Regions

The Battle of Austerlitz and the Utility of Game Theory for Operational Analysis

Joshua Lehmann • Apr 9 2024 • Essays

Game theory allows analysts to model even complex battlefield scenarios, enabling past and future military operations to be simulated and alternative courses of action compared.

From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability

Chenglong Yin • Mar 23 2024 • Essays

Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.

Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?

Yesun Kim • Mar 22 2024 • Essays

The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric.

Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture

Chenjun Wang • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea’s strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational’ security choices during the Cold War and now.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji

Sarah Furman • Feb 29 2024 • Essays

Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.

The Origins of Regionalism in the EU and ASEAN

Dominika Remžová • Feb 25 2024 • Essays

Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.

Havoc to Hope: Electoral Violence in the Kenya 2022 General Election

Peter Rowan • Feb 24 2024 • Essays

The 2022 election was not marred by violence due to an interaction between elite incentives and opportunities for violence, institutional constraints, and civil society efforts.

Australia, China, and the Darwin Port Lease as a Public-Private Partnership

Robin Pelenyi • Feb 24 2024 • Essays

The Darwin Port lease was justified by privileging market values, but trouble emerged when it became necessary to incorporate non-market national security values.

Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth

Evie Celeste Wayne • Dec 25 2023 • Essays

The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.

Colombia and Chile: How Parties and Ideologies Affect LGBTQ+ Identities

James Manville • Dec 13 2023 • Essays

While Chile and Colombia have unique political landscapes, the recent emergence of leftist leaders indicates a shifting societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.

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