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.
This essay tries to contest positivist scholars who pretend to produce general laws in IR; reality is entangled in a historical, political, and social context.
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.
Cybercrimes have increased worldwide. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to fight this through techniques informed by social, political, and computer sciences.
The Democratic Peace Thesis fails to incorporate a Kantian philosophy, underscoring its imperialistic underpinnings and perpetuation of international conflict.
In Ethiopia, protests have been a useful tool to unite various groups into an organized collective with the goal of ‘breaking open’ the existing political system.
While energy resources have contributed to its economy, oil and gas have remained an important aspect of its soft power and relations with neighbors.
In states of exception, security objectives often negate human rights, but a human-rights compliant security approach can lead to better outcomes for public safety.
While the modes and actors of war have evolved in a post-Cold War world, the critical military objectives of war Hans Speier first identified have remained the same.
In the Sri Lankan civil war, Tamil women are motivated to join the LTTE due to the suffering caused by state repression – not as simple victims or emancipatory agents.
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