It’s Not Only about Illegal Migration & International Law: The Uighur Conundrum
the criticism on the deportation of the Uighur from Thailand to China shows the ambiguity international actors regarding the Uighurs’ treatment by international partners.
A Non-Violent Conflict: The Venezuela-Guyana Dispute
Warfare may not come, but it is clear that inter-state disputes among the two countries over territory and resources will not end anytime soon.
US Policy on the South and East China Seas: Is Underbalancing the Future’s Wave?
The US needs to set new patterns of behavior now so as to instantiate them, make them routine and hard to break in the future, no matter who is in the White House.
Personal-Political Imaginations: Feminism, Gender and Security in Serbia
To understand how particular meanings of ‘gender security’ come about, it’s necessary to pay attention to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict.
The Past Is Dead. Long Live the Past! A Manifesto for (Teaching) Social Change
Historiography becomes not only a valuable object of study, but also a crucial reminder that every present has its own version of the past.
The Political Economy of Biodiversity Banking
Monetising ecosystems, emissions, Species and global-commons in has evolved the ideology from ‘selling nature in order to save it’ to ‘saving nature in order to trade it’
Authoritarian Closeness: Gruevski, Putin and the Macedonian Political Crisis
If the West’s pledge for democracy, meet Gruevski’s bad behaviour with a stern response and not with (more) concessions, the chief one being his hold onto power.
The Islamic State – One Year On
The IS can no longer be viewed as a passing phenomenon and may expand in the future – unless it is coerced into total submission or at least denied a footprint in Iraq.
‘Warm Bodies’: A ZomRomCom Discourse on Counterinsurgency
The hit 2013 zombie movie ‘Warm Bodies’ offers a means of understanding counterinsurgency strategies, as well as a critique of such strategies.
Hydropower Compensation and Changing Nature-Society Relations in Laos
Compensation should not just be about restoring livelihoods to previous material levels. Compensation fundamentally alters nature-society relations in certain contexts.
