Identity Politics

ISIS, Radicalization and the Gendered Online Jihad

Emma van den Aakster • May 22 2020 • Essays

Female foreign recruits to ISIS are an important, though often-ignored, part of the organization. All ISIS recruits contribute to state-building in gendered ways.

Critical Reflections on Ethnicity and Colourism in Africa and the Diaspora

Katya Kerrison • Apr 11 2020 • Essays

Colourism in African communities has evolved from colonialism, slavery and racial hierarchies and affects both those with dark and light skin in negative ways.

Eating Last and the Least: Analysing Gender in Global Hunger

Arpita Wadhwa • Apr 8 2020 • Essays

The level of coordination between international and national actors is a critical determinant of global hunger rates for women.

A Geostrategic Explanation of India-Myanmar Bilateral Relations since the 1990s

Balachander Palanisamy • Mar 31 2020 • Essays

Bilateral relations between India and Myanmar in the post-Cold War era are governed and defined by geostrategic interests more so than by identity and ideology.

Is the Military a Masculinised Expression of Society?

Maya Lahav • Mar 10 2020 • Essays

The military is representative of an international political landscape in which masculinity is considered natural and superior to feminine traits.

Revisiting Wendt: An Argument for the Normativity of Wendtian Constructivism

Daniel Boston • Mar 7 2020 • Essays

While Wendt does not offer a comprehensive ethical framework, he does have a normative side where he offers a goal to strive towards and a moral way for state to act.

Europe’s Biggest Eurosceptics: Britain and Support for the European Union

Ryan J. Bain • Feb 3 2020 • Essays

Euroscepticism remains higher in the United Kingdom in contrast to their continental peers, as reflected in its referendum to leave the European Union.

Dealing with Myanmar’s Past: A Call for a Truth Commission

Laura Huchet • Dec 29 2019 • Essays

The creation of a truth commission in Myanmar will address the country’s past and help overcome the current democratic deadlock without sacrificing past progress.

Decolonising World Politics: Anti-Colonial Movements Beyond the Nation-State

Yatana Yamahata • Dec 15 2019 • Essays

Nationalism does not determine an anti-colonial movement’s success because it does not capture the transnational and intersectional nature of colonial legacies.

Terrorism and the End of Western Hegemony: A Gramscian Perspective

Chloé LALA- -GUYARD • Oct 24 2019 • Essays

Terrorists’ organizations are counter-hegemonic strategy that pose a threat to US hegemony, and these non-state structures operate along the Gramscian model.

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