Norm-taker or Norm-shaper: Is China Socialising into Norms of Intervention?
Language has been expanded to give China greater flexibility in discourse about intervention showing that it has become a tactical tool rather than a deeply held value.
Trump‘24 or Before: Militias and the Marketplace of Masculinity
Masculinity as an antidote to insecurity may result in militia members taking rallying cries like “Trump ‘24 or Before” literally and further perpetrating violence.
Russia and the “Near Abroad”: (Re)producing Identities through Foreign Policy
The practices of Russian foreign policy serve to call into being a “near abroad” with a certain identity and instantiate a particular construction of Russian identity itself.
The Importance of Queer Theory: An Abridgement on Trans Healthcare in the UK
Reforms could be introduced to make such healthcare much more accessible, less oppressive and less violent even with the cuts and pressures affecting NHS care generally.
Beyond the Narrative of China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy
Looking beyond the popular narrative of Chinese debt-trap diplomacy, it becomes clear that it does not hold up to scrutiny.
The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation
Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.
Poliheuristic Analysis: 2008 Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement
Poliheuristic Choice Theory allows to incorporate domestic matters into the analysis of the India’s strategy in Indo-US civilian nuclear deal negotiations.
Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention
Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.
Horizontal Partnership for Gender-responsive Localisation of Humanitarian Aid
The key to efficient localisation is addressing the intra-local horizontal power hierarchies capable of simultaneously fostering gender-responsive localisation.
Analysing EU Foreign Policy on Russia before the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
A change in power image resulting from militarisation would restrain Europe’s normative impulses and introduce greater cognitive flexibility to policymaking.
