Essays

Re-interpreting Political Spaces through Native American Spatialities

Niranjana Rajesh • Nov 7 2020 • Essays

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

Fiona Morrison-Fleming • Nov 1 2020 • Essays

Despite the substantial agency women often hold in rebel militant groups, female combatants’ gendered realities rarely improve.

Securitising the War On Terror

Malgorzata Odolczyk • Oct 30 2020 • Essays

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)

Sudarshan Pujari • Oct 29 2020 • Essays

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

Reon van der Merwe • Oct 28 2020 • Essays

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.

The State of and Prospects for Space Governance: A Critical Deliberation

Finn Robinsen • Oct 26 2020 • Essays

Great Powers have actively exploited the stagnation of multilateral governance mechanisms to unilaterally shape the norms and rules of space activities.

Incumbents vs Insurgents: Counter Insurgency’s Normative Reliance on Brute Force

Bethany Castle • Oct 20 2020 • Essays

Critical terrorism scholarship is overturning the notion that brute government force is the only effective method of counterinsurgency.

How the Securitisation of Sexual Violence in Conflict Fails Us

Michelle Dyonisius • Oct 19 2020 • Essays

The securitisation of sexual violence in conflict reproduces a gendered and colonial conception of war that has concrete consequences on how the matter is addressed.

Israel-Palestine and the EU’s New ‘Language of Power’ – Plus Ça Change?

Emma Evans • Oct 17 2020 • Essays

For the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is argued that Josep Borrell pay attention to discursive and social factors in the EU’s long-standing foreign policy commitment.

How MONUSCO Contributed to Constructing the DRC as the ‘Dark Heart’ of Africa

Sofia Romansky • Oct 16 2020 • Essays

The role and scope of MONUSCO forces in the DRC were greatly influenced by Western perceptions of the country as the “dark” heart of Africa.

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