Private Military Companies and Sacrifice: Reshaping State Sovereignty
The use of private military companies by states fundamentally alters a crucial tenant of sovereign power during war with regard to national sacrifice.
Liberal Peace and Its Crisis: The Revival of Authoritarianism
Only a renewed commitment to liberal peace can prevent authoritarian states from enforcing a new paradigm of illiberal peace.
ISIS, Radicalization and the Gendered Online Jihad
Female foreign recruits to ISIS are an important, though often-ignored, part of the organization. All ISIS recruits contribute to state-building in gendered ways.
Is There a Right to Secession in International Law?
There is minimal and conflicting evidence in regard to the application of the right to remedial secession in practice, requiring consolidation from the ICJ.
Problematic Positivism: A Post-structural Critique of Power under Neorealism
Post-structuralism’s understanding of power, intertwined with knowledge, successfully challenges neorealism’s dominant, but strictly positivist, perspective.
Gilpinian Realism and Peaceful Change: The Coming Sino-American Power Transition
Despite predictions of a future Sino-American war due to China’s rise to power, the US could and should retrench—as it is imperially overstretched—to avoid conflict.
There Is No Attribution Problem, Only a Diplomatic One
Although cyberattacks can be attributed with high confidence, plausible deniability allows perpetrators to escape punishment.
International Law on Cyber Security in the Age of Digital Sovereignty
The present international law on cyber relations does not effectively apply to states given challenges of jurisdiction, arbitration, and legal instruments.
Is the Military a Masculinised Expression of Society?
The military is representative of an international political landscape in which masculinity is considered natural and superior to feminine traits.
Visceralities of the Border: Contemporary Border Regimes in a Globalised World
Inverting the premise of the borderless capitalist landscape, it is argued that the border is constitutive of capitalism and at the heart of social life today.
