Essays

Towards Mature Justice: Expanding the ICC’s Independent Oversight Mechanism

Emily Tsui • Oct 11 2015 • Essays

The ICC would benefit from an extension of the IOM’s mandate to include the oversight of intermediaries used in the OTP as it will improve the Court’s judicial process.

Was Britain a ‘Good International Citizen’ under the Blair Government?

Lewis Stott • Oct 11 2015 • Essays

Whilst it may be a stretch to call Britain a GIC under Blair, he certainly presided over a distinct change in the use of ethics and morality in FP decisions.

White Women War Reporters: Interrogating the ‘Third Gender’ Category

Alex Edney-Browne • Oct 9 2015 • Essays

White women war reporters are being classified as a third gender, enabling them to break into the war reporting career, but this only perpetuates patriarchal ideas.

A Fight for Statehood? ISIS and Its Quest for Political Domination

Adele Belanger-McMurdo • Oct 5 2015 •

Although it exhibits certain state-like qualities, the Islamic State is rejected as an official, independent, and sovereign state under international law.

The Dilemma of Middle Eastern Democracy

Ahmed Elsayed • Oct 4 2015 • Essays

The seemingly infertile soil for democracy in the Middle East can be better understood by primarily examining the hindering role of the coercive apparatus in the region.

The Financial Crisis: Banking, Bankruptcy and the Origins of the Crash

Elizabeth Feeney • Oct 4 2015 • Essays

The behaviour of banks preceding the global financial crisis must be understood in relation to the complex interdependencies between agency, institution and structure.

How Has China Been Safeguarding Its Oil Imports from the Middle East and Africa?

Nikola Zadzorova • Oct 4 2015 • Essays

Although oil is significant for Chinese economic development, the country’s ‘peaceful rise’ advocated as Chinese strategy of development should be called into question.

Crouching Tiger, Blue Helmet: Chinese Combat Troops in UN Peace Operations

Adam Moscoe • Oct 3 2015 • Essays

Introduction of combat soldiers reaffirms China’s commitment to support the fulfillment of UN peacekeeping mandates—mandates that China endorsed in the Security Council.

Does “Scandal” Challenge the Dominance of the ‘male-stream’ in World Politics?

Sophie Puet • Oct 2 2015 • Essays

Whilst on the surface Scandal appears to make bold feminist statements, in depth discourse analysis reveals that this is not the case.

United by Strength or Oppression? A Critique of the Western Model of Feminism

Ioana Cerasella Chis • Sep 29 2015 • Essays

The white, Western model of feminism complies and converges with the development-industrial complex such that the concerns of women in the Global South are distorted.

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