Asia/Pacific

Horizontal Partnership for Gender-responsive Localisation of Humanitarian Aid

Shrinwanti Mistri • Jul 6 2023 • Essays

The key to efficient localisation is addressing the intra-local horizontal power hierarchies capable of simultaneously fostering gender-responsive localisation.

From Deployment to Withdrawal: The C-17 Transport Plane in the Afghanistan War

Aineias Engstrom • Jun 6 2023 • Essays

Whose security the C-17 promoted or endangered varied, depending on U.S. political objectives and other components of the war’s security assemblage.

Nirbhaya, #MeToo & Orientalism in Transnational Gender Politics

Poorvika Mehra • May 18 2023 • Essays

The propagation of neo-colonial Oriental epistemes detracts from ‘mainstream’ feminism aims by generating a cultural divide between East and West.

China’s Take on Changing Global Space Governance: A Moral Realist Argument

Lea Marlene Korb • Apr 23 2023 • Essays

China aims to reposition itself within and change the current system of global space governance by increasing its strategic credibility through moral conduct in space.

On the Role of Intelligence in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War

Pieter Zhao • Mar 22 2023 • Essays

The answer to whether intelligence reduces uncertainty or overcomplicates the decision-making process lies somewhere in between.

Cartographic Domination in British India

Mack Clayton • Feb 28 2023 • Essays

As the authoritative text and imbued with colonial power, maps deeply affected how Indians related to their surroundings and their history and culture.

The BRI in Kazakhstan: The Chinese Dream with Kazakh Characteristics?

Antonios Vitalis • Feb 26 2023 • Essays

The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative’s ability to align with its principle of win-win in Kazakhstan has proved successful, particularly in the Nurly Zhol project.

International Relations Is Not Post Postcolonialism in the Twenty-First Century

Maya Dotson • Jan 31 2023 • Essays

The Rana Plaza collapse was an event that made Postcolonialism and World Systems Theory come into consideration.

Analysing Chinese Foreign Policy

Ian Seow Cheng Wei • Jan 26 2023 • Essays

Xi Jinping’s forceful, ambitious and Machiavellian personality is key to understanding China’s foreign policy in recent years.

Modernities for ‘Alternatives to Development’: Vietnamese Colonial Modernity

Cara Peters • Jan 5 2023 • Essays

Post-development should open space in a previously colonised field for alternative ontologies on the nature of being and concepts of a good society.

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