Essays

The Racialisation of Rape Narratives in British Media Coverage of the Delhi Rape

Scarlett Cockerill • Jan 5 2016 • Essays

The symbolic and emotive potential of rape narratives has, throughout colonial and post-colonial history, been powerfully employed in connection with race.

The Crime of Enforced Disappearance

Marina Kumskova • Jan 3 2016 •

The definition of enforced disappearance is of paramount importance in determining state obligations and preventing the crime of enforced disappearance.

Theorising LGBT Rights as Human Rights: A Queer(itical) Analysis

Natalie Lovell • Dec 30 2015 • Essays

Human rights have emerged as a the primary vehicle through which the future of LGBT rights are being negotiated and institutionalized.

Analyzing the Threat of Human Trafficking in Europe

Dale Anderson • Dec 29 2015 • Essays

Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act of 1999 has had the unintended consequence of organized crime groups finding a new path of least resistance in human trafficking

The EU’s Normative Nature and Its Sanction Regime Against Russia: An Oxymoron?

Leonard Schuette • Dec 29 2015 • Essays

Sanctions per se are not irreconcilable with normative behaviour, as they may perform the function of conveying a normative argument rather than merely coerce the other.

The Importance of ‘Intersectionality’ for Feminist Political Theory and Activism

Natalie Lovell • Dec 29 2015 • Essays

Intersectionality compels us to tackle complexity and to address categories of difference, recognizing that identity categories are dynamic, fluid and indivisible

How does Poststructuralist Theorizing Challenge Understandings of Power?

Liam A Simmonds • Dec 28 2015 • Essays

While power is traditionally viewed negatively and as destructive, coercive and so on, the PS view is much more agnostic about moralising its conception of power.

Snake Oil: US Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, and the Cold War

Vincent J. Tumminello II • Dec 27 2015 • Essays

Afghanistan has become a “snake country”: where loyalty can only be rented, solutions are always temporary, and the law of the stronger prevails.

A Moral Vindication of Morgenthau’s Classical Realism

Francesco Bortoluzzi • Dec 26 2015 • Essays

Some observers claim that realism is an amoral doctrine. However, in Morgenthau’s realism, morality is a constitutive feature that argues for a reasoned foreign policy.

The BRICS: Rhetoric or Reality?

Laura Peitz • Dec 22 2015 • Essays

The BRICs have been portrayed as a new paradigm threatening the contemporary liberal world order. Yet, there is also disagreement and competition between BRICs states.

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