International History

Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Janja Jankovic • Apr 20 2024 • Essays

Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina show fundamental issues in the international efforts of peace-building and transitional justice during the post-war reconstruction period.

From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability

Chenglong Yin • Mar 23 2024 • Essays

Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.

Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?

Yesun Kim • Mar 22 2024 • Essays

The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric.

The Stopping Power of Water: An Outdated Concept?

Pranav Kaginele • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

The oceans do not pose nearly as large of an obstacle to a regional hegemon attempting to venture further outwards as they have in the past.

Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture

Chenjun Wang • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea’s strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational’ security choices during the Cold War and now.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji

Sarah Furman • Feb 29 2024 • Essays

Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.

The Origins of Regionalism in the EU and ASEAN

Dominika Remžová • Feb 25 2024 • Essays

Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.

Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth

Evie Celeste Wayne • Dec 25 2023 • Essays

The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Imperialist Dynamics in International Law

Laura Andrés Serpi • Dec 15 2023 • Essays

By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.

Development and Authoritarianism: China’s Political Culture and Economic Reforms

Vivian Le • Nov 20 2023 • Essays

China’s economic reform avoided democratisation by balancing capitalism and socialism, highlighting industrial survival and nationalism, evading radical political change.

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