Identity Politics

Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture

Chenjun Wang • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea’s strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational’ security choices during the Cold War and now.

Havoc to Hope: Electoral Violence in the Kenya 2022 General Election

Peter Rowan • Feb 24 2024 • Essays

The 2022 election was not marred by violence due to an interaction between elite incentives and opportunities for violence, institutional constraints, and civil society efforts.

Why Do Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Fail?

Cayla Bleoaja • Dec 19 2023 • Essays

Recent research points to the role of resource dependence and local knowledge in activists’ success, and their engagement in either persuasive or disruptive tactics.

Colombia and Chile: How Parties and Ideologies Affect LGBTQ+ Identities

James Manville • Dec 13 2023 • Essays

While Chile and Colombia have unique political landscapes, the recent emergence of leftist leaders indicates a shifting societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.

The Cambodian Genocide: Operationalizing Violence Through Ideology

Wei Azim Hung • Oct 16 2023 • Essays

The case of the Cambodian Genocide suggests that ideology does not only motivate but potentially supplements rational motives in operationalizing wide-scale violence.

Malaysian Language Policy: The Impact of Globalization and Ethnic Nationalism

Chisato Maezawa • Sep 22 2023 • Essays

In Malaysia, globalization has made English more important, yet without undermining the status of Malay. Ethnic nationalism also has little impact on its language policy.

Institutionalised and Ideological Racism in the French Labour Market

Jodie Bradshaw • Sep 18 2023 • Essays

Until a critical re-evaluation of the egalitarian approach of French Republicanism is undertaken, the racial hierarchies in labor market will persist.

Trump‘24 or Before: Militias and the Marketplace of Masculinity

Bailey Galicia • Sep 6 2023 • Essays

Masculinity as an antidote to insecurity may result in militia members taking rallying cries like “Trump ‘24 or Before” literally and further perpetrating violence.

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.

The Importance of Queer Theory: An Abridgement on Trans Healthcare in the UK

Elizabeth Shimwell • Aug 4 2023 • Essays

Reforms could be introduced to make such healthcare much more accessible, less oppressive and less violent even with the cuts and pressures affecting NHS care generally.

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