Global Ethics

International Law on Cyber Security in the Age of Digital Sovereignty

Abid A. Adonis • Mar 14 2020 • Essays

The present international law on cyber relations does not effectively apply to states given challenges of jurisdiction, arbitration, and legal instruments.

Revisiting Wendt: An Argument for the Normativity of Wendtian Constructivism

Daniel Boston • Mar 7 2020 • Essays

While Wendt does not offer a comprehensive ethical framework, he does have a normative side where he offers a goal to strive towards and a moral way for state to act.

Gendered Implications of Neoliberal Development Policies in Guangdong Province

Hannah Roberts • Mar 3 2020 • Essays

Development policies informed by neoliberal economics fail to challenge the underlying patriarchal structures that impede women’s development.

What’s Stopping Us? The Failures Behind Famine Prevention in the 21st Century

Ryan J. Bain • Mar 3 2020 • Essays

Famine classification should be based upon a combination of both quantitative and qualitative factors to improve international and local responses to the issue.

Dealing with Myanmar’s Past: A Call for a Truth Commission

Laura Huchet • Dec 29 2019 • Essays

The creation of a truth commission in Myanmar will address the country’s past and help overcome the current democratic deadlock without sacrificing past progress.

Reflexivity and Autobiography within International Relations Theory

Joseph Jarnecki • Dec 20 2019 • Essays

Autobiographical IR transcends an ontologically fixed subject and object, opting instead to deconstruct their nature and complicate their interactions with reflexivity.

Decolonising World Politics: Anti-Colonial Movements Beyond the Nation-State

Yatana Yamahata • Dec 15 2019 • Essays

Nationalism does not determine an anti-colonial movement’s success because it does not capture the transnational and intersectional nature of colonial legacies.

Buy Good, Do Good, Be Good? Ethical Consumption as Neoliberal Governmentality

Ruby Agatha Utting • Nov 24 2019 • Essays

Neoliberal capitalism is reproduced by discourse of ethical consumption as a global-corporate and individualised conflation of the economic and social spheres.

The Carter Administration and Human Rights in Chile, 1977-81

Joseph Creffield • Nov 14 2019 • Essays

Jimmy Carter ignored human rights abuses perpetuated by the Pinochet regime and only responded if the threat was to do with containing the communist threat in Chile.

Security Implications of the Export of Chinese Surveillance Systems

Vincent Boucher • Oct 16 2019 • Essays

China legitimizes its position in the world by promoting its surveillance state model as a stable alternative to democracies and other autocracies.

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