Non-State Actors / IGOs

Confronting Great Powers: New Zealand’s Nuclear Stance During the Cold War

Antonios Vitalis • Nov 18 2021 • Essays

Constructivism best reveals how France’s bombing of a Greenpeace protest vessel in 1982 emboldened and solidified New Zealand to pass the Nuclear Free New Zealand Act.

Humanitarianism and Securitisation: Contradictions in State Responses to Migration

Juliette Howard • Nov 10 2021 • Essays

When co-opted and deployed by state actors, humanitarianism is far from benign or apolitical: it has very real and dangerous effects on the lives and rights of migrants.

Wind Energy in Mexico: Who Benefits?

Ian Granit • Aug 11 2021 • Essays

The wind energy project Eólica del Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico resulted in negative outcomes for indigenous peoples, and as such violated principles of environmental justice.

Narratives of Violence: The Hong Kong Protests Through Opposing Media Outlets

Shumin Cao • Jul 28 2021 • Essays

Two media outlets, the Guardian and the People’s Daily, are markedly different in their portrayal of violence during the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests.

The Mobilisation of Sectarian Identities in the Syrian Civil War

Antonia Robson • May 3 2021 • Essays

The Assad regime’s securitisation and violent crackdowns led to “counter-sectarianisation” in the Sunni opposition, accelerating Syria’s descent into a civil war.

Serenity for Sinjar: Resiliency and Reconciliation

Ariel Harris • May 1 2021 • Essays

After the 2014 ISIS Sinjar massacre, there is an unlikely, but possible, strategy of reconciliation and reconstruction for the marginalized Yazidi people of Iraq.

Does Terrorism Work?

Olusola Samuel Oyetunde • Apr 29 2021 • Essays

The response to the question of whether terrorism works depends how the term “terrorism” is defined and what it means for it to “work.”

The Implications of Stabilisation Logic in UN Peacekeeping: The Context of MINUSMA

Jemma Challenger • Apr 10 2021 • Essays

UN peacekeeping’s assimilation of counterterrorism rhetoric has incentivised self-interested European military contributions to the UN mission in Mali.

How Helpful is ‘Effective Altruism’ as an Approach to Increasing Global Justice?

Ailie Ross-Oliver • Apr 5 2021 • Essays

Effective altruism fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of injustice and encourages the use of financial-based solutions, undermining efforts to tackle injustice.

Three Lessons for the Intra-Afghan Talks, Courtesy of Iraqi Power-Sharing

Colm Trant • Mar 20 2021 • Essays

Three interrelated components of power-sharing in Afghanistan must be addressed to avoid an unstable experience: accommodation, comprehensiveness, and commitment.

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