The Middle East: An Orientalist Creation
The Middle East can be understood as an imperial invention–created by European colonial powers–by exploring historic and contemporary orientalist policies in the region.
Impact of Regime Policies on the Rise of Sectarian Violence: Case of Syria
Neopatrimonialism is the root cause of sectarian division that allows the reproduction of sectarian identity.
The Resilience of Baloch Insurgencies: Understanding the Fifth Period
The Baloch peoples’ insurgency has proved their resilience and ability to generate momentum for a cause that is unlikely to subside to Pakistani state repression.
The Sound of the Egyptian Subaltern in 2011 Revolutionary Protest Songs
The analysis of music broadens the scope of Subaltern Studies within International Relations by revealing new voices and insights.
Challenging Historical and Contemporary Notions of Blackness in British Writing
The idea of Blackness has been constantly challenged and revised by Black authors through the presentation of their own life narratives.
Everyday (In)Security: An Autoethnography of Student Life in the UK
An undergraduate education has largely ceased to be one of ontological discovery and has instead become a process of enforcing neoliberal logic on students.
Virtual Invasion: ‘Just War’ and Orientalism in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
The latest game in the Call of Duty franchise is shown to rely on Orientalist caricatures, skewed perceptions of violence, and a narrative of ‘Western’ righteousness.
Racial Security: The Unobserved Threat in IR
The complexities of race have received little engagement in IR and continue to be sifted through white frameworks that create oversimplifications and generalizations.
Re-interpreting Political Spaces through Native American Spatialities
Conventional methods of cartography perpetuate colonial and neoliberal positions at the cost of a more inclusive mapping system that would adopt indigenous perspectives.
Double Agency? On the Role of LTTE and FARC Female Fighters in War and Peace
Despite the substantial agency women often hold in rebel militant groups, female combatants’ gendered realities rarely improve.
