Category: Foreign Policy
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Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
The term ‘colonial genocide’ is a tautology and a modernist obfuscation: Genocide, in metropoles or in the periphery, is always informed by a colonial frame of knowledge.
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Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action
Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.
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Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA
Strategic institutional flexibility, elite agency, and sectoral alignment enabled convergence between chaebol-driven South Korea and Singapore’s state-led technocracy.
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Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.
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Hybrid Threats and the Evolution of Russian Sabotage
Present-day Russian sabotage mirrors Soviet-era doctrine of escalation and target selection but harnesses cyber-enabled technologies and emerging Western vulnerabilities.
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The Politics of Endurance: Sanctions Resilience in Cuba and Iran
Regimes in Cuba and Iran have sustained sanctions resilience through economic reforms, including neoliberal policies, and ideologically driven nationalist discourses of resistance.
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Australia’s Strategic Culture and Evolving Threats in the Indo-Pacific
Australia’s strategic culture is ill-suited for long-term national security due to overreliance on the US and lack of industrial capacity to support defence capabilities.