Essays

Group Rights and the Protection of Individual Autonomy

Lida Katsanouli • Aug 21 2020 • Essays

Given the role of one’s societal culture to the well-being of the individual, certain cultural group-differentiated rights are necessary for securing individual autonomy.

A New Grand Strategy for a New World Order: US Disengagement from Sub-Saharan Africa

Lila Ovington • Aug 19 2020 • Essays

The post-Cold War grand strategy of the US appeared to make little space for sub-Saharan Africa after losing its ‘utility’ as a platform for East-West proxy conflicts.

How Important is Neutrality in Providing Humanitarian Assistance?

Anahita Bordoloi • Aug 18 2020 • Essays

While neutrality is difficult to adhere to, it should be treated as the means to help provide aid to as many victims of conflict, and as quickly, as possible.

Assessing Globalisation’s Contribution to the Sex Trafficking Trade

Isabella Lahdo • Aug 14 2020 • Essays

The sex trafficking industry has been facilitated by Structural Adjustment Programs and the related economic vulnerability of women.

The Right to Be Here: A Case for the Inclusion of Women in Peace Negotiations

Rosa Rahimi • Aug 12 2020 • Essays

The feminist case for female participation in peace negotiations should be made on grounds that may appear to be deceptively simple.

Friend or Foe? Explaining the Philippines’ China Policy in the South China Sea

Brenda Tan • Aug 10 2020 • Essays

Role theory explains tensions within the Philippines’ policy towards China in the South China Sea by examining contesting role conceptions in the Duterte administration.

Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Rita Deliperi • Aug 9 2020 • Essays

The role the Christian Church played has come to represent one of heaviest failures of Christian ethics and the institutions that profess and practice its commandments.

The Impotent Man: How Constructed UK/EU Gender Identities Legitimised Brexit

Alice Chancellor • Aug 6 2020 • Essays

The construction of the UK as an impotent man opposed to the EU as a powerful, yet feminine, Other by the Vote Leave Twitter campaign legitimised the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

A See-Saw Relationship: An Overview of Afghanistan’s Ties with India and Pakistan

Hargun Sethi • Aug 6 2020 • Essays

Afghanistan’s foreign policy toward India has always been the antithesis of its foreign policy toward Pakistan across three governments since 1996.

Understanding Refugees Through ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire

Sanya Chandra • Aug 2 2020 • Essays

Home forces us to contend with a larger problem – exclusion from the circle of grief based on the lack of shared norms of humanity.

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