Articles

Defining Post-truth: Structures, Agents, and Styles

Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen • Oct 22 2018 • Articles

Factual truth has a limited but indispensable role to play in pluralistic politics, comparable to material environment that both enables and limits democratic debate.

Undoing Sovereignty/Identity, Queering the ‘International’: The Politics of Law

Po-Han Lee • Oct 22 2018 • Articles

For the rights of human race in the field of IR, the ‘international’ needs to be deconstructed and reordered in a non-state centric and non-heteronormative manner.

International Travel Is a Risky Business: Research, Study, & Proselytizing

Patricia Sohn • Oct 21 2018 • Articles

When travelling abroad, there are typically no rights to protest nor to challenge or undermine laws in a foreign national context.

Settler Colonialism and Financial Exclusion of Banks in the English Caribbean

Tamanisha J. John • Oct 20 2018 • Articles

To cement the notions of African and Indian inferiority to whiteness, their lack of credit worthiness and inability to manage local banks, were used as proof. 

Transitional Justice in Tunisia: Any Role for Islam?

Elham Kazemi • Oct 19 2018 • Articles

The legacy of strict state control of religion combined with the violent crackdown on Islamic movements impacted the politics of state building after the revolution.

Rethinking World Systems Theory and Hegemony: Towards a Marxist-Realist Synthesis

Madison Cartwright • Oct 18 2018 • Articles

Realist and Marxist theories analyse the international economy as one of hierarchies that territorially partition the world and concentrate economic wealth within states.

Cold War Theories, War on Terror Practices

Edwin Daniel Jacob • Oct 18 2018 • Articles

Old reference points no longer hold in an age marked by transnational security threats that do not align with traditional security frameworks.

Non-Refoulement Obligations in Offshore Detention Facilities

Jenny Poon • Oct 16 2018 • Articles

Cooperation with third States where refugees are sent to be detained in offshore detention facilities would lead to a violation of non-refoulement indirectly.

International Relations Theory and the ‘Islamic State’

S. Yaqub Ibrahimi • Oct 15 2018 • Articles

Integrating the root causes of the formation of IS in a systematic framework gives an inclusive and representative image of the formation of this organization.

Social Media Europe and the Rise of Comedy in Global Diplomacy

James Brasset and Christopher Browning • Oct 14 2018 • Articles

As the EU seeks to rebuild its public image in terms that millennials understand, it cannot laugh away the hierarchical power relations that pushed it to this point.

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