International Relations Is Not Post Postcolonialism in the Twenty-First Century
The Rana Plaza collapse was an event that made Postcolonialism and World Systems Theory come into consideration.
Analysing Chinese Foreign Policy
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
Post-development should open space in a previously colonised field for alternative ontologies on the nature of being and concepts of a good society.
A Peaceful Resolution: Analysing Sustained Peace and Order in Mizoram
Post insurgency, Mizoram provides a stark exception to the usually politically volatile and unstable post-conflict situations that do not maintain peace.
How Do Travel Vlogs Contribute to GDP’s Dominance in World Politics?
Through their introduction, plot and characters, Western travel narratives in YouTube vlogs exoticize Gross National Happiness and normalise the GDP development paradigm.
Struggle and Success of Chinese Soft Power: The Case of China in South Asia
Has China’s cultural and material export led recipients to desire what it does? Focused on South Asia, this essay evaluates China’s notion of and struggle for soft power.
Threatening Engagement: Regional Hegemons and Terrorist Groups
Counter-terrorism tends to be employed in case of a threat to regional hegemon’s economic capabilities, allies or geopolitical interests.
Religious Foundations of Indian Territorial Imagination
Despite the diversity of identities within India, the existence of the Indian nation within the boundaries of British-controlled territories of India was unquestionable.
At The Brink of Nuclear War: (Mis)Perceptions & The Kargil Crisis
During the Kargil crisis, while Pakistan underestimated India’s responses to its transgression, India underestimated the possibility and capability of Pakistan’s advance.
Statehood in Modern International Community: Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia
Comparative analysis highlighted how the support of Great Powers with strong alliance-building capacities is a key element to exert statehood in the international arena.
