International Theory

Customary Morality: First-Best Principles for Immigration Policies

Leonardo Quattrucci • Jul 20 2013 • Essays

States must evaluate immigrants’ claims, backgrounds, and relationship with the rights of the insiders and design their immigration policies as reflections of their constitutional values.

Famine and Undernutrition as Security Issues

James Cole • Jul 12 2013 • Essays

Human security is a useful way to study food insecurity, as it moves away from an exclusive focus on the state, whose security does not equate with the security of the individual.

Emerging Ethnic Hatred in Jonglei State, South Sudan

Yuki Yoshida • Jul 11 2013 • Essays

Trapped in an ethnic security dilemma, the Lou Neur and Murle in South Sudan have entered into an ethnic conflict in which they compete over scarce resources for cattle grazing.

Ideas and Materials in IR

Abigail Temperley • Jul 3 2013 • Essays

An examination of Great Britain’s acceptance into the European Economic Community in 1973 rekindles the agent-structure conversation in international relations.

Habermas, Dialogue, and Change in the International System

Camille Marquis • Jun 28 2013 • Essays

Habermas argues that the nature of dialogue can yield positive change, but can his theory apply to conversations in international organizations?

The Failings of Liberal Modernisation Theory

Thomas M. Dunn • Jun 26 2013 • Essays

Liberal modernisation theory is a one-size-fits-all approach towards development, which cannot succeed, given the vast socio-economic and political differences throughout the world.

On Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

Joshua Fenlon • Jun 21 2013 • Essays

The transformation from human day laborer to insect mirrors both Marx’s critique of capitalist society and Darwin’s theories of evolution, but does this inspire political revolt?

Can Constructivism Explain the Arab Spring?

Susanne Hartmann • Jun 19 2013 • Essays

Though not without limitations, social constructivism remains one of the most useful theories in examining the Arab Spring as a response to social forces and a globalization of norms.

Realism: The Domination of Security Studies

Emily Tripp • Jun 14 2013 • Essays

The definition of security has expanded significantly. Now under the remit of security are issues beyond territorial conflicts and inter-state aggression.

US Grand Strategy Options

Leigh Crowley • Jun 13 2013 • Essays

Given the apparent demise of the liberal hegemonic order, the US should fuse offshore balancing and liberal internationalism grand strategies to maintain a ‘first among equals’ global position.

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