Constructivism better captures the agency states have via its understanding of state identity as a variable constructed in societies and through interstate interactions.
Cities are behaving as actors in contemporary international politics by mimicking diplomatic practices, organising transnational networks, and engaging with IOs.
The ontological and epistemological knowledge of indigenous communities should have an active, collaborative, and participatory role in climate change discourse.
The unprecedented support for Operation Desert Storm was facilitated by a combination of primary and secondary factors.
After Brexit, British politicians wanted to pursue a “Global Britain” policy and strengthen trade with the Commonwealth, but this strategy cannot replace EU trade.
International relationships should be viewed across a spatial plane, rather than a temporal one, to better conceptualise borders and nomadic subjects.
The logic of the non-proliferation regime and the choice to proliferate can be explained by the theoretical fusion of biopolitics and necropolitics.
The idea of a security-development nexus, that a country’s well-being depends on its level of development, is too simplistic to explain the dynamics of conflict.
The ongoing Syrian Civil War exemplifies the need to reform the United Nations Security Council in order to better address elements of modern conflict.
Prevailing understandings of the “family ideal” within International Relations continue to marginalize queer identities at the local, national and international level.
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