While a human security approach to combat human trafficking has gained support, a feminist security approach is required to fully protect victims of human trafficking.
The Assad regime’s securitisation and violent crackdowns led to “counter-sectarianisation” in the Sunni opposition, accelerating Syria’s descent into a civil war.
The response to the question of whether terrorism works depends how the term “terrorism” is defined and what it means for it to “work.”
Pakistan bases its irredentist claim toward Kashmir on a instrumentalisation of Islam and the primordial view that a common Muslim identity should lead to unification.
On the basis of three case studies of Western and Soviet espionage, this essay will argue that espionage did affect the policies of the Cold War.
The Refugee Deal translates through a Western-dominate racialized and gendered logic of protection that does not effectively protect the refugees it targets and impacts.
UN peacekeeping’s assimilation of counterterrorism rhetoric has incentivised self-interested European military contributions to the UN mission in Mali.
Fragmentation in global security governance is normal and inevitable. In fact, the focus should shift to finding means of increasing and ensuring stability in cyberspace.
Securitisation Theory provides a lens by which the UK and US governments’ advocacy of wearing face coverings to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 can be contrasted.
Climate change should be explicitly recognised by states as an existential threat to human security and related measures should immediately be implemented.
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