of the most severe differences emerged in 2011-2016, along w...

Abstract Recent trends demonstrate that states with sufficient capabilities to be granted regional power status by its peers (primarily other within their region) can nonetheless renounce leadership. This article analyzes the puzzling behavior of these detached or reluctant powers. We argue resorting an approach grounded in neoclassical realism is helpful explain why powers might not exercise I...

The proliferation of digital data has been the impetus for emergence a new discipline study social life: ‘computational science’. Much research in this field is founded on premise that society complex system with emergent structures can be modeled or reconstructed through data. This paper suggests computational science serves practical and legitimizing functions capitalism much same way neoclas...

This article addresses how systemic stimuli and domestic constraints, specifically on the perception of foreign policy executives, influence Indonesia’s leadership decline in ASEAN under Joko Widodo’s first presidential term. Through lens neoclassical realism, it is concluded that attributed to changing geopolitical landscape Asia, with assertive rise China need find other models grand strategi...

The paper deals with the automatic compilation of bilingual dictionary from specialized comparable corpora. We concentrate on a method to automatically extract and to align neoclassical compounds in two languages from comparable corpora. In order to do this, we assume that neoclassical compounds translate compositionally to neoclassical compounds from one language to another. The method covers ...

In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...