Essays

Kaliningrad’s Energy Self-sufficiency: Potentials and Opportunities

Gianmarco Riva • Dec 12 2019 • Essays

Relations between the EU and Russia have sparked concerns regarding energy relations, notably with respect to Kaliningrad’s energy security.

EU Foreign Policy in East Asia: EU-Japan Relations and the Rise of China

Martijn Kooi • Dec 5 2019 • Essays

While Japan and the EU are allies who emphasize liberal values in their foreign policy, geopolitical concerns have prevented them from agreeing on a China policy.

The Dangers of Securitizing Health

Hannah Roberts • Dec 4 2019 • Essays

Securitization can be a beneficial strategy for policy makers in global health but its Eurocentric nature creates a binary between the West and developing states.

In Search of a European Strategy? From a Normative to a Pragmatic Approach

Luca Nicosia • Dec 3 2019 • Essays

Differences between the ESS and the EUGS are examined, illustrating challenges the EU expects to face and the long-term framework of the EU’s foreign and defence policy.

The Use of “Remote” Warfare: A Strategy to Limit Loss and Responsibility

Bernhardt Fourie • Nov 30 2019 • Essays

Remote warfare has become increasingly popular among Western governments as both a political and military tool in the fight against terror.

Buy Good, Do Good, Be Good? Ethical Consumption as Neoliberal Governmentality

Ruby Agatha Utting • Nov 24 2019 • Essays

Neoliberal capitalism is reproduced by discourse of ethical consumption as a global-corporate and individualised conflation of the economic and social spheres.

The False Dichotomy of the Material-Ideational Debate in IR Theory

Sulagna Basu • Nov 21 2019 • Essays

Contrary to what most IR theory perspectives envision, material and ideational forces are mutually constitutive, not oppositional.

The Uneven and Combined Emergence of “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”

Georg McCutcheon • Nov 19 2019 • Essays

The emergence of China’s capitalist system and its “Chinese characteristics” can be understood as an outcome of uneven and combined development.

The Carter Administration and Human Rights in Chile, 1977-81

Joseph Creffield • Nov 14 2019 • Essays

Jimmy Carter ignored human rights abuses perpetuated by the Pinochet regime and only responded if the threat was to do with containing the communist threat in Chile.

The Future Challenges Facing Europe as a Global Actor

Tristan Thorn • Nov 8 2019 • Essays

Geopolitical developments and changes to the international system constitute the major challenges facing the European Union in the future.

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