Everyday Insecurity in Gaza: Experiencing Blockade, Displacement and Panopticism
Violence in both war and colonialism occurs in everyday administration via persistent technologies and the slow violence of caloric, infrastructural, and spatial control.
Game Theory and Non-Alignment: India’s Position in the Russia-Ukraine War
For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.
Alien No More: The Promise of Popular Culture for the Study of Diplomacy
By injecting reflexivity into explorations of human interactions, popular culture as a site for diplomatic studies challenges the elitist thinking that IR grapples with.
The Battle of Austerlitz and the Utility of Game Theory for Operational Analysis
Game theory allows analysts to model even complex battlefield scenarios, enabling past and future military operations to be simulated and alternative courses of action compared.
Multiple Worlds of Trauma: Methodology, Eurocentrism, and the Colonial Traumatic
This essay discusses if and where it is possible to draw the defining line(s) of trauma amidst a diversity of perspectives without depoliticizing or/and colonizing it.
Are Non-democracies More Susceptible to Coups than Democracies in West Africa?
This essay identifies three broad reasons for coups in West Africa: ethnic fractionalization, lack of economic progress and military dominance over civilians.
The European Quality of Government Index: A Critical Analysis
The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such.
A New Era of UN Peacekeeping? The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Africa
The implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda via Security Council Resolution 1325 has the potential to advance gender in UN peacekeeping missions in Africa.
Beyond Methodological Eurocentrism? Knowledge Making and the Universality Problem
Revitalizing area studies provides a path away from methodological Eurocentrism, where Western social sciences generate theories purportedly applicable everywhere.
Emancipation and Epistemological Hierarchy: Why Research Methods Are Always Political
Research methods are always political from a feminist perspective as its methods challenge ontological foundations and connect to devalorized feminine characteristics.
