Regions

On Memes and Men: How Gendered Memes Influenced Trump’s 2016 Election Legitimacy

Sofia Romansky • Aug 26 2020 • Essays

Gendered memes aided Trump’s election by representing him as a hyper-masculine leader, granting him authoritative power and reinforcing his positive political identity.

US Counter-Terrorism and Right-Wing Fundamentalism

James Greenhalgh • Aug 26 2020 • Essays

The US counter-terrorism strategy must include right-wing fundamentalism and not purely focus on Islamic radicalisation.

A New Grand Strategy for a New World Order: US Disengagement from Sub-Saharan Africa

Lila Ovington • Aug 19 2020 • Essays

The post-Cold War grand strategy of the US appeared to make little space for sub-Saharan Africa after losing its ‘utility’ as a platform for East-West proxy conflicts.

Friend or Foe? Explaining the Philippines’ China Policy in the South China Sea

Brenda Tan • Aug 10 2020 • Essays

Role theory explains tensions within the Philippines’ policy towards China in the South China Sea by examining contesting role conceptions in the Duterte administration.

Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Rita Deliperi • Aug 9 2020 • Essays

The role the Christian Church played has come to represent one of heaviest failures of Christian ethics and the institutions that profess and practice its commandments.

A See-Saw Relationship: An Overview of Afghanistan’s Ties with India and Pakistan

Hargun Sethi • Aug 6 2020 • Essays

Afghanistan’s foreign policy toward India has always been the antithesis of its foreign policy toward Pakistan across three governments since 1996.

Analysing the ‘Special Relationship’ between the US and UK in a Transatlantic Context

Anna Pitts-Tucker • Aug 2 2020 • Essays

The term ‘Special Relationship’ has defined the alliance between the US and UK. Does it dominate all Transatlantic relations or is it contingent on convenience and context?

Commemorating Srebrenica: The “Inadequate” Truth of the Female Victim Experience

Victoria Hospodaryk • Jul 30 2020 • Essays

A meaningful reconciliation for Bosnian Muslim victims is largely contingent on the construction of a “collective memory” of Srebrenica, built on the female narrative.

Neocolonialism in J.A. Bayona’s ‘The Impossible’

Kate Williams • Jul 27 2020 • Essays

The popular ‘rose tinted’ depiction of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami justifies the Global North’s neocolonial foreign aid strategies.

State Feminism and the Islamist-Secularist Binary: Women’s Rights in Tunisia

Kira Jinkinson • Jul 27 2020 • Essays

Contrary to the standard narratives promoted in the West, the coming to power of an Islamist party in Tunisia has not been detrimental to women’s rights.

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