Essays

How Helpful is ‘Effective Altruism’ as an Approach to Increasing Global Justice?

Ailie Ross-Oliver • Apr 5 2021 • Essays

Effective altruism fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of injustice and encourages the use of financial-based solutions, undermining efforts to tackle injustice.

Whose Statebuilding? Western Ideology at the Core of Statebuilding Operations

Gizem Yurtseven • Apr 1 2021 • Essays

Statebuilding is a challenging terrain in which Western normative vision of statehood and lack of local ownership contribute to its failure.

Do Colonialism and Slavery Belong to the Past? The Racial Politics of COVID-19

Erica Smith • Mar 30 2021 • Essays

The context of the COVID-19 pandemic and conceptualizations of post-positivist theory clearly show that colonial logic is still endemic in the 2020s.

Climate Security in the United States and Australia: A Human Security Critique

Dona Toyesha Tusharansi Padukkage • Mar 27 2021 • Essays

Climate change should be explicitly recognised by states as an existential threat to human security and related measures should immediately be implemented.

Terrorism in the North Caucasus: The Endurance of Russian and Chechen Tactics

Luke Seminara • Mar 23 2021 • Essays

The history of the Chechen-Russian conflict provides a hint toward the tactics that may be employed should violent hostilities emerge again.

Conceptualising Europe’s Market Power: EU Geostrategic Goals Through Economic Means

Simon Pompé • Mar 23 2021 • Essays

Due to its economic weight, the assumption of the EU’s predominant economic power is logical. This applies even in security issues such as the Ukraine conflict.

Three Lessons for the Intra-Afghan Talks, Courtesy of Iraqi Power-Sharing

Colm Trant • Mar 20 2021 • Essays

Three interrelated components of power-sharing in Afghanistan must be addressed to avoid an unstable experience: accommodation, comprehensiveness, and commitment.

A Review of Critical Race Theory’s Critiques of Mainstream IR

Julia Carreiro Rolim • Mar 20 2021 • Essays

The racist history of anarchy and sovereignty are obscured due to the high levels of abstraction and the value-neutrality embedded in mainstream theories.

Female Genital Cutting in Africa: The West and the Politics of ‘Empowerment’

Amy Knox • Mar 19 2021 • Essays

Western models of empowerment bring only one dimension of gendered power and agency that are unlikely to have the same purchase in the Female Genital Cutting context.

The Securitization of Christianity under Xi Jinping

Zeger Franciscus Glas • Mar 11 2021 • Essays

Through a securitization framework, it is argued Xi’s administration is attempting to present Christianity as an existential threat to national unity and social order.

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