The Responsibility to Protect in 2020: Thinking Beyond the UN Security Council
The break down in multilateralism forces us to think more expansively about how protection and prevention initiatives can be delivered and supported.
Opinion – COVID-19: Why is the World Singling Out New Zealand for Praise?
Some of the countries that were labeled by Donald Trump as ‘shitholes’ outperformed Global North states and despite their successes have been sidelined by the media.
Surveying the American Public on the Plight of Climate Refugees
The public does not seem inherently hostile to assistance to climate refugees or US involvement to address their plight.
Opinion – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of COVID-19 Recovery Financing in Europe
COVID-19 has exposed the weaknesses of both the EU and the eurozone and brought into question the fiscal and political survival of the bloc.
Visiting the Russian Far East: Yakutsk
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences travelling to the Russian Far East in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the start of the decade.
American Global Health Internationalism and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa
America will have great difficulty being the hospital and the gun shop for the global South. Perhaps it is time for it to re-examine its approach and re-order its priorities.
Opinion – Xi Jinping’s People-Oriented Narrative
Without the possibility to independently think and freely express, that allows us to question the reality around us, there are no ideas and there is no creativity.
Opinion – Challenges to Kazakhstan’s Transition to the Green Economy
There is still a lack of strategic, long-term vision for environmental protection and many barriers to realizing the goals of sustainable development in Kazakhstan.
Opinion – COVID-19: Human Dignity Under Siege Amidst Multiple Crises
The pandemic provides an opportunity for states to value the dignity of all lives, invest in public and common goods and reinvent political systems to make them effective stewards of the environment.
Visual Methods and International Security Studies
If texts anchor and give visuals meaning, then visuals can also be said to anchor and provide meaning to text. Seeing, combatting, and studying (in)security requires more than words.
