Articles

Trump’s Dream and Tocqueville’s Nightmare

MJ Fox • Oct 12 2017 • Articles

The current erosion of agency amongst citizens in the U.S. is bringing us closer than ever to Tocqueville’s cautions of the path to despotism

Posthuman Security and Care in the Anthropocene

Cameron Harrington • Oct 10 2017 • Articles

The Anthropocene compels us to acknowledge how security interacts with diverse lifeworlds that exist around humans, acting in ways both pacific and threatening.

Hybridity and Humility: What of the Human in Posthuman Security?

Elke Schwarz • Oct 10 2017 • Articles

A challenge in modern thinking about technology is the gap between the technologies we produce and our imagination regarding the uses to which this technology is put.

Between Radical Posthumanism and Weak Anthropocentrism

Carolin Kaltofen • Oct 10 2017 • Articles

Analysing posthuman-ness calls into question whether posthuman IR is posthuman as none of IR’s posthumanesque disquisitions develop an ontology of the international.

‘Posthuman Security’: Reflections from an Open-ended Conversation

Audra Mitchell • Oct 8 2017 • Articles

Posthuman security discourse places both of its key terms ‘posthumanism’ and ‘security’ in constant question and refuses closure into any particular vision of either.

Posthuman International Relations

Matt McDonald and Audra Mitchell • Oct 5 2017 • Articles

A discussion of the posthuman and its relationship to the study of International Relations cannot be narrowly defined, nor can one voice provide conclusive definitions.

The German Election – What Does It Mean for Europe?

Charlotte Galpin • Oct 4 2017 • Articles

The election in Germany brings the country into line with other countries in Europe with strong right-wing populist parties.

Pop-Culture & Trump: Interviewing R. Sikoryak, Creator of the Unquotable Trump

Robert A. Saunders • Oct 1 2017 • Articles

Comics – and particularly some of the more epic battles between superheroes and super-villains – present an attractive medium for satirizing Trump.

What Do Karl Marx, Napoleon, and the Majlis Have in Common?

Patricia Sohn • Sep 29 2017 • Articles

Terms such as Political Science or Comparative Politics may carry many different significations at once. 

The Meaning of Marriage and Australia’s Postal Poll

Michael Quinlan • Sep 28 2017 • Articles

Changing Australia’s understanding of marriage may have significant implications for religious freedom, freedom of political communication and parental rights.

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