International History

Policy Failure and Unipolarity on the Eve of Operation Desert Storm

Riccardo Ghioni • Jul 31 2019 • Essays

The unprecedented support for Operation Desert Storm was facilitated by a combination of primary and secondary factors.

A Rock and a Hard Place: Attempts at Resolving the Cypriot Problem

Jack Smart • Jun 17 2019 • Essays

Cyprus has experienced ethnic conflict in the past, but is now attempting reunification. However, internal and external actors are impeding this process.

Jimmy Carter’s Liberalism: A Failed Revolution of U.S. Foreign Policy?

David Buckland • Jun 16 2019 • Essays

Carter’s progressive human rights and arms control policies ultimately failed as he underestimated the prevailing geopolitical landscape of the Cold War.

Directors of the Apocalypse: A Tale of Russo-Soviet Nuclear Mismanagement

Katherine Katula • May 28 2019 • Essays

Due to unchecked authoritarian practices, pre- and post-Soviet Russia has grossly mismanaged its nuclear facilities with disastrous consequences.

Were ‘Ancient Hatreds’ the Primary Cause of the Yugoslavian Civil War ?

Gareth Jonas • May 22 2019 • Essays

Rather than ‘ancient hatreds,’ the primary causes of the Yugoslav Wars were competing groups’ need for societal security and the elite exploitation of structural anarchy.

Fighting Patriarchy like it’s 1938: Virginia Woolf, Trailblazer of Feminist IR

Constantin Gouvy • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

Virginia Woolf’s work “Three Guineas” should be read as a transgressive, iconoclastic, and avant-gardist classic of critical feminist and gendered IR theory.

Negotiating Sovereignty: Japanese Power and the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Danielle Amaral Makio • Apr 3 2019 • Essays

Clear asymmetries of power existed between Japan and the hegemonic Cold War powers during the Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiations, yet each party received concessions.

Principles or Power: Mussolini’s Invasion of Ethiopia

Anthony Luongo • Mar 26 2019 • Essays

Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia and the failure of the League of Nations to prevent it is best explained through the liberal school of International Relations.

Is the International System Racist?

Katie Lockwood • Mar 3 2019 • Essays

Historically grounded discourses continue to legitimise and naturalise racism and inequality in the international system.

A Critical Reflection on Sovereignty in International Relations Today

Jonathan Ian White • Feb 9 2019 • Essays

Critiquing the Hobbesian state of nature through the postcolonial lens highlights Western ontological assumptions of sovereignty in International Relations.

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