Interview – Amrita Narlikar
Amrita Narlikar discusses lessons from the Mahabharat, as applied to contemporary India’s negotiation strategies and global approaches to foreign policy.
Interview – Rita Floyd
Rita Floyd talks about just securitization theory, whether Covid-19 has been morally securitised, and the ‘loosening of security.’
Interview – Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about cosmopolitanism, identity, moral progress, Afrocentrism, what Black History Month means to him and gives some advice for young scholars.
Interview – Emmanuel R. Goffi
Emmaneul Goffi discusses the impact drones are having on modern warfare, the centrality of a constructivist perspective to his work, and the myth of ‘supreme sacrifice’.
Review – NGDOs and the Poverty Reduction Agenda
Makuwira brings new ideas to the discussion of the role of NGOs in development, allowing for a more critical analysis of the relationships between global and local NGOs.
The Fallacy of the Realist-Constructivist Dichotomy: A Rejoinder to Robert Murray
Realism is not dead, but it is as problematic to treat the theory as IR’s “core set of ideas” as it is a fallacy to treat constructivism as a recognizable, distinct, and competing theory.
Review – Ontological Security in International Relations
Steele’s well-researched book convincingly appends the field’s more materialist notions of security, but the merits lie as much with its novel conclusions as they do with the ideas it inspires.
Jus En Bello Isn’t Enough: Human Terrain, COIN and a Reasonable Chance for Success
With words like ‘morality’ and ‘warfare’ peppering the Human Terrain debate, it is surprising that the program hasn’t been widely discussed with reference to the Just War tradition.
Morality and Pragmatism in the Obama Doctrine
Speculation remains as to what sort of foreign policy captain President Obama is and whether the president has articulated foreign policy doctrine specific to his administration.
Climate Change, Environmental Security Studies and the Morality of Climate Security
In popular and political debate climate change is increasingly referred to as a security issue. But thus far climate change does not constitute an objective existential threat, and as such, a securitization of climate change – at least here in the West – is morally unjustifiable.
