Essays

The Bio/Necropolitics of State (In)action in EU Refugee Policy: Analyzing Calais

Eugenia Zena • May 4 2019 • Essays

Europe’s refugee policy creates a form of bio/necropolitics that regulates the life and death of refugees. One can see this policy in action in the “jungle” of Calais.

The Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Clash over Syria in Conservative Politics

Daniel Millar • Apr 22 2019 • Essays

The tension between Conservative politicians’ cosmopolitan and communitarian policy reflects a new stratum of division in British politics more broadly.

Soviet Legacies and the Consolidation of Economic Rentierism in Kazakhstan

Mira Sairanen • Apr 22 2019 • Essays

Soviet legacies helped shape Central Asia both economically and politically. In post-independence Kazakhstan, these legacies facilitated the rise of economic rentierism.

Fighting Patriarchy like it’s 1938: Virginia Woolf, Trailblazer of Feminist IR

Constantin Gouvy • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

Virginia Woolf’s work “Three Guineas” should be read as a transgressive, iconoclastic, and avant-gardist classic of critical feminist and gendered IR theory.

Is Universal Health Coverage Always the Best Solution to Health Challenges?

Jed Lim • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

While Universal Health Coverage remains a goal worth pursuing, it faces numerous local and global challenges rendering its meaningful implementation difficult.

Are We Living in a Post-Panoptic Society?

Tobias Champion • Apr 16 2019 • Essays

When Foucault’s theory is analysed in the context of contemporary surveillance, it suggests that we are living in a post-panoptic society.

Egypt’s Security Paradox in Libya

Kay Westenberger • Apr 8 2019 • Essays

Direct security concerns have pushed Egypt into a security paradox regarding Libya. By supporting militias, Egypt is directly contradicting UN unity efforts.

Negotiating Sovereignty: Japanese Power and the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Danielle Amaral Makio • Apr 3 2019 • Essays

Clear asymmetries of power existed between Japan and the hegemonic Cold War powers during the Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiations, yet each party received concessions.

Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis

Timothy Abington • Mar 27 2019 • Essays

The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.

Principles or Power: Mussolini’s Invasion of Ethiopia

Anthony Luongo • Mar 26 2019 • Essays

Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia and the failure of the League of Nations to prevent it is best explained through the liberal school of International Relations.

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