Global Ethics

A Framework Convention on Global Health: A Step to Better Health for All

Sacha Blumen • Jun 29 2016 • Essays

There should be an effective global right to health and it would be worthwhile for states to negotiate and ratify a Framework Convention on Global Health.

Have Western Powers Lost the Art of Strategy?

Tris Puri • Jun 9 2016 • Essays

‘Strategy’ is a concept Western powers have struggled to define throughout history, and never truly owned. The 2003 Iraq War was a clear embodiment of this struggle.

Australia’s Refugee Challenge

Nidha Khan • May 19 2016 • Essays

As Australia is obligated to create a peaceful culture by creating policies which include asylum seekers and refugees, its human rights violations cannot continue.

Assessing the Relationship between Power and Morality in Nonviolent Action

Sarah Wallace • May 3 2016 • Essays

Nonviolent action can simultaneously be pragmatic in its power to achieve the desired goal and principled by being rooted initially in morality.

Can Offers Ever Restrict Freedom?

Pouya Jafari • Apr 21 2016 • Essays

When distinguishing between threats, offers and how a proposal restricts freedom, a successful account must involve both perlocutionary and illocutionary assessments.

The Shadows of Tiananmen: Chinese Foreign Policy and Human Rights

Jessica Kirk • Apr 15 2016 • Essays

Since Tiananmen Square 1989, China’s understanding of the significant yet contingent power of human rights discourse has guided much of its foreign policy on the subject.

Responsibility to Protect and its Neo-Imperialist Implications

Sasha Bhatnagar • Apr 14 2016 • Essays

Any form of humanitarian intervention will seek to impose a one-sided narrative of stability and security, which are, by default, culturally and regionally not uniform.

To What Extent Does International Law Reflect the Sovereign Will of States?

Sneha Dawda • Apr 1 2016 • Essays

Although international law reflects the sovereign will of Western states to a large extent, it significantly fails to reflect the will of post-colonial nations.

Is Human Security Part of the International Security Agenda?

Katy Edwards • Mar 25 2016 • Essays

Human security is falling short of the developmental, humanitarian impact that it had intended, despite being entrenched on the international security agenda.

Can Non-Violent Resistance Be an Effective Strategy for Challenging State Power?

Madeleine Nyst • Mar 25 2016 • Essays

Examining the Arab Uprisings in 2011, the effectiveness of non-violent resistance movements for challenging state power is evinced.

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