The Irish Defence Forces creates soldiers by replacing individuality with an identity that embodies the Irish masculine ideal of being emotionally void, heterosexual, and strong.
The privatization and commoditization of water involves complex distributional choices that disproportionately impact women and girls living in slums and informal settlements.
Can societies absorb refugees and still maintain their security? An examination of Israeli state practices toward African asylum-seekers can help answer this question.
The behaviour of any particular Islamist movement is rarely static, as movements and parties tend to moderate their ideologies under both inclusive and exclusive regimes.
Due to the lack of a national framework for the protection of IDPs, Indian state governments’ responses to such needs are weak, unsatisfactory and dependent on political agendas.
The city has always been a resource for power. Predominately, this power has been exercised through the use of surveillance by elites in government, the armed forces and law enforcement agencies.
Even if international politics granted a political union between the two Koreas, the domestic conditions in South Korea cannot sustain the successful implementation of a reunification.
After the demise of the USSR, Russia struggled to reshape its identity and was unable to accept the new independent states in its neighbourhood, influencing its distinct foreign policy.
The non-West is often portrayed as underdeveloped and its emigrants are securitised in order to ensure the West’s preservation and justify its self-interested interventions.
The structure of a state’s government and its strategies towards minorities determines whether or not ethnic minorities participate in political processes through institutionalized modes.
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