Emancipation and Epistemological Hierarchy: Why Research Methods Are Always Political
Research methods are always political from a feminist perspective as its methods challenge ontological foundations and connect to devalorized feminine characteristics.
Racial Security: The Unobserved Threat in IR
The complexities of race have received little engagement in IR and continue to be sifted through white frameworks that create oversimplifications and generalizations.
‘Drone Vision’: Precision Ethics Theory and the Royal Air Force’s use of Drones
‘Drone vision’ leads us to ask if drone pilots can make correct and accurate decisions in order to prevent the deaths of non-combatants.
Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism, and the Case of Sweden’s Foreign Policy
A cosmopolitan sovereign? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy offers both an example and conceptualisation of a state shaped by cosmopolitanism.
How Successful Has the UN Been in Maintaining International Peace and Security?
While there has been criticism of UN attempts to maintain peace, the organisation has been particularly successful in creating international norms.
Re-interpreting Political Spaces through Native American Spatialities
Conventional methods of cartography perpetuate colonial and neoliberal positions at the cost of a more inclusive mapping system that would adopt indigenous perspectives.
Double Agency? On the Role of LTTE and FARC Female Fighters in War and Peace
Despite the substantial agency women often hold in rebel militant groups, female combatants’ gendered realities rarely improve.
Securitising the War On Terror
The policy response to the 9/11 Attacks disproportionally securitised global terrorism as an existential threat by using the genre of war, rather than crime.
French Intervention in West Africa: Interests and Strategies (2013–2020)
Recent militancy in West Africa has prompted France to abandon its indirect approach to African security in favor of more forceful military interventions.
Pax Kigali: Reconciliation and Peace in Contemporary Rwanda
The ruling RPF party must succeed in forging an inclusive Rwandan identity, beyond the dichotomous genocide narrative, to move from a repressive to sustainable peace.
