Essays

Open Your Eyes: Globalization and the Politics of Attention

Izadora Zubek • Mar 29 2015 • Essays

Attention, action, and mobilization are needed for citizens to be more responsive to global injustices and thus responsible for a more inclusive world.

It’s a Man’s World: The Effect of Traditional Masculinity on Gender Equality

Aydon Edwards • Mar 29 2015 • Essays

By encouraging males to become more open and discuss their masculinities, it is possible to educate them on how their social roles and responsibilities impact women.

Universal Security/Emancipation: A Critique of Ken Booth

Sergen Bahceci • Mar 23 2015 • Essays

Booth argues a simple understanding of security and power and the emancipation that he defends contains the possibility of starting the violence it seeks to eliminate.

What Is ‘Neoliberalism’, and How Does It Relate to Globalization?

Vilde Skorpen Wikan • Mar 21 2015 • Essays

Globalization and neoliberal economic policy must be considered separately, for there is neither evidence of their correlation nor of a global transition to the latter.

The Field of Security Studies: In Rude Health or a Chronic State of Disrepair?

Carl Bjork • Mar 18 2015 • Essays

Security Studies is in rude health, and will remain so amidst ever-changing global threats so long as scholars continue to engage with security theories critically.

Does Neoclassical Realism Provide a Compelling Approach to Military Change?

Riccardo Tomada • Mar 17 2015 • Essays

Accommodating other theories, Neoclassical Realism can explain military change through the internal characteristics and grand strategies of states.

Peru and Chile’s Ocean View Resolved Dispute

Duilia Mora Turner • Mar 17 2015 • Essays

Peru v. Chile exemplifies that legalistic intervention is a peaceful and adequate method for defining borders in modern times.

Post-Race Rhetoric in Contemporary American Politics

Angie Sassano • Mar 16 2015 • Essays

By analysing the ongoing Ferguson protests and post-race rhetoric, America is a society still burdened by racial injustices which favour white citizens.

Do Revolutions Lead to Greater Security or Insecurity?

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard • Mar 12 2015 • Essays

Whether revolutions result in greater security or insecurity is entirely dependent on whose security is being discussed.

The European Security Strategy: Changing the Global Security Environment?

Liam Fitzgerald • Mar 11 2015 • Essays

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.

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