Climate Debt: A Model for Indigenous Latin American Self-determination?
Latin America provides relevant context for the implications of a climate debt scheme given its high levels of foreign debt and significant export of natural resources.
The Potential Impact of Cyber Capabilities on Future Strategy
The elaboration of future strategies requires the analysis of long-held beliefs of what is violence, and what is war in this new cyber era.
Human vs. Feminist Security Approaches to Human Trafficking in the Mediterranean
While a human security approach to combat human trafficking has gained support, a feminist security approach is required to fully protect victims of human trafficking.
Pluralist Diplomatic Relations: COVID-19 & the English School’s International Society
The COVID-19 pandemic has subjected solidarist order to pluralist transformation by stripping international summits of their performative role in diplomacy.
From Bandung to R2P: Non-Western Contributions to Modern Sovereignty
Contributions of non-Western states challenge narratives about the natural expansion of international society or the construction of a solely Western global order.
On African Sources of Knowledge: Studies into the Instrumentality of Ubuntu for IR
Integrating the theoretical framework of the philosophy of “Ubuntu,” originating from South Africa, has the potential to be an instrumental force in IR.
The Mobilisation of Sectarian Identities in the Syrian Civil War
The Assad regime’s securitisation and violent crackdowns led to “counter-sectarianisation” in the Sunni opposition, accelerating Syria’s descent into a civil war.
Serenity for Sinjar: Resiliency and Reconciliation
After the 2014 ISIS Sinjar massacre, there is an unlikely, but possible, strategy of reconciliation and reconstruction for the marginalized Yazidi people of Iraq.
“The Women in White” – Protesting for a Peaceful Political Emancipation in Belarus
Newly emergent political norms and identities played a key role in shaping the Belarusian protest movements that surrounded the country’s 2020 presidential election.
Does Terrorism Work?
The response to the question of whether terrorism works depends how the term “terrorism” is defined and what it means for it to “work.”
