Violence

Gendered Memory and Mass Violence: Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Holocaust

Anneliese Schenk-Day • May 28 2024 • Articles

A more nuanced discussion of women’s experiences during mass violence from all angles and perspectives, victim, perpetrator, rescuer, and combatants is vital to understanding mass violence.

Thinking Global Podcast – George Lawson (Part Two)

E-International Relations • Feb 12 2024 • Features

George Lawson speaks on the international dimension of revolutions, ‘unruly politics’, ‘negotiated revolutions’ and more, in the second episode of two-parts on revolution.

Thinking Global Podcast – Natasha Saunders

E-International Relations • Nov 6 2023 • Features

Natasha Saunders speaks about distinguishing refugee status and asylum, the slow violence of asylum, digital border technologies, UK asylum policy, and refugee resistance.

India’s Taste for Violence: Globalisation Beyond Commercialisation

Deep K. Datta-Ray • Aug 17 2023 • Articles

Gandhi takes globalisation from the Mahabharata and crafts an entirely new politics, satyagraha, based on ‘disinterested love’, not ‘interested contract’.

Violence in the West African Sahel is not about Terrorism

Ian Edgerly • Mar 29 2023 • Articles

There is a crisis in the Sahel, but one that is not readily apparent when viewed through the traditional lenses of international relations and geopolitics.

Interview – Laura Sjoberg

E-International Relations • Jan 15 2023 • Features

Laura Sjoberg discusses the ways gender hierarchies and queer theory can help us understand international security and IR more broadly.

Review – War, Survival Units, and Citizenship

Siniša Malešević • Nov 4 2022 • Features

Kaspersen’s book demonstrates the need for a wider debate on state formation and warfare, moving beyond neo-bellicist theories, but the proposed framework proves less convincing.

Review – Conflict of Interest

Jemima Ackah-Arthur • Aug 4 2022 • Features

This podcast provides useful analyses of past and ongoing conflicts but could focus more on non-Islamic societies and non-traditional security issues.

Interview – Eda Gunaydin

E-International Relations • Oct 27 2021 • Features

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.

Review – Warlord Survival: The Delusion of Statebuilding in Afghanistan

Florian P. Kühn • Jul 9 2021 • Features

Malejacq’s book presents a lively and detailed narrative of four significant ‘warlords’ and how they demonstrate the failings of external statebuilding in Afghanistan.

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