Dragons, Thrones and Statebuilding: The Rule of Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen
Daenerys Targaryen’s rule over the city-state of Meereen in A Song of Ice and Fire is a perfect sample to demonstrate and test contemporary theories of statebuilding.
Sectarian Divisions, Proxy Wars and Chaos
It is important to have a firm grasp of the role that religion and sectarianism play as mobilizing forces in the regional politics of the Middle East.
Review – Religion and the Realist Tradition
While assessing how realism addresses religious issues in world politics, this collection also explores the role of religion in the intellectual development of IR theory.
Church, State and Culture: Should Religion Be a Private Matter?
Secular liberalism has become an influential, even dominant, worldview among sections of the intellectual class in many Western societies.
The Contemporary Ambiguities of Religions as a Source of Civilisational Identity
The international society is experiencing an epoch-making process of transformation. The global resurgence of religion is not unrelated to these structural changes.
Forced Marriage in Australia: Definitely Not the ‘Usual Suspects’
Forced marriage comprises an untidy bundle of wrongs lost at the intersection of international relations, state sovereignty, human rights, and criminal accountability.
VVP: Is Vladimir Putin the Super-Villain We’ve All Been Waiting For?
Like Osama bin Laden circa 2000, Vladimir Putin, while real enough, is more a figment of our popular-geopolitical imagination, and one which we cannot live without.
Turkey’s Borderlands, the Syrian Civil War, and the Kurds
For countries that share a long land border and overlapping populations with similar customs, ‘spillover’ is a natural sociological corollary of transnational ties.
Review – Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Examining our attachments to ethical consumption practices such as volunteer tourism, Vrasti’s book sheds light on its links to capitalism and neoliberal subjectivity.
Looking Back to See Forward: Romanticism, Religion and the Secular in Modernity
The pervasive religious aspects of Romanticism demonstrate the failure of previous theories of secularisation. Modernity has never been a monolithic intellectual.
