Eligibilizing Certain Populations: Hindutva Politics Of UP Population Bill 2021
The 2021 UP Population Bill enables the UP state to consolidate focus on Hindutva politics that deploys aggressive policing of women and their reproductive capacities.
Gramscian Notions: Helpful for Research into Digital and Tech Corporations?
Analysing Big Tech as a transnational capitalist class, Gramscian thought provides an outlook on possible avenues of governance of the digital sphere.
Neo and the ‘Hacker Paradox’: A Discussion on the Securitization of Cyberspace
Characterization of hackers as ‘IT professionals’ or as ‘computer hackers’ by the state influences the dynamics of cyberspace securitization.
Tracing Hobbes in Realist International Relations Theory
Is the classification of Thomas Hobbes as a realist an oversimplification? This essay critiques the adoption of his political thought by classical and neo-realists.
To Reform the World or to Close the System? International Law and World-making
A comparative investigation of two scholarly works on the development of international law in its context of the international system.
Neorealism: Internal Debates and Relevance to Space Militarisation
This essay explores the contention of neorealism with other strands of realist thinking, as well as applies neorealism to explain the continuing space militarisation.
No Peace Without Justice: The Denial of Transitional Justice in Post-2001 Afghanistan
The denial of transitional justice in post-9/11 Afghanistan ignored Afghan demands for meaningful truth, justice and reconciliation.
Is War A Social Construction?
It is argued that war is a social construct bound by certain a priori biases that shape the nature of social interactions and interpersonal relations.
North Korea’s Withdrawal from the NPT: Neorealism and Selectorate Theory
Both neorealism and the selectorate theory show that North Korea’s demand for nuclear weapons strongly correlates with a large US military presence in East Asia.
The Limits of the Scientific Method in International Relations
While positivism has brought a sense of rigor and academic framework to study international politics, it obscures some crucial truths.
