Meta-Geopolitics: the Relevance of Geopolitics in the Digital Age
A Meta-geopolitical approach to IR is needed as it captures the relevance of classical geopolitical thinking and the challenges and normative shifts of the digital age.
South Sudan: Struggling to Stay Alive
The Republic of South Sudan is fighting to survive. The crisis in the world’s newest nation is essentially a problem of governance, not a natural disaster.
Knowledge, Technology, and the Pragmatic Dimensions of Self-Determination
Indigenous uses of ICTs are about connecting to homelands, strengthening ways of knowing, disseminating ideas about what it takes to survive, resist, and transform.
A Blessing or a Curse? Aid Rentierism and State-building in Afghanistan
Accountability goes where aid direction flows. Fuelled by foreign aid, the Afghan state tends to be more accountable to donors than to its own people.
Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges IR
Indigeneity is a valuable approach to understanding world politics as much as it is a critical concept to move beyond state-centrism in International Relations.
Protesting Youth in an Age of Neoliberal Savagery
It is time for authentic rage to transform itself into an international movement for the creation of an effective strategy for social, political, and economic change.
Self-Determination: A Perspective from Abya Yala
In their approaches to indigenous rights, both the EZLN and MAS allow us to critically explore what is at stake in our efforts to overcome (neo)colonialism.
Art and International Relations
What can art do? What does IR care? Art and International Relations have so much to say to each other, if they only but knew it.
What’s in an IR Program?
One of the problems that emerges when designing a course or a program in IR is that there is so much to fit in and so little that clearly can be left out.
The Power and Consequences of International Sanctions
The question of whether sanctions “work” becomes one of whether the type and form of sanction adopted fits the overall policies developed to achieve a certain outcome.
