Compliance with UN Watercourses Convention: Half Full or Half Empty?
How can the UN Watercourses Convention minimise the risks of inter-state conflict over water resources?
The Aesthetics of Revolt: Emerging Political Subjectivities in the Arab Spring
Aesthetic forms of revolt live on in the collective memory as well as in their material forms, and continue to provide a repertoire for subsequent political action.
The Alleged Failure of Multilateralism in Syria: Beyond a Realist Trap
Earlier in history, multilateralism was deemed a ‘realist necessity’. In the current era, it is reshaped through battles of values.
Border Control and Migration Fatalities in the Mediterranean Sea
The issue of migrant fatalities has become an urgent and controversial matter in Europe. Information about how many have died attempting to cross into the EU is rare and not accurate.
The Concept of ‘World Society’ in International Relations
In a world where a realist perspective still seems dominant, the idea of world society – as found in the English school – is a revolutionary concept.
The Awkward European: Britain and the Common Security and Defence Policy
Britain should not orphan the very policy it created in Brittany almost 20 years ago. If it does, that would constitute the real missed opportunity for Britain and CSDP.
Human Rights and Democracy: An Incompatible or Complementary Relationship?
This essay traverses tensions between human rights and democracy stemming from their incompatible basic values, modes of application and types of politics they foster.
War’s Silent Victim: The Environment
Modern conflicts have a high human cost but the environment is often the forgotten victim. Is international law equipped to protect the environment from war?
The Demise of the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship
Walt’s theory of alliances is often used to explain the Sino-Soviet split but the break-down of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance shows more is at play than material interest.
Who is Winning the ‘War on Terror’?
Bush’s ‘war on terror’ was constructed as unwinnable and never-ending, Obama has not successfully proposed a counter-hegemonic discourse with the strength to oppose it.
