Archive for 2014

Marine Le Pen and the Populist Radical Right

Matthew Broadbent • Aug 26 2014 • Essays

Le Pen has effectively established an unbreakable rapport with her electorate to evolve a radical-right party on the fringes into a mainstream electoral menace.

Rapid Fire: Is the Ukraine Crisis the West’s Fault? Part 1

Robert L. Oprisko • Aug 26 2014 • Articles

Because Russia cares too much and Europe cares too little for Ukraine, a state’s sovereignty is shattered, its people divided, and its future is now uncertain.

The Construction of Immigration in Italian Media

Giulia Matassa • Aug 25 2014 • Essays

The framing of immigration in Italian media takes a security, military or economic shape. This problematically ‘others’ & delegitimises those immigrants.

In What Ways Can Neo-liberalism Be Classified as Utopian Politics?

Min Goo Lee • Aug 25 2014 • Essays

Neo-liberalism in the self-proclaimed guise of an eutopia allows violence against other utopias, thus validating the very concerns espoused by classical liberal scholars.

Rethinking Change and Continuity in Japanese Defense Policy and Politics

Daniel Clausen • Aug 25 2014 • Articles

Japan has been following a deliberate course in the reform of its defense policy. This has emphasized gradual change over revolutionary breaks. More changes are to come.

The Inversion of Just War Theory

Piki Ish-Shalom • Aug 25 2014 • Articles

Despite universalist pretensions, Just War Theory has served partisan interests throughout Operation Protective Edge; ultimately enabling rather than proscribing killing.

Security: An Essentially Contested Concept?

John de Bhal • Aug 24 2014 • Essays

Security is best seen as an ‘essentially contested concept’ because a universalised, fixed, and static definition is inconsistent with how its meaning changes in context.

Why the Military Did Not Take Over: Understanding Pakistan’s Democratic Path

Sridevi Nambiar • Aug 22 2014 • Essays

Continued democracy in Pakistan is a consequence of the military deciding not to intervene, as they believe they can wield power over the weak civilian government.

Review – The Endtimes of Human Rights

Daniel Golebiewski • Aug 22 2014 • Features

Hopgood doesn’t write for novices, nor is his book path-breaking, yet it offers serious, disturbing, food for thought about the concept of Human Rights in transformation.

A Critical Assessment of the Application of Responsibility to Protect in Libya

Jay Crush • Aug 22 2014 • Essays

The application of Responsibility to Protect in Libya was a success in that it mobilised the UNSC to act decisively with remarkable speed and fully in accordance with R2P

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