Although oil is significant for Chinese economic development, the country’s ‘peaceful rise’ advocated as Chinese strategy of development should be called into question.
Introduction of combat soldiers reaffirms China’s commitment to support the fulfillment of UN peacekeeping mandates—mandates that China endorsed in the Security Council.
Whilst on the surface Scandal appears to make bold feminist statements, in depth discourse analysis reveals that this is not the case.
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.
The morality of states approach, which defends both universal and non-universal moral duties, implies people can hold cosmopolitan and communitarian notions concurrently.
The construction of specific, politicised forms of representations for actions, subjects, and states have a critical role in shaping security discourses.
Daenerys Targaryen’s rule over the city-state of Meereen in A Song of Ice and Fire is a perfect sample to demonstrate and test contemporary theories of statebuilding.
Africa is experiencing a mobile revolution. Chinese telecommunication companies are playing a significant role in this.
While the Parliament’s powers have increased considerably since 2007, the Lisbon Treaty’s aim to eradicate the democratic deficit in the European Union has not been met.
Challenging the academic consensus, the discussion and application of ripeness theory to concrete cases demonstrates the deficiency of notions of ‘ripe moments’.
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