Sovereignty with Chinese Characteristics? Norms in a Changing World Order
The contradiction between China’s discourse on and practices of sovereignty constitutes a form of ‘organized hypocrisy’, explicable by the logic of capitalist expansion.
The Anomaly of Democracy: Why Securitization Theory Fails to Explain January 6th
Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
Preventing Apocalyptic Futures: The Need for Alternatives to Development
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward
The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.
Queer Oppression in the Global South and the Structural Violence of Development
Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.
Frantz Fanon and the Inefficacy of Anti-colonial Violence
A more effective way of combatting colonial immanent violence is to dismantle the racialised and gendered discourses that make this violence possible.
An Ontological Review of Wendt’s ‘Anarchy Is What States Make of It’
Due to Wendt’s ontological-epistemological choices, he is unable to challenge neorealist assumptions about the nature of international relations.
International Relations Is Not Post Postcolonialism in the Twenty-First Century
The Rana Plaza collapse was an event that made Postcolonialism and World Systems Theory come into consideration.
Modernities for ‘Alternatives to Development’: Vietnamese Colonial Modernity
Post-development should open space in a previously colonised field for alternative ontologies on the nature of being and concepts of a good society.
How Do Travel Vlogs Contribute to GDP’s Dominance in World Politics?
Through their introduction, plot and characters, Western travel narratives in YouTube vlogs exoticize Gross National Happiness and normalise the GDP development paradigm.
