Perpetual Conflict of ‘Turkishness’: The Turkish State and its Minority Groups.
Turkishness identity has an effect on the social/legal spheres of its state relations and has Othered the largest ethnic/religious minorities, the Kurds and the Alevis.
Conflicts over the Mismanagement of Water: A Refutation of Conventional Wisdom
The real issue around water basin is not the scarcity of water per se, but the fact that institutions are unable to commit to a fair distribution of this resource.
What Role did Christian Teachings Play in the American Civil Rights Movement?
‘Christian teachings’ does not denote a unitary worldview, therefore, the concept must be analysed within distinct socio–political, cultural and economic contexts.
Weaponized Artificial Intelligence & Stagnation in the CCW: A North-South Divide
The stagnation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons stems from the discrepancy in technological development between the Global North and Global South.
Cycling into Norway – Borders as Creative, Contested Controversies
Security studies should view borders as “contested moments” to better highlight the complexity of their securitization and the subjectivity of migrants.
Is Humanitarianism Merely a New Name for Old Forms of Violence and Domination?
While humanitarianism has been undermined by political and state interests, positive elements of the core idea still exist and should not be overlooked.
A Rules-Based System? Compliance and Obligation in International Law
This student essay draws on constructivist epistemology to explore the conditions of state compliance in international law.
The Implicit Imperialism of Democratic Peace
The idea that democratization is the path to peace rose with liberal victory after the Cold War, but this lacked major empirical backing or a tested peacebuilding model.
(Re)Shaping Territories to Identities: Is the Middle East a Colonial Invention?
Orientalism served as a basis of colonial thought and activity that enabled and justified the intervention of the ‘Middle East’ without considering different identities.
Was There a Soviet-led Menace to Global Stability and Freedom in the Late 1940s?
It was the lack of soft power that demonstrated how unrealistic it truly was for the USSR to expand globally.
