Articles

Colonial Animality: Canadian Colonialism and the Human-Animal Relationship

Azeezah Kanji • Jul 3 2017 • Articles

De-anthropocentricizing ventures that do not decolonize are perilous, for neither non-human nor human colonial subjects can be ‘recognized’ into liberation.

The Ukraine Crisis – Four Cutting Edge Books

E-International Relations • Jul 1 2017 • Articles

E-International Relations has published four books covering the Ukraine crisis from a wide range of angles and viewpoints. Each book is free to read.

Decolonising the Anthropocene: The Mytho-Politics of Human Mastery

Karsten A. Schulz • Jul 1 2017 • Articles

The Anthropocene discussion has moved beyond questions of mere geological evidence, providing the ‘natural’ foundations for the idea of human mastery over the earth.

Ontologicidal Violence: The Muslim Subject and International Law

Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal • Jul 1 2017 • Articles

International law is premised on a hierarchical organizing of cultures, and is therefore critically unstable because its own biases undermine its claims to universality.

Brexit: The View from Czechia

Tomáš Weiss • Jun 30 2017 • Articles

Brexit has launched a general debate, which is long overdue, on what the Czech position in the EU and on the EU is and should be.

Drone Technology and the Trump Doctrine

Mary Ellen O'Connell and Brian Boyd • Jun 29 2017 • Articles

Trump is not breaking new ground in using greater lethal force than predecessors and ignoring international law, rather taking the direction towards a logical conclusion.

A Potential Shift in the Political Undertones of Professional Wrestling

Anubhav Roy • Jun 27 2017 • Articles

Jinder Mahal’s case could usher a paradigm shift for the pro-wrestling industry, but only time would tell how long this atypical political correctness shall last.

Multiculturalism at the Crossroads: Learning Beyond the West

Marc Woons • Jun 27 2017 • Articles

The goal of multiculturism is to improve on peace, tolerance, and respect across differences whether small or great no matter where one begins or where one is going.

Afro-pessimism, Fugitivity, and the Border to Social Death

Paula von Gleich • Jun 27 2017 • Articles

Fugitivity might indeed function as a figure of thought that enables us to better appreciate fugitive practices of survival and resistance in the face of social death.

Teaching Our Students to Critique Again

Dillon Tatum • Jun 26 2017 • Articles

Failing to teach our international relations/politics is a failure to guide students in the process of developing their own value judgments.

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