Essays

Securitisation, China and FDI: The EU’s Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation

Talisha Schilder • Mar 15 2022 • Essays

This essay argues that the EU established a tight framework for Foreign Direct Investment screening to securitise Chinese FDI in Europe.

CPEC: An Assessment of Its Socio-economic Impact on Pakistan

Ashmita Rana • Mar 10 2022 • Essays

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has been underwhelming, plagued by shortcomings in the project itself and from the nature of governance and politics in Pakistan.

Eligibilizing Certain Populations: Hindutva Politics Of UP Population Bill 2021

Dipanita Malik • Mar 4 2022 • Essays

The 2021 UP Population Bill enables the UP state to consolidate focus on Hindutva politics that deploys aggressive policing of women and their reproductive capacities.

Piracy in the Southern Gulf of Mexico: Upcoming Piracy Cluster or Outlier?

Anja Stelzer • Feb 27 2022 • Essays

The evolving situation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico raises the question if the area has potential to become a piracy hotspot to the likes of the Gulf of Aden or Gulf of Guinea.

Gramscian Notions: Helpful for Research into Digital and Tech Corporations?

Giuliano Catalano • Feb 26 2022 • Essays

Analysing Big Tech as a transnational capitalist class, Gramscian thought provides an outlook on possible avenues of governance of the digital sphere.

Neo and the ‘Hacker Paradox’: A Discussion on the Securitization of Cyberspace

Bernardo Beiriz • Feb 24 2022 • Essays

Characterization of hackers as ‘IT professionals’ or as ‘computer hackers’ by the state influences the dynamics of cyberspace securitization.

Tracing Hobbes in Realist International Relations Theory

Shubhankar Kashyap • Feb 22 2022 • Essays

Is the classification of Thomas Hobbes as a realist an oversimplification? This essay critiques the adoption of his political thought by classical and neo-realists.

Why Does Big Tech Stay Headquartered In The US?

Yeo Qin-Liang • Feb 22 2022 • Essays

Big Tech centres its corporate power in the US to influence the American government into advancing its interests domestically and internationally.

To Reform the World or to Close the System? International Law and World-making

Emil Sondaj Hansen • Feb 20 2022 • Essays

A comparative investigation of two scholarly works on the development of international law in its context of the international system.

What Does Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s Death Mean for the Future of ISIS?

Sybren Enserink • Feb 18 2022 • Essays

The death of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was an important symbolic loss, but will not determine the future and power of the group.

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