Socio-economic Impacts and Counter-cyclical Policies to Face Coronavirus in Brazil
Measures to deal with COVID-19 on the Brazilian economy must consider the asymmetric impacts of this unprecedented humanitarian crisis on society, as well as environmental and climate aspects.
Opinion – Realism and the Coronavirus Crisis
While it cannot help to solve the problem, IR theory can aid our understanding of how states behave amidst the global Covid-19 crisis.
Tears and Laughter: Affective Failure and Mis/recognition in Feminist IR Research
No one knows how or to what extent affect and failure will enter your research. So it may be reassuring to know that affect failure is not a failure of research practice.
Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations
As Postcolonial Theory becomes accepted in the mainstream, how do we control the means through which academia aims to re-invent its as only seemingly more benign?
Community-Based Natural Resource Management and Global Climate Change in Namibia
It is important to adequately unpack community-based natural resource management as a form of resource governance and to analyze the politics that are involved in it.
Opinion – Iran’s End Game Beyond Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inherent dictatorial nature of the Islamic Republic, and may prove a final countdown towards its end.
State of Exception? When Theory Meets Its Walls: A Rejoinder
It seems exaggerated, if not theoretically blind, to claim that emergency measures adopted in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak are ‘irrational and entirely unfounded’.
The Medieval Foundations of the Theory of Sovereignty
The differences between the late medieval ideal of sovereignty and its early modern counterpart amounted to more of a variation on a theme than a difference in kind.
The Afghan Peace Agreement and Its Problems
With a weak government in Kabul and with the United States removing its troops some fear the Taliban will wait until the US troops leave and then overrun Kabul.
Opinion – Coronavirus and the Need for Global Governance
Dealing effectively with global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis requires global political institutions, and the moment is now.
