The Kosovan and Crimean situations are superficially similar, but commentators are wrong to claim that a Kosovan precedent can be applied to Crimea.
Humanitarian intervention remains a troubled, yet necessary concept that is impeded by a continuing schism between its legal nature and real world application.
Historically grounded discourses continue to legitimise and naturalise racism and inequality in the international system.
UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security offered policy recommendations that failed to make significant changes to women and girls in areas of armed conflict.
Analysis focusing mainly on security, power and wealth in the case of the South China Sea would be fatal, as this approach would lead straight into Thucydides’ Trap.
Because the United Kingdom’s journalistic protections fall short of the European Convention on Human Rights, whistleblowers may be deterred from disclosing information.
Rape as a weapon of war is deeply constrained by mainstream IR analyses, so to re-conceptualize the concept feminist, post-colonial and decolonial theories are needed.
The UN’s attempts to maintain the peace process in eastern Congo proved mainly ineffective because it failed to identify and engage with key spoilers.
Because of the principle of territorial sovereignty, every sovereign state possesses the power to exclude non-citizens from participating in political affairs.
The stagnation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons stems from the discrepancy in technological development between the Global North and Global South.
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