Asia/Pacific

Norm-taker or Norm-shaper: Is China Socialising into Norms of Intervention?

Elizabeth McGowan • Sep 11 2023 • Essays

Language has been expanded to give China greater flexibility in discourse about intervention showing that it has become a tactical tool rather than a deeply held value.

Russia and the “Near Abroad”: (Re)producing Identities through Foreign Policy

Mak Kasapovic • Aug 28 2023 • Essays

The practices of Russian foreign policy serve to call into being a “near abroad” with a certain identity and instantiate a particular construction of Russian identity itself.

Beyond the Narrative of China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy

Alain Tao • Aug 2 2023 • Essays

Looking beyond the popular narrative of Chinese debt-trap diplomacy, it becomes clear that it does not hold up to scrutiny.

The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation

Priavi Joshi • Jul 31 2023 • Essays

Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.

Poliheuristic Analysis: 2008 Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement

Samanvaya Saraswat • Jul 18 2023 • Essays

Poliheuristic Choice Theory allows to incorporate domestic matters into the analysis of the India’s strategy in Indo-US civilian nuclear deal negotiations.

Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention

Amadeus Marzai • Jul 7 2023 • Essays

Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.

Horizontal Partnership for Gender-responsive Localisation of Humanitarian Aid

Shrinwanti Mistri • Jul 6 2023 • Essays

The key to efficient localisation is addressing the intra-local horizontal power hierarchies capable of simultaneously fostering gender-responsive localisation.

From Deployment to Withdrawal: The C-17 Transport Plane in the Afghanistan War

Aineias Engstrom • Jun 6 2023 • Essays

Whose security the C-17 promoted or endangered varied, depending on U.S. political objectives and other components of the war’s security assemblage.

Nirbhaya, #MeToo & Orientalism in Transnational Gender Politics

Poorvika Mehra • May 18 2023 • Essays

The propagation of neo-colonial Oriental epistemes detracts from ‘mainstream’ feminism aims by generating a cultural divide between East and West.

China’s Take on Changing Global Space Governance: A Moral Realist Argument

Lea Marlene Korb • Apr 23 2023 • Essays

China aims to reposition itself within and change the current system of global space governance by increasing its strategic credibility through moral conduct in space.

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