A Critique of the Canberra Guiding Principles on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
With the current banphobia in Geneva, it is important note that those who seek a regulation, maintenance of human control over LAWS or a ban seek the same thing.
Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Technology offers military decision-makers an alluring appeal to technological fixes to ethico-political dilemmas of killing in war.
Soft Power: Can Less be More?
Trump and his administration are probably a disaster for American soft power and undermine the country’s standing in the world – but is that necessarily bad?
Politics of Banking in Europe: Global Banks and Domestic Institutional Legacies
International Political Economy and Comparative Political Economy should not be rival, but complementary approaches to understand a complicatedly governed world.
I Don’t Know What to Do with Myself: ‘I’ as a Tool, a Voice, and an Object in Writing
In presenting a story of my own negotiation, I call for careful consideration of ‘I’ as an object, voice, and tool – and how it might entwine with hierarchies.
The Valorisation of Intimacy: How to Make Sense of Disdain, Distance and ‘Data’
A practical and collective reflexivity is indispensable to the type of embedded, ethnographic fieldwork so many of us are now undertaking in the field of IR.
Oil Power Politics amidst a Global Pandemic
Despite recent developments, the US has been unable to broker a longer term end to the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia as the motives of the three states vary.
Non-Western International Relations Theorisation: Reflexive Stocktaking
Despite the currents of debate over “broadening” the theoretical horizons of IR beyond the West, several critical questions and issues still remain unclear or unexplored.
Italy as the Kremlin’s ‘Trojan Horse’ in Europe: Some Overlooked Factors
As Russian influence in Italy grows, Putin’s ‘Trojan horse’ in the EU reflects several societal trends, molding perceptions of a foreign policy appropriate for Italy.
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.
