Pluralist Diplomatic Relations: COVID-19 & the English School’s International Society
The COVID-19 pandemic has subjected solidarist order to pluralist transformation by stripping international summits of their performative role in diplomacy.
Climate Security in the United States and Australia: A Human Security Critique
Climate change should be explicitly recognised by states as an existential threat to human security and related measures should immediately be implemented.
Agonizing Assemblages: The Slow Violence of Garbage in the Yemeni Civil War
The war in Yemen has created a garbage collection crisis which is enacting a slow violence against Yemenites who suffer negative health and environmental effects.
Global Covid-19 Responses Through a Critical Security Studies Perspective
The current COVID-19 response is dominated by traditional security notions of state-centrality which fail to understand the broad implications of the pandemic.
Are We at War? The Politics of Securitizing the Coronavirus
Amidst calls for solidarity, referring to COVID-19 as a war decreases the potential for a coordinated global effort in responding to the challenges the pandemic poses.
Greening the Seas: The Role of Business Conflict in Tightening the IMO Sulphur Cap
The ability of the International Maritime Organisation to regulate shipping must be evaluated in the context of each specific issue area, and the interests that prevail here.
Cosmological Politics: Towards a Planetary Balance of Power for the Anthropocene
Classic balance of power theory can be adapted to include concepts of cosmological significance and complicate the divide between nature and culture.
China’s Instrument or Europe’s Influence? Safeguard Policies in the AIIB
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has implemented safeguard policies that rival those of the World Bank Group. How can existing IR theory explain this?
Neocolonialism in J.A. Bayona’s ‘The Impossible’
The popular ‘rose tinted’ depiction of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami justifies the Global North’s neocolonial foreign aid strategies.
Protecting the Defenders: Exploring the Role of Global Corporations and Treaties
Influenced by corporations, human rights abuses against Latin American environmental defenders are some of the worst in the world. International law offers a solution.
