Non-State Actors / IGOs

Transforming Global Food Systems: Centering Indigenous Land Returns

Fian Sullivan Sweeney • Apr 15 2022 • Essays

Greater land returns to Indigenous people and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty can address the worsening global food insecurity crises.

Piracy in the Southern Gulf of Mexico: Upcoming Piracy Cluster or Outlier?

Anja Stelzer • Feb 27 2022 • Essays

The evolving situation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico raises the question if the area has potential to become a piracy hotspot to the likes of the Gulf of Aden or Gulf of Guinea.

Gramscian Notions: Helpful for Research into Digital and Tech Corporations?

Giuliano Catalano • Feb 26 2022 • Essays

Analysing Big Tech as a transnational capitalist class, Gramscian thought provides an outlook on possible avenues of governance of the digital sphere.

Why Does Big Tech Stay Headquartered In The US?

Yeo Qin-Liang • Feb 22 2022 • Essays

Big Tech centres its corporate power in the US to influence the American government into advancing its interests domestically and internationally.

What Does Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s Death Mean for the Future of ISIS?

Sybren Enserink • Feb 18 2022 • Essays

The death of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was an important symbolic loss, but will not determine the future and power of the group.

How Effective is Terrorism in Exerting Political Influence: The Case of Hamas?

Aidan Lecky • Jan 16 2022 • Essays

Terrorism as a tool to achieve political influence can be effective in short-term, but ineffective for long-term goals.

Police Brutality Against Voters? The 2017 Catalan Independence Referendum

Marlena Mazura • Jan 12 2022 • Essays

The essay examines alleged policy brutality accusations during the Catalan independence referendum in 2017.

The European Quality of Government Index: A Critical Analysis

Luc Aboubadra • Jan 10 2022 • Essays

The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such.

From Environmental Scarcity to ‘Rage of the Rich’ – Causes of Conflict in Mali

Sarah M. El-Abd • Dec 21 2021 • Essays

Through a focus on historical and contemporary causes of conflict in Mali since the 1960s, it is better understood how it came about and what is keeping it alive today.

How Far Does Anime Challenge Joseph Nye’s ‘Soft Power’ and Its Approach to Culture?

Solomon Pace-McCarrick • Dec 11 2021 • Essays

Anime provides a lens through which we can rethink Joseph Nye’s state-centered theory of soft power and its cultural assumptions.

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