Swati Parashar discusses decolonising academia, intersectionality in IR, developments in feminist research and hopes for the future of postcolonial and feminist IR.
Reva Dhingra discusses potential changes to international aid systems, and compares different international approaches to refugee crises.
In India, textbooks create a postcolonial citizen with limited control over their own history and the Hindu narrative is deemed acceptable, with alternatives being ‘othered’.
Emanuel Adler provides a comprehensive account of the development of the world social order, but questions arise regarding the value of globalisation in this process.
Taking civilizational diversity seriously requires recognition that the global does not exist except as a constant interaction between various local communities.
Sufi theory and practice throughout history, and across Islamic lands, proves that minimizing its impact to simple negatives and positives would be an oversimplification.
The domestic political apparatus of Pakistan is not robust enough to deal with the myriad of current crises and the international patronage model was never sustainable.
Only by addressing the patriarchal norms and social constructions of masculinity and femininity in a given conflict context can we hope to achieve gender equality and build sustainable peace.
The propagation of neo-colonial Oriental epistemes detracts from ‘mainstream’ feminism aims by generating a cultural divide between East and West.
Hicham Alaoui discusses recent events in Tunisia and outlines the concept of pacted democratisation and how it applies to political transitions in the MENA region.
