State Social Media and National Security Strategy: Israel’s Operation Protective Edge
The IDF’s imagery showcases the durable background symbols that make social media posts powerful, effective, and convincing.
Interview – Ava Patricia Avila
Ava Patricia Avila sets out the reasons for the steady military buildup by several Southeast Asian states, the impact on ASEAN, as well as the ways a gender perspective can enrich research on civil-military relations.
Interview – Carisa Nietsche
Carisa Nietsche considers Chinese and US foreign policy and their influence in Europe, as well as threats to democracy in the region.
Interview – Daria Nashat
Daria Nashat talks about the importance of International Women’s Day, women’s involvement in peace-building, and women in leadership.
Review – Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances
In her perceptive look at America’s alliance system since WWII, Rapp-Hooper argues that these defensive security guarantees were remarkably successful in deterring aggression.
Interview – Kei Koga
Kei Koga talks about ASEAN’s role in East Asian security, Japan’s foreign policy, Shinzo Abe’s legacy, plus the impact of Covid-19.
The Whispering Prussian: Clausewitz and Modern Wars
Clausewitz forged the most provocative framework of thinking about war as a human affair of passion, unpredictability and reason.
ASEAN ‘Cohesiveness and Responsiveness’ and Peace and Stability in Southeast Asia
In spite of the outcomes generated by the ‘ASEAN Way’, it impedes making swift decisions on critical regional issues or trans-boundary concerns.
Interview – Dean Cooper-Cunningham
Dean Cooper-Cunningham discusses the benefits of using visual methods in IR, responses to Russian political queerphobia and the visuality of resistance and (in)security.
Fieldwork, Feelings and Failure to Be a (Proper) Security Researcher
Fieldwork is, among many other things, messy, and deeply frustrating and failure is unavoidable. The feelings this produces are shared by many researchers.
