Norms, Norm Violations, and IR Theory
With the shift from a unipolar world to a multipolar one, understanding the interactions between strong powers and norms, norm violations, and norm shifts is important.
Interview – Daniel Moore
Daniel Moore talks about his PhD research on military offensive network operations, the increased weaponization of cyber capabilities and private intelligence companies.
Review – Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers?
The authors tackle the ethical issues surrounding humanitarian intervention and the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention – from two competing standpoints.
Notes from Airstrip One
Acknowledgment of three options for Britain may appear victorious for remainers but having a “Remain” option is destined to fail everyone – except the far right.
Recent Posts
1.5 to Stay Alive: The Influence of AOSIS in International Climate Negotiations
AOSIS nations could provide leadership and strategy to other actors that are also threatened and have little influence in climate change negotiations.
Composing Compositeness: Examining EU Defining Actor Aspect in Russia Relations
The ‘Christmas Tree’ metaphor best describes the EU’s Russia policy, as certain mechanisms to manage external affairs represent obstacles to a unitary strategy.
What Is Nationalism? A Nation? A Nationalist?
In principle, the nation-state is an institutional means precisely to democratize the international system.
Climate Change and Mental Health: An Unlikely Duo
Mental illness should be included as a critical issue in discussions of human security and global climate change.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Church Crisis
In the Orthodox ecclesiastical world, the issue of an Ukrainian autocephalous church has emerged. Now, the question is how this crisis is going to escalate.
The Challenges to Middle Eastern International Society: A Study in Disorder
The Middle East is in a state of flux in which power politics and threats narrow states’ security interests to within their borders, which hampers the effective functioning of a regional society.
Incubators of Terror: Anatomising the Determinants of Domestic Terrorism
The presence of domestic terrorism in a state is linked to government strength and the territorial control of the terrorist organizations themselves.
Call for Papers – Conceptualising Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future
E-IR welcomes proposals for a workshop and an edited collection on the theme of remote warfare – including its historical roots and future trends.
Conflicts and Crisis in the Cameroon Anglophone Region
In view of the flaws of the decolonization of Cameroon, will Western powers continue to turn a blind eye on the fratricidal war in the Cameroon Anglophone region?
Brexit and the 2019 European Elections
2019 European elections may finally get to see the polarised debate between pro-European & Eurosceptic politicians, mostly only framed as such in mediated public debate.
Van Beersum Affair: The Right to Participate in the Parliament of the Streets
Because of the principle of territorial sovereignty, every sovereign state possesses the power to exclude non-citizens from participating in political affairs.
