Essays

China’s ‘World-Class’ Military Modernisation

Ian Seow Cheng Wei • Apr 22 2022 • Essays

China’s military modernisation and restructuring is a complex endeavour involving personalities, domestic politics, foreign relations and the economy.

Renewable Energy: Local Benefits or Marginalisation?

Ian Granit • Apr 20 2022 • Essays

(How) can small-scale rural renewable energy projects improve livelihoods of Wayuu people in rural Colombia? This essay explores this issue through the water-energy-food security nexus.

Transforming Global Food Systems: Centering Indigenous Land Returns

Fian Sullivan Sweeney • Apr 15 2022 • Essays

Greater land returns to Indigenous people and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty can address the worsening global food insecurity crises.

Citizenship Deprivation Policy in the UK and Abroad: a Postcolonial Analysis

Kate Goodfellow • Apr 10 2022 • Essays

Colonial history is still reflected in the UK citizen deprivation policy, segregating white and Muslim British citizens—it has a global impact too.

Decolonisation and Violence: What It Takes to Decolonise IR

Meindert Boersma • Apr 9 2022 • Essays

This essay seeks to understand what is envisioned for decolonizing IR. What does it take to realise this vision? Is it necessarily violent?

GDPR as a Global Standards? Brussels’ Instrument of Policy Diffusion

Marco Luisi • Apr 9 2022 • Essays

This research argues that the regulatory instrument deployed by the EU, the GDPR, does influence the behaviors of foreign companies and governments as well.

Why Is Identity Politics Failing to Curb Social Injustice?

Akshat Sogani • Apr 8 2022 • Essays

Why is identity politics failing? This essay examines the shortcomings of identity politics within caste-based politics in India and racial politics in the U.S.

The Islamic State’s Guidelines on Sexual Slavery: the Case of the Yazidis

Agnes Termeer • Apr 3 2022 • Essays

The way ISIS rationalised its sexual slavery points to a transcendent and distinctive pattern of violence insufficiently explained by any of the existing theories.

Australia: International Agreements as Obligation in the Case of Climate Change

Chris Fitzgerald • Mar 20 2022 • Essays

The high-emitting state of Australia has obligations considering its international agreements: especially vis-à-vis its vulnerable Pacific Island state neighbours.

Migration in the European Union: Mirroring American and Australian Policies

Hazel Claeys • Mar 20 2022 • Essays

The European Union has abandoned its perceived humanitarian values to pursue a ‘state security’ ideology. The result? New policies make refugees increasingly unwelcome.

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