International Security

Everyday Insecurity in Gaza: Experiencing Blockade, Displacement and Panopticism

Nicholas McGrath • Dec 12 2024 • Essays

Violence in both war and colonialism occurs in everyday administration via persistent technologies and the slow violence of caloric, infrastructural, and spatial control.

Lone-Wolf Terrorism: A Threat to Public Safety or A Catalyst for Public Hysteria?

Katie Malkin • Nov 20 2024 • Essays

The momentary usefulness of lone-wolf terrorism concept is just the tip of the iceberg; its potential in contemporary responses to the threat in a modernised era is massive.

The F-16 Coalition for Ukraine: Small State Status-Seeking Through Donations

Jelle van den Wijngaard • Nov 19 2024 • Essays

Dutch F-16 donations to Ukraine were partly an international status-seeking act, a “good behavior” that gained the Netherlands prestige and saw Rutte become NATO Secretary General.

Imperialism in Contemporary Russian Liberalism: Alexei Navalny’s Rhetoric

Gabriele Kaminskaite • Oct 25 2024 • Essays

Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government’s control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny’s rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.

Game Theory and Non-Alignment: India’s Position in the Russia-Ukraine War

Smriti Kolar • Oct 18 2024 • Essays

For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.

The Oslo Process: The Façade of Peace between Palestine and Israel

Maria Gilani • Oct 12 2024 • Essays

Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.

Gender and Weaponization of Healthcare in Conflict: A Feminist Discourse Analysis

Alba Andrés Sánchez • Sep 17 2024 • Essays

The gendered analysis of weaponization of healthcare reveals how when it is combined with sexual violence women are exposed to a compounded form of violence.

An Embodiment, a Bridge and a Tribute: Conceptualisations from Beyond the Border

Isabella Morgan Vera • Sep 2 2024 • Essays

Border art re-conceptualises the US-Mexico border by engendering an aesthetic experience fractured from the hierarchical and hegemonic ‘distribution of the sensible’.

Nuclear Brinkmanship in Russia Today: A Strategic Narrative Analysis

Lea Marlene Korb • Jul 29 2024 • Essays

RT portrays the international system as a new Cold War system with a nuclear face-off between two superpowers and Russia as facing nuclear threats from Ukraine and NATO.

Emerging and Disruptive Technologies: New Weapons in the Making?

Allison Tan • Jun 17 2024 • Essays

The discourse surrounding the military adoption of EDTs and its etymological implications highlight how the topic seems to generate more insecurity than security.

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