Understanding Power in Counterinsurgency: A Case Study of the Soviet-Afghanistan War
To be successful, counterinsurgency operations must expand beyond a solely militaristic conception of power to include soft power and popular support.
Agonizing Assemblages: The Slow Violence of Garbage in the Yemeni Civil War
The war in Yemen has created a garbage collection crisis which is enacting a slow violence against Yemenites who suffer negative health and environmental effects.
Women in International Migration: Transnational Networking and the Global Labor Force
Many countries require a complete reconstruction of their immigration policy to meet international migration demands and basic standards of human dignity.
Global Covid-19 Responses Through a Critical Security Studies Perspective
The current COVID-19 response is dominated by traditional security notions of state-centrality which fail to understand the broad implications of the pandemic.
Jus Commercium Armis: Amidst the Abyss of Arms
The ethics of the arms trade can be looked from contrasting political, economic, legal and theoretical viewpoints.
How Has the Evolution of Production Chains Affected Women and Children?
Global and local production chains increase levels of precarity and informality of labour, with little legal and social protection, especially for women and children.
Women, Peace and… Continued Militarism? Revisiting UNSCR 1325 and Its African Roots
Women play a valuable role in peacekeeping in African contexts. However, their participation in stereotypically gendered peace processes and structures is not enough.
Are We at War? The Politics of Securitizing the Coronavirus
Amidst calls for solidarity, referring to COVID-19 as a war decreases the potential for a coordinated global effort in responding to the challenges the pandemic poses.
An Outdated Debate? Neorealism’s Limitations and the Wisdom of Classical Realism
Classical Realism proves superior to Neorealism by including the interplay between morality and power alongside that of agency and structure.
The Sound of the Egyptian Subaltern in 2011 Revolutionary Protest Songs
The analysis of music broadens the scope of Subaltern Studies within International Relations by revealing new voices and insights.
