International Theory

Does Gender Shape the War System and Vice Versa?

Ibtisam Ahmed • Nov 16 2014 • Essays

Contemporary perceptions of combatants underline how the masculine–aggressive and feminine–passive nexus still lies at the heart of gender and the war system.

Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Gendering Violence through Johan Galtung  

Ellie Swingewood • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

By utilising gender as a key conceptual tool of analysis, different dimensions of the impact of the Syrian conflict on displaced populations can be examined.

How Have Austerity Measures Undermined Peruvian Women’s Reproductive Rights?

Sophia Gore • Nov 10 2014 • Essays

Under the guise of women’s ‘empowerment’ and and ‘rights to ones own body,’ Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori disguised the economic ideology of the regime.

Popular Culture & the Representation of Women’s ‘Agency’ During Indian Partition

Arpita Roy • Nov 5 2014 • Essays

From popular culture in India, we can identify examples of the strategic deployment of women’s agency. Discussions of agency are necessary for feminist resistance.

Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy Trends and Interactions with Native Americans

Seth Hopkins • Oct 31 2014 • Essays

Certain trends in American foreign policy can be better understood when seen as framed by the context of interactions with Native Americans

Does Realism Constitute a Recipe for a More Dangerous World?

Veronica Kate Coates • Oct 22 2014 • Essays

Criticisms that Realism constitutes a recipe for a dangerous world are misplaced, and are largely based upon inaccurately viewing neorealism and realism as synonymous.

Legitimacy and the US-led Invasion of Iraq

Camille Mulcaire • Oct 17 2014 • Essays

The existence of legitimate norms & principles within international society did, in fact, exert influence over the US’ behaviour in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

A Critical Analysis of Walt’s Concept of Security

Veronica Kate Coates • Oct 9 2014 • Essays

Whilst Walt’s concept of security may be limited in scope, he nevertheless offers valuable and sobering guidance to security studies.

An Examination of Russia’s Foreign Policy Through The Clash of Civilizations

Matthew Rae • Oct 8 2014 • Essays

Russia’s actions of late are difficult to understand through traditional paradigms, but Huntington’s Clash of Civilization paradigm offers a holistic view of the crisis.

The Effects of the Mexican Drug Trade over the Past Sixty Years

Michael E K Jones • Oct 5 2014 • Essays

Drug trade has manufactured a deterioration of the federal state, but alarmist discourse conflates heterogeneous local effects with political issues at the national level

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