Conceptualizing Security: The Strategic Practice of Security
Security ought to be conceptualized as a strategic practice comprising both (1) the practices used to securitize an issue and (2) the practices used to address it.
Peru and Chile’s Ocean View Resolved Dispute
Peru v. Chile exemplifies that legalistic intervention is a peaceful and adequate method for defining borders in modern times.
The European Security Strategy: Changing the Global Security Environment?
The CFSP’s complicated nature is the dominant problem the EU faces in its attempt to create a stronger European voice and a system of global security governance.
One War, Many Reasons: The US Invasion of Iraq
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the culmination of a long series of events and the product of many complex, different, and yet interrelated factors.
Central European Countries and EU Accession: A Blessing or a Curse?
Eastern enlargement was a unique achievement for prosperity and modernisation in Central and Eastern European States and bolstered the EU’s greatest strength: diversity.
United Nations Personnel in the Democratic Republic of Congo
New guidelines for determining the applicability of international humanitarian law to United Nations peace operations are both necessary and urgent.
Rhetoric of Responsibility: R2P’s Harmful Application in Humanitarian Practice
From a well-meaning attempt at humanitarian action following the crises of the 1990s, the Responsibility to Protect has nevertheless become a vehicle for self-interest.
Simone De Beauvoir’s Feminist Ideals Regarding Prostitution
De Beauvoir’s feminist approach to prostitution reveals prostitution is ethically acceptable if those involved are willingly and have the same rights as other workers.
Adaptation, Mitigation and the Securitization of Climate Change
Environmental changes make the rethinking of security unavoidable. An international effort is necessary to develop a framework of adaptation and mitigation practices.
The State of Deception & The Time Bomb: Evaluating Torture as Counter-Terrorism
In a ‘state of exception’, where it is vital to maintain national security, liberal governments do not suspend the rule of law but rather legally circumvent it.
