Non-State Actors / IGOs

Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis

Timothy Abington • Mar 27 2019 • Essays

The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.

Can International Organisations Become “Autonomous Sites of Authority”?

Isabella Lowenthal-Isaacs • Feb 18 2019 • Essays

While international organisations can become autonomous sites of authority, they are never fully independent actors.

(Impossible) Women and Boko Haram: The Paradox of Female Support to Sharia Law

Eugenia Zena • Feb 17 2019 • Essays

A nuanced and contextual analysis is necessary to understand Nigerian women’s agency and their involvement with Boko Haram.

The ‘Chilling Effect’: Are Journalistic Sources Afforded Legal Protection?

Laura Broome • Jan 29 2019 • Essays

Because the United Kingdom’s journalistic protections fall short of the European Convention on Human Rights, whistleblowers may be deterred from disclosing information.

National Identity and the Construction of Enemies: Constructivism and Populism

Lena Johanna Kappenberg • Jan 27 2019 • Essays

Constructivism elucidates how populist parties use identity construction and interest creation to portray their policies as necessary protections of national identity.

The Governance of Savagery: International Society, Sovereignty and the Islamic State

Jonathan Burden • Dec 8 2018 • Essays

The gap between the analytical tools of IR and its epistemological western framework has contributed to the failure to predict major ‘upheavals’ in the Middle East.

UN Intervention: Help or Hindrance in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Swithun Rumble • Nov 18 2018 • Essays

The UN’s attempts to maintain the peace process in eastern Congo proved mainly ineffective because it failed to identify and engage with key spoilers.

Incubators of Terror: Anatomising the Determinants of Domestic Terrorism

Blair Welsh • Nov 11 2018 • Essays

The presence of domestic terrorism in a state is linked to government strength and the territorial control of the terrorist organizations themselves.

(Re)Shaping Territories to Identities: Is the Middle East a Colonial Invention?

Yatana Yamahata • Oct 7 2018 • Essays

Orientalism served as a basis of colonial thought and activity that enabled and justified the intervention of the ‘Middle East’ without considering different identities.

‘Fascisti del Terzo Millennio? No, solo Fascisti’: The Politics of CasaPound

Eugenia Zena • Oct 5 2018 • Essays

Despite some perceptions that the political party CasaPound only selectively invokes fascist ideology, the organization fully adheres to traditional fascist doctrine.