Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture
Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea’s strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational’ security choices during the Cold War and now.
A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward
The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji
Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.
The Origins of Regionalism in the EU and ASEAN
Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.
Havoc to Hope: Electoral Violence in the Kenya 2022 General Election
The 2022 election was not marred by violence due to an interaction between elite incentives and opportunities for violence, institutional constraints, and civil society efforts.
Australia, China, and the Darwin Port Lease as a Public-Private Partnership
The Darwin Port lease was justified by privileging market values, but trouble emerged when it became necessary to incorporate non-market national security values.
Do Human Rights Protect or Threaten Security?
Human rights discourse is premised upon the deleterious assumption that humans are separate from and supreme to nature.
Queer Oppression in the Global South and the Structural Violence of Development
Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.
Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth
The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.
Why Do Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Fail?
Recent research points to the role of resource dependence and local knowledge in activists’ success, and their engagement in either persuasive or disruptive tactics.
