Were ‘Ancient Hatreds’ the Primary Cause of the Yugoslavian Civil War ?
Rather than ‘ancient hatreds,’ the primary causes of the Yugoslav Wars were competing groups’ need for societal security and the elite exploitation of structural anarchy.
Sketchy Depictions – Gendering of Female Politicians in Editorial Cartoons
As shown by an analysis of editorial cartoons, depictions of female political leaders are gendered based off their political credibility at the time.
Arab LGBTQ Subjects: Trapped Between Universalism and Particularity?
Human Rights Watch’s campaign ‘No Longer Alone’ demonstrates the inscription of Western universal concepts that are deployed and diffused in a homocolonialist manner.
Fighting Patriarchy like it’s 1938: Virginia Woolf, Trailblazer of Feminist IR
Virginia Woolf’s work “Three Guineas” should be read as a transgressive, iconoclastic, and avant-gardist classic of critical feminist and gendered IR theory.
Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis
The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.
Building Boundaries: The Sources of Nagorno Karabakh’s De Facto Statehood
This essay explains the variety of forces that operate within Nagorno Karabakh’s enclave – especially the ones related to Nation-Building and State-Making processes.
Queer Asylum Seekers as a Threat to the State: An Analysis of UK Border Controls
UN refugee laws and the UK asylum process perpetuate unrealistic expectations of queer identity for asylum seekers.
National Identity and the Construction of Enemies: Constructivism and Populism
Constructivism elucidates how populist parties use identity construction and interest creation to portray their policies as necessary protections of national identity.
Perpetual Conflict of ‘Turkishness’: The Turkish State and its Minority Groups.
Turkishness identity has an effect on the social/legal spheres of its state relations and has Othered the largest ethnic/religious minorities, the Kurds and the Alevis.
What Role did Christian Teachings Play in the American Civil Rights Movement?
‘Christian teachings’ does not denote a unitary worldview, therefore, the concept must be analysed within distinct socio–political, cultural and economic contexts.
