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2010.
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Where ideas such as the 'End of History', 'Globalisation' or a 'New World Order' once animated the academy, recent debates within International Relations (IR) seem indicative of an emerging sea-change in intellectual trends. Scholars are now mooting instead a 'Return of History', the 'Return of Authoritarian Great Powers', the 'Return of Realism', the 'Resurgence of geopolitical competition' and even a 'Replay of the Great Game'. The resurrection of these so-called 'traditional' concepts raises an intriguing question: is the study of IR continually plagued by concepts that refuse to go away? This article begins by reviewing the intellectual historiography of IR, demonstrating that heralds of a 'new dawn' have repeatedly encountered the stubborn lingering presence of 'old' assumptions. The article then proceeds to analyse how the philosophical metaphor of a 'ghost in the machine' can help elucidate these peculiar intellectual quirks of IR, before concluding by contemplating the possibility of eventual 'exorcism'.
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145171
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Canada is now at a crossroads unlike any other period in its history and needs to carefully consider which path to take. With the new Trudeau government comfortably ensconced since the defeat of the Harper government in the fall of 2015, a variety of competing interests have emerged in an attempt to turn Canadian policy back to a more nostalgic period of the 1970s that some see as preferable to the institutional lash-up that existed since the rolling out of the Canada First policy in the 2000s. That nostalgic period is, however, misunderstood both willfully for political purposes but also through a lack of historical context. Firmly rooting future actions in a blunt analysis of national interests is preferable to the alternative.
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