Interview – Michael Butler
Michael Butler talks about humanitarian intervention, the challenges to R2P and its relevance today, the norm life-cycle model, and the ethics of protection.
Interview – Swati Srivastava
Swati Srivastava discusses the concept of hybrid sovereignty, the power of Big Tech, and the use and regulation of artificial intelligence by governing bodies.
Sexuality and Borders
The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.
The State and Globalisation
The process of globalisation has potentially altered how we should understand the role of the state within International Relations – both in theory and in practice.
Sovereignty and the Nation-State
When you look at a map of the world all the earth’s landmasses are divided by borders. Each of these are made (and remade) through historical events reflecting the key ordering principle of our global system.
Interview – Jan Lüdert
Jan Lüdert discusses normative practices of appropriateness, challenges to state sovereignty, decision-making in the United Nations, and pedagogies in international relations.
Interview – Eda Gunaydin
Eda Gunaydin talks about her research on the creation of post-state sovereignties by the Kurds of Rojava and the use of Western representations of women to justify interventions.
Prosecuting Heads of State: Sovereignty Immunity and the Anti-Impunity Norm
Black-boxing the internal structure of the norm pushes us to think about contestation surrounding particular behavioural prescriptions in overly dichotomous terms.
Interview – Vincenc Kopeček
Vincenc Kopeček explores the key issues at the core of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the role of civil society, as well as his work on de facto states.
Review – Singapore Is Not An Island
Veteran diplomat Bilahari Kausikan explores the foreign policy dynamics of the island city-state of Singapore, including how it creates and maintains relevance in the region and beyond.
