Essays

European Strategic Autonomy: How Realism Best Explains Why It Remains a Failure

Simon Rio • Dec 3 2024 • Essays

European states only support aspects of ESA that serve their objective interests—such as economic and security concerns—which are not produced by any strategic culture.

Neoliberalism and the Sovereignty of the Global South

Jyotir Sondhi • Nov 30 2024 • Essays

The neoliberal project has used sovereignty as a mechanism for producing and protecting class relations that favour the global capitalist elite.

Sexual Assault Silences in War Memorialisation: The Lesson of Vivian Bullwinkel

Amy Capuano • Nov 27 2024 • Essays

The display of Bullwinkel’s dress is a symbol of the gap between wartime experiences and their commemorative representations.

Lone-Wolf Terrorism: A Threat to Public Safety or A Catalyst for Public Hysteria?

Katie Malkin • Nov 20 2024 • Essays

The momentary usefulness of lone-wolf terrorism concept is just the tip of the iceberg; its potential in contemporary responses to the threat in a modernised era is massive.

The F-16 Coalition for Ukraine: Small State Status-Seeking Through Donations

Jelle van den Wijngaard • Nov 19 2024 • Essays

Dutch F-16 donations to Ukraine were partly an international status-seeking act, a “good behavior” that gained the Netherlands prestige and saw Rutte become NATO Secretary General.

War and Crisis: The Impact of Narratives on the Militarisation of U.S. Police

Talia Marie Pettitt • Nov 3 2024 • Essays

Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.

Imperialism in Contemporary Russian Liberalism: Alexei Navalny’s Rhetoric

Gabriele Kaminskaite • Oct 25 2024 • Essays

Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government’s control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny’s rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.

Game Theory and Non-Alignment: India’s Position in the Russia-Ukraine War

Smriti Kolar • Oct 18 2024 • Essays

For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.

The Oslo Process: The Façade of Peace between Palestine and Israel

Maria Gilani • Oct 12 2024 • Essays

Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.

Analysing the Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights

Tala Sultan • Oct 6 2024 • Essays

Arguments against SERs’ justiciability—on grounds of their ‘costly’ nature, vagueness, intangibility, and the incapacity of courts—prove counterproductive and misguided.

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