Russian governments have used nostalgia for the Soviet Union as a political tool to generate a uniform Russian national identity.
Interpreting sovereignty as a responsibility toward a state’s own citizens, not a tool for limitless power, mends R2P’s tension between sovereignty and human rights.
The ‘White Saviour Syndrome’ represents the interpellation of an altruistic subject by the ruling capitalist ideology that reinforces the global means of production.
Both the American and French governments have responded to terrorist attacks in ways that threaten liberal democratic society.
This autoethnographic essay explores how myth-making in the Scottish education curriculum contributes to a rise in Scottish identity of young people.
U.S. foreign policy toward Iran’s nuclear program has evolved to it’s current position due to groupthink dynamics between 2017-2019.
Security discourse that constructs migrants as existential threats to the American national identity reinforces racism, abuse of power, and the politics of fear.
Influenced by corporations, human rights abuses against Latin American environmental defenders are some of the worst in the world. International law offers a solution.
Cyber aggression can constitute an act of war if it is violent, political and instrumental. Thus, although cyber war has not yet occurred it is likely to in the future.
Libya’s security dilemma is tied to the challenges of state-building and democratisation processes reflected through its weak institutions and legitimacy issues.
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