Security Implications of the Export of Chinese Surveillance Systems
China legitimizes its position in the world by promoting its surveillance state model as a stable alternative to democracies and other autocracies.
Assessing Global Response to Rising Sea Levels: Who Needs to Be Involved?
Addressing rising sea levels that affect islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans will allow for stronger climate change solutions globally.
Justified Alarmism? Assessing the Claim of a Contemporary ‘Authoritarian Wave’
Contrary to alarmist claims of a crisis of democracy, the ‘authoritarian wave’ is more likely to affect hybrid regimes over consolidated democracies.
Shaping the Transnational Capitalist Class: TNCs and the Global Economy
The trans-nationalisation of production has benefited and structurally shaped society through the creation of a Transnational Corporate Class in host countries.
Mitigating the Human Cost of Modern Conflict: Jus in Bello and Cyberattacks
Global governance mechanisms are inadequate to address cyberattacks outside armed conflict as these threats tend to exist in a ‘grey zone’ between peacetime and conflict.
Locating ‘the Everyday’ in ‘the International’: An Exploration
IR is dominated by a state-centric approach to geography; this can be rectified by rethinking spatial frameworks as relational to their historical social processes.
Laboring for Nuclear Disarmament? The Diplomacy of the Hawke-Keating Governments
The Hawke and Keating administrations used “enlightened realpolitik” to promote nuclear disarmament while still keeping Australia under the American nuclear umbrella.
Gender and Security: Redefining the ‘State’ and a ‘Threat’
Using a gender perspective, the dominant definitions of the ‘state’ and a ‘threat’ are re-defined to better understand security today.
Terrorism as Controversy: The Shifting Definition of Terrorism in State Politics
Political motives inform many definitions of terrorism, which are often irregularly applied, harming counter-terrorist initiatives.
Drones, Aid and Education: The Three Ways to Counter Terrorism
Drones, aid and education can effectively combat terrorism, but only if they are deployed together and with the proper restrictions and considerations.
