Articles

Turkish Presidential Elections and the Kurdish Peace Process

Sibel Oktay • Aug 10 2014 • Articles

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will most likely be elected as the next president of Turkey. If not, expect to see progress on the Kurdish peace process from the AKP government.

What Would a Brexit Mean for the EU?

Tim Oliver • Aug 10 2014 • Articles

The amount of leverage the threat of Brexit has for the UK depends not so much on what the UK contributes to the EU but about how valued that contribution is by the EU.

Publicizing the US National Security State through Entertainment

David Grondin • Aug 6 2014 • Articles

In looking at the national security state entertainment complex, one can get to the core of the security and pop culture nexus in a more-than-representational way.

Inoculating against Politics

Laura Routley • Aug 5 2014 • Articles

Development agencies have started to engage more with the political nature of development. However the nature of politics is that what is ‘right’ is always contestable.

Tunisia’s Upcoming Elections amid Strategic Reshaping of Coalitions

Pietro Longo • Aug 5 2014 • Articles

To govern a country in transition that is facing several internal problems, stability is needed and could be reached by a deal between the two biggest parties.

Embodied Subjectivities in International Relations

Lauren Wilcox • Aug 5 2014 • Articles

Theories of war and violence in IR depend on assumptions about the relationship between bodies, subjectivity, and violence that are often more implicit than explicit.

R2P in Gaza: A Long Overdue Debate

Coralie Hindawi • Aug 4 2014 • Articles

If R2P will not save lives as quickly as one would like it to, its application to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can serve the search for a peaceful and just solution.

Expanding the Constitutional Role of Japan’s Military

David Arase • Aug 3 2014 • Articles

The limited expansion of the concept of self-defense has symbolic and practical significance for Japanese foreign and security policy and for the regional order.

Video Games and the Simulation of International Conflict

Marcus Schulzke • Aug 1 2014 • Articles

As with other media, games are open to multiple interpretations and can be politically significant in different ways depending on which interpretations they can sustain.

Mental Health and Student Welfare: A Student Reflection

Siân Hampson • Jul 31 2014 • Articles

Getting the support that you are legally entitled to, and you deserve, shouldn’t be shameful or difficult. If I didn’t get it, my degree would have finished prematurely.

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