The migrant crisis in Venezuela shows how large-scale population movements change destinations depending on global and societal contexts at a given time.
Damming is a controversial issue as it can lead to communities losing their land, and cause a series of environmental impacts that affect ecosystems.
Marxists argue that, contrary to the image of global capitalism as a free world, the dominance of the nation-state in the post-Cold War system has led to ordinary people around the globe becoming divided and alienated.
An extensive glossary of key terms central to IR and the study of global politics, taken from from the textbook ‘Understanding Global Politics’.
The gaps and divisions created by the Covid-19 pandemic have profoundly affected international relations because everything about the origins and spread of the novel coronavirus has been contentious.
The idea of global health connects an individual’s private concern over their own well-being to the shared necessity to secure the health of everyone, everywhere.
Terrorism and terrorists can be transnational in three ways: through their goals, their actions and their organisational form – each of which exposes the dark side of globalisation.
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 led to the United States starting its ‘War on Terror’, seeking to rid the world of terrorists and governments that supported or enabled them.
The presence of civil society organisations has become increasingly relevant within the global system, changing its nature due to their involvement and activism across a range of areas.
Levels of Analysis are the building blocks that are faced by all students and academics when they seek to build an analysis.
