Essays

Incubators of Terror: Anatomising the Determinants of Domestic Terrorism

Blair Welsh • Nov 11 2018 • Essays

The presence of domestic terrorism in a state is linked to government strength and the territorial control of the terrorist organizations themselves.

Van Beersum Affair: The Right to Participate in the Parliament of the Streets

Sass Rogando Sasot • Nov 7 2018 • Essays

Because of the principle of territorial sovereignty, every sovereign state possesses the power to exclude non-citizens from participating in political affairs.

Perpetual Conflict of ‘Turkishness’: The Turkish State and its Minority Groups.

Elizabete Aunina • Nov 4 2018 • Essays

Turkishness identity has an effect on the social/legal spheres of its state relations and has Othered the largest ethnic/religious minorities, the Kurds and the Alevis.

Conflicts over the Mismanagement of Water: A Refutation of Conventional Wisdom

Victor Fradet • Nov 3 2018 • Essays

The real issue around water basin is not the scarcity of water per se, but the fact that institutions are unable to commit to a fair distribution of this resource.

What Role did Christian Teachings Play in the American Civil Rights Movement?

Juleus Ghunta • Nov 1 2018 • Essays

‘Christian teachings’ does not denote a unitary worldview, therefore, the concept must be analysed within distinct socio–political, cultural and economic contexts.

Weaponized Artificial Intelligence & Stagnation in the CCW: A North-South Divide

Alena Zafonte • Nov 1 2018 • Essays

The stagnation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons stems from the discrepancy in technological development between the Global North and Global South.

Cycling into Norway – Borders as Creative, Contested Controversies

Fanny Falkenberg • Oct 18 2018 • Essays

Security studies should view borders as “contested moments” to better highlight the complexity of their securitization and the subjectivity of migrants.

Is Humanitarianism Merely a New Name for Old Forms of Violence and Domination?

Leonie Schaefer • Oct 13 2018 • Essays

While humanitarianism has been undermined by political and state interests, positive elements of the core idea still exist and should not be overlooked.

A Rules-Based System? Compliance and Obligation in International Law

Katherine Vorderbruggen • Oct 9 2018 • Essays

This student essay draws on constructivist epistemology to explore the conditions of state compliance in international law.

The Implicit Imperialism of Democratic Peace

Alexandros Zachariades • Oct 9 2018 • Essays

The idea that democratization is the path to peace rose with liberal victory after the Cold War, but this lacked major empirical backing or a tested peacebuilding model.

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