Decolonisation and Violence: What It Takes to Decolonise IR
This essay seeks to understand what is envisioned for decolonizing IR. What does it take to realise this vision? Is it necessarily violent?
To Reform the World or to Close the System? International Law and World-making
A comparative investigation of two scholarly works on the development of international law in its context of the international system.
No Peace Without Justice: The Denial of Transitional Justice in Post-2001 Afghanistan
The denial of transitional justice in post-9/11 Afghanistan ignored Afghan demands for meaningful truth, justice and reconciliation.
NATO and Russia: A Defensive Expansion?
An exclusive NATO expansion created lopsided gains, violating the strategic balance between Russia and the West.
Bananas and Oranges of Christmas Past: Subject Formation under (Post)Socialism
How may fruit consumption practices relate to ‘Romanian’ (post)socialist subject formation? Maria examines such facets of European consumer culture to elucidate power/resistance in the everyday.
Socialism in India: Conflicting International Outlooks?
Socialist ideology has developed and gained pertinence in Indian political thought: Two major diverging schools with differentiated international outlook exist.
Confronting Great Powers: New Zealand’s Nuclear Stance During the Cold War
Constructivism best reveals how France’s bombing of a Greenpeace protest vessel in 1982 emboldened and solidified New Zealand to pass the Nuclear Free New Zealand Act.
Protests as a Vehicle for Political Change
In Ethiopia, protests have been a useful tool to unite various groups into an organized collective with the goal of ‘breaking open’ the existing political system.
The Objectives of War: Glory and Justice, Advantage or Annihilation?
While the modes and actors of war have evolved in a post-Cold War world, the critical military objectives of war Hans Speier first identified have remained the same.
The Bush Administration’s Invasion of Iraq: A Case of Ontological Insecurity?
By creating new threats to generate both international and domestic purpose, ontological insecurity was integral to the US decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
