Regions

Can China Continue to Rise Peacefully?

Sam Welsh • Feb 21 2019 • Essays

China’s economic and political rise is unlikely to be peaceful in the medium to long-term scope of US-China relations due to its pursuit of an aggressive foreign policy.

Why Are Feminist Theorists in International Relations so Critical of UNSCR 1325?

Georgina Langdon • Feb 11 2019 • Essays

UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security offered policy recommendations that failed to make significant changes to women and girls in areas of armed conflict.

To What Extent Was the NATO Intervention in Libya a Humanitarian Intervention?

Matthew Green • Feb 6 2019 • Essays

Given the evidence of NATO’s emphasis on regime change, actions taken by NATO in the Libyan intervention showcase how the intervention was not strictly humanitarian.

A Critical Assessment of Eco-Marxism: A Ghanaian Case Study

Anna Carter-Roberts • Feb 4 2019 • Essays

While Eco-Marxism successfully identifies factors that facilitate illegal gold-mining in Ghana, it struggles to provide a coherent solution to the problems it highlights.

A Constructivist Approach to Chinese Interest Formation in the South China Sea

Max Freundlieb • Feb 2 2019 • Essays

Analysis focusing mainly on security, power and wealth in the case of the South China Sea would be fatal, as this approach would lead straight into Thucydides’ Trap.

Capitalism and the Rise of New Slavery: From Slave Trade to Slave in Trade

Akshat Sogani • Feb 2 2019 • Essays

To confront new slavery, we need to realise the paradoxes in the West and start questioning basic ideas including sovereignty, freedom and realism as an ideology.

Australia on the United Nations Security Council 2013-14: An Evaluation

Georgia Lloyd • Jan 19 2019 • Essays

While Australia did have a chance to exert some influence and produce resolutions, the state’s time at the forefront of the Council was not entirely successful.

Queering the Chilean Armada from the Inside Out?

Elias Dehnen • Jan 17 2019 • Essays

Mauricio Ruiz embodies various meanings which contest binary interpretive frameworks aiming to categorize him according to an either/or logic.

“Sanctions Are Coming”: Fear and Iranophobia in American Foreign Policy

Sagnik Guha • Jan 7 2019 • Essays

Iran’s characterization as a great threat in the Middle East is largely a result of institutionalized “Iranophobia” within American foreign policy.

Globalisation, Agency, Theory: A Critical Analysis of Marxism in Light of Brexit

Johanna Siebert • Jan 5 2019 • Essays

Despite an increasing degree of economic integration, Marxist theory must consider geopolitical competition in the relationship between capitalism and the state system.

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