At present, armed humanitarian intervention cannot be lawful and legitimate, but conflicts in Libya and Syria show the prospects of a renewed and robust R2P framework.
The differences between China and the US with regards to Responsibility to Protect are based on their understandings of sovereignty and legitimate authority.
Dominant abstractions within IR theory are limited in transformative potential, opposing their racialized logics creates a starting point for alternative abstractions.
A cosmopolitan world order underpinned by democracy is both a possible and a necessary outcome for international relations.
Private security contractors are on the rise in military conflicts. Are they different to state-based troops?
The IMF presents a conflict between narrative and policy advice strategy. Has this international financial institution learned lessons from the 2008 Global Crisis?
Rwanda’s national genocide memorials have proved detrimental to their stated goal of memorialization, undermining the process for the Rwandan people.
The Mexico/US borderzone is both a space of exception and refusal, rooted in a history of racial discourse and capitalist supremacy.
This essay seeks to refine Organski’s Power Transition Theory by decoupling the dominant state from the world system it embodies.
With the existence of international norms on the prohibition of other WMD, why has one not emerged for nuclear weapons?
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