Ali Balcı

Is diplomatic rudeness a mistake—or a strategy?

Our new article @bjpir.bsky.social shows how weaker states deploy "overt impoliteness" to challenge hierarchy and assert agency in leader-level diplomacy. doi.org/10.1177/1369...

The Ruling Group Survival: Why Pakistan and Hungary Move Away from the US-led Order? Abstract. Why do some smaller states signal to move away from the US-led liberal order? We look at the ruling group survival in smaller allies to answer th

Why are smaller countries shifting toward the China/Russia🇨🇳🇷🇺 axis, and away from 🇺🇸US-led order?

Ali Balci and Furkan Halit Yolcu use Hungary 🇭🇺and Pakistan 🇵🇰in the 2010s to explain the shift in survival strategies of key ruling groups in those countries.
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