International Theory

The Non-Politics of the Responsibility to Protect Through a Securitisation Lens

Thomas Pritchard • Dec 17 2021 • Essays

For Libya, a revised securitisation framework categorises R2P as a pragmatic securitisation act-type, where non-political language justifies military action.

How Far Does Anime Challenge Joseph Nye’s ‘Soft Power’ and Its Approach to Culture?

Solomon Pace-McCarrick • Dec 11 2021 • Essays

Anime provides a lens through which we can rethink Joseph Nye’s state-centered theory of soft power and its cultural assumptions.

Old Wine, New Bottles: A Theoretical Analysis of Hybrid Warfare

Timothy Van der Venne • Nov 30 2021 • Essays

Contrasting classical strategic theory with modern-day practices allows analysts to identify where hybrid warfare fits into the broader field of strategic studies.

Socialism in India: Conflicting International Outlooks?

Saneet Chakradeo • Nov 24 2021 • Essays

Socialist ideology has developed and gained pertinence in Indian political thought: Two major diverging schools with differentiated international outlook exist.

Confronting Great Powers: New Zealand’s Nuclear Stance During the Cold War

Antonios Vitalis • Nov 18 2021 • Essays

Constructivism best reveals how France’s bombing of a Greenpeace protest vessel in 1982 emboldened and solidified New Zealand to pass the Nuclear Free New Zealand Act.

Is Nomothetic Knowledge Possible Within International Relations?

Kevin Thievon • Nov 11 2021 • Essays

This essay tries to contest positivist scholars who pretend to produce general laws in IR; reality is entangled in a historical, political, and social context.

Humanitarianism and Securitisation: Contradictions in State Responses to Migration

Juliette Howard • Nov 10 2021 • Essays

When co-opted and deployed by state actors, humanitarianism is far from benign or apolitical: it has very real and dangerous effects on the lives and rights of migrants.

Kant, Doyle, and the Democratic Peace Thesis: A Postcolonial Critique

Luca Poletti • Oct 20 2021 • Essays

The Democratic Peace Thesis fails to incorporate a Kantian philosophy, underscoring its imperialistic underpinnings and perpetuation of international conflict.

Protests as a Vehicle for Political Change

Marnix Middelburg • Oct 19 2021 • Essays

In Ethiopia, protests have been a useful tool to unite various groups into an organized collective with the goal of ‘breaking open’ the existing political system.

The Objectives of War: Glory and Justice, Advantage or Annihilation?

Kimberley Burton • Oct 14 2021 • Essays

While the modes and actors of war have evolved in a post-Cold War world, the critical military objectives of war Hans Speier first identified have remained the same.

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