Essays

How National Identity Influences US Foreign Policy

Milo Kershaw • Aug 7 2018 • Essays

American exceptionalism drives the United States to believe that it is legitimate in all of its foreign policy actions and that its intentions are above reproach.

The Rigidity of the Russian Partial Reform Equilibrium

Sophia Mård • Aug 7 2018 • Essays

The Russian partial reform equilibrium is sustained by an executive seeking stability, a group of transient winners taking advantage of concentrated streams of rent and a rent-neutral sector of public and business life.

A Well-Founded Fear of Environment: International Resistance to Climate Refugees

Nicole Spadotto • Aug 5 2018 • Essays

Ultimately, the climate refugee norm is stalled due to competing discourses surrounding environmental and migration remedies.

How History Shapes India’s Foreign Policy Goals

Alison Quinn • Aug 4 2018 • Essays

A historical perspective is required to understand how India’s past as a both a dominant and an oppressed power affects its modern foreign policy identity.

The Invisible Army: Explaining Private Military and Security Companies

Tea Cimini • Aug 2 2018 • Essays

Recent US administrations, specifically under President Obama, continued to make private military and security companies part and parcel of their military efforts abroad.

Is the Feminine Changing in Relation to War?

Jonathan Cooper • Aug 2 2018 • Essays

By occupying perpetual states of contestation, the gender codes of femininity and masculinity have always been changing in relation to war.

Liberal Peacebuilding and the Road to Hybrid Emancipatory Peace in Colombia

Anna Wall • Jul 31 2018 • Essays

A Hybrid peacebuilding model that includes liberal and grassroots civil society actors, without the liberal subsuming the indigenous, is imperative for durable peace.

International Relations Theory Will Be Intersectional or It Will Be… Better

Alexander Stoffel • Jul 31 2018 • Essays

Intersectional discourses participate in the construction of the very subject whose emancipation they claim to facilitate

How Has the Study of International Security Changed since the Cold War’s End?

Jonathan White • Jul 25 2018 • Essays

The end of the Cold War has justified an overhaul in the traditional ontological and epistemological foundations of security studies.

The Development-Security Nexus: An Exploitative Past and Present

Riley Barrett • Jul 24 2018 • Essays

The nexus between development and security is a timeworn institution with a Eurocentric history that proves exploitative for non-Western peoples.

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