Essays

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.

Egypt’s Social Welfare: A Lifeline for the People or the Ruling Regime?

Ahmed Elsayed • Jul 23 2018 • Essays

Egypt has one of the most comprehensive welfare systems in Africa and the Middle East but has proved unable to alleviate poverty or improve social justice in the country.

‘One Belt, One Road’: Sign of a Revisionist or Integrative China?

Akil Yunus • Jul 22 2018 • Essays

The motive for the OBOR initiative ought to be viewed from a realist lens, failing to do so would grossly underestimate China’s growing authority in the region.

Brexit and Beyond: How Security Threats are Constructed

Jack Gallagher • Jul 12 2018 • Essays

Through speaking security, relevant actors enhanced the threat posed by migration, minorities, and terrorism.

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