Articles

Hybridity and Humility: What of the Human in Posthuman Security?

Elke Schwarz • Dec 20 2015 • Articles

The speculative nature of posthumanism requires that we have some sense of imagination as to how our humanity might comprehensively be affected by technology.

Why The African Union Should Be Dismantled And Buried With Gaddafi

S.N. Sangmpam • Dec 20 2015 • Articles

Sub-Saharan Africa should be allowed to reconstitute itself into a self-sustaining, organically integrated Unifederation that can address its predicament.

Turnbull Meets Jokowi: A New Chapter in Australia-Indonesia Relations?

Howard Dick • Dec 20 2015 • Articles

Indonesia is keen to engage with Australia as part of a regional balance of power and it welcomes trade and investment opportunities. Yet difficulties remain between the neighbouring states.

Managing Expectations in NLD-led Myanmar

Matthew Mullen • Dec 18 2015 • Articles

Rooting out predatory power such as that firmly in place after decades of military rule in Myanmar requires public and international buy-in.

Neo-Orientalism: Indonesia’s Colonialism and Papua

Nathan Down • Dec 17 2015 • Articles

Lessons learnt from Dutch colonialism have resulted in Indonesia’s mimicking and replicating its own code of imperialism, resulting in Papua’s accession into Indonesia.

The Art of Living with Difference: Contemporary Troubles Fiction

Michaela Markova • Dec 16 2015 • Articles

The social benefits of the Troubles novels lie in their deeper understanding of the ethics of ‘the other’.

ISIS Threat Laps the Caribbean

Peter Clegg • Dec 15 2015 • Articles

With the region’s porous borders and often weak state capacity to deal with security threats, regional governments must gear up to the challenges that face them.

Global Christian Networks for Human Dignity

Allen D. Hertzke • Dec 14 2015 • Articles

Perhaps we stand at a hinge point of Christian history as the faith’s contribution to dignity and freedom becomes more fully manifest and global.

Sociotheology: The Significance of Religious Worldviews

Mona Kanwal Sheikh • Dec 14 2015 • Articles

Being empathetic is not the same as morally approving of violence but understanding that there can be a political and religious rationale behind ‘their’ violence.

The Impact of Industrial Revolutions: China’s Rise and the Decline of Japan

Strobe Driver • Dec 13 2015 • Articles

Japan stands at a crossroads. It will have to accept that unless it de-escalates tensions through critical dialogue it will be faced with a fractious China.

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