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Student Essays
Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC
Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.
Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action
Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.
Interview – Raluca Csernatoni
Raluca Csernatoni calls for rethinking IR through a technopolitical lens, exhorting scholars to treat emerging tech as central to power, agency, and global order.
Interview – Bill Niven
Bill Niven explores how memory — national, transnational and contested — shapes identity, history, and politics in Germany and beyond.
Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA
Strategic institutional flexibility, elite agency, and sectoral alignment enabled convergence between chaebol-driven South Korea and Singapore’s state-led technocracy.
Interview – Sharon Bong
Sharon Bong explores faith, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia, and calls for context-rooted rights activism that bridges religion, resistance, and belonging.
The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis
Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.
Woman at War: Female Combatant Participation in the PYD and ISIS
Strategic and organizational considerations play a more decisive role in shaping women’s combat participation in violent political groups.
Interview – Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani urges IR scholars to decolonize thought, embrace multipolarity, and rethink Western dominance as Asia and the Global South reshape world order.
Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.
