Essays

Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Gendering Violence through Johan Galtung  

Ellie Swingewood • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

By utilising gender as a key conceptual tool of analysis, different dimensions of the impact of the Syrian conflict on displaced populations can be examined.

Evaluate the Role of Utopian Thinking in Green Political Thought

Lucile Cremier • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

As a mode of thinking, ‘Utopia’ is a crucial part of Green political thought and a mark of its distinctiveness.

How Have Austerity Measures Undermined Peruvian Women’s Reproductive Rights?

Sophia Gore • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

Under the guise of women’s ‘empowerment’ and and ‘rights to ones own body,’ Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori disguised the economic ideology of the regime.

Popular Culture & the Representation of Women’s ‘Agency’ During Indian Partition

Arpita Roy • Nov 5 2014 • Essays

From popular culture in India, we can identify examples of the strategic deployment of women’s agency. Discussions of agency are necessary for feminist resistance.

Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy Trends and Interactions with Native Americans

Seth Hopkins • Oct 31 2014 • Essays

Certain trends in American foreign policy can be better understood when seen as framed by the context of interactions with Native Americans

Balancing the Rights of Sovereign States With Those of Secessionist Movements

Matthew Richmond • Oct 26 2014 • Essays

For secession, the balance of rights, despite a shift towards a more ‘liberal’ international law in recent years, should remain in the favour of (just) sovereign states.

Does Realism Constitute a Recipe for a More Dangerous World?

Veronica Kate Coates • Oct 22 2014 • Essays

Criticisms that Realism constitutes a recipe for a dangerous world are misplaced, and are largely based upon inaccurately viewing neorealism and realism as synonymous.

Post-Communist Transitions and Military Conflict in Asia

In China, Laos, and Vietnam, the move from planned to market-oriented economies has increased free trade and diminished levels of international conflict and hostility.

Legitimacy and the US-led Invasion of Iraq

Camille Mulcaire • Oct 17 2014 • Essays

The existence of legitimate norms & principles within international society did, in fact, exert influence over the US’ behaviour in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Asian Tigers from Independence to Industrialisation

Bruno Marshall Shirley • Oct 16 2014 • Essays

Do the lessons learned from the rapid economic growth of the Tigers from the 1960s through the 1990s have a practical application in contemporary development?

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