Globalisation has strained the present system of global governance due to the influence of emerging economic powers and a deficit in legitimacy.
Does espionage operate on a legal-until-caught basis? This depends on how states – and international law – conceptualise state sovereignty.
The current search for a global or “non-Western” security studies is futile as the discipline was inherently made, not for the “globe”, but by and for the West.
Cyberspace actors operate outside the bounds of the traditional social contract, but cyber sovereigns could emerge under a new conception of sovereignty.
Dominant abstractions within IR theory are limited in transformative potential, opposing their racialized logics creates a starting point for alternative abstractions.
A cosmopolitan world order underpinned by democracy is both a possible and a necessary outcome for international relations.
This essay seeks to refine Organski’s Power Transition Theory by decoupling the dominant state from the world system it embodies.
A critical approach to norms opens a new avenue for the field to study the contributions of social movements to International Relations.
An social constructivist analysis of emergent cyber-security norms illustrates the process of norm construction in the international security realm.
The question of security is ever topical, and this essay addresses the ‘my’ of spaces and how we can conceptualise them.
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