Archive for 2013

Challenges to the Rights of Malaysians of Indian Descent

Karmveer Singh • Feb 6 2013 • Articles

In multicultural Malaysia, the Malays are politically dominant, the Chinese have economic influence and the Indians have neither. The marginalisation of Indians in Malaysia extends to every aspect of daily life.

Review – Rethinking Peacebuilding

Christina Woolner • Feb 5 2013 • Features

This book takes up the challenge of reframing both peacebuilding theory and practice to better address questions related to the relationship between peace and justice in contemporary peacebuilding.

Jumping the Loaded Gun: How Promoting Democracy Fails to Achieve Peace

Patrick Pitts • Feb 5 2013 • Essays

The West’s democracy promotion has achieved an outcome antithetical to its purpose: an increase in the violence of and destabilization within low-income and conflict-affected states.

Hard and Soft, Finance and Marketing

Dylan Kissane • Feb 5 2013 • Articles

Teaching international power to business students is a reminder that not only are business and IR majors different, but that there are also differences amongst the business majors in the politics classroom.

The Inconsistency of the Flood Narrative in Nigeria

Olalekan Adekola • Feb 4 2013 • Articles

In 2012 Nigeria experienced some of the worst floods in living memory, yet efforts to address the problem have been limited by the dominance of a reactionary, rather than a proactive, narrative.

Political Islam: A Threat to the Political Stability of Current Regimes in the Middle East?

Laura Schmah • Feb 4 2013 • Essays

Political Islamism has become mainstreamed to such an extent that no regime in the region can avoid engaging with it.

What Will They Do Tomorrow? Post-apocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract

Claire Curtis • Feb 3 2013 • Articles

In creating states of nature, the postapocalyptic narrative acknowledges that we decide how to live together and the kinds of rules we might choose.

Chinese Naval Modernisation: A Change in National Security Strategy?

Bradley Willis • Feb 2 2013 • Essays

Evidence indicates a clear sign from China that currently it’s intentions are purely cooperative with no noticeable major change in national security strategy.

Academic Territory and the Limits of IR

Robert W. Murray • Feb 2 2013 • Articles

It is often said that IR has become a complex and diverse field of study. With this expansion has come unclear limits as to what does, or does not, fall within the parameters of the field.

Apocalyptic Imagination: Sekaikei Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Motoko Tanaka • Feb 1 2013 • Articles

The lack of communities in Japanese apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic genre fiction of the 2000s highlights the insecurities of male youth in contemporary Japanese society.

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