Bodies of Resistance: Visibilising Women’s Lives Under Romania’s Abortion Ban
Through memory work and visceral imagery, feminist accounts memorialize women as victims and dissidents, yet they invertedly recenter male voice and reinforce patriarchy.
EUCAP Nestor and EUFOR Chad/CAR: The EU’s Role as a Global Security Actor
From 2008 to 2014, EU security operations in Africa revealed a clash between human security principles and members’ national interests, undermining the EU’s global role.
Hybrid Threats and the Evolution of Russian Sabotage
Present-day Russian sabotage mirrors Soviet-era doctrine of escalation and target selection but harnesses cyber-enabled technologies and emerging Western vulnerabilities.
Sanction Putin: How Navalny’s Team Turns Corruption Exposés into Global Action
Leveraging local expertise, effective advocacy tactics and broad-based messages, Anti-Corruption Foundation continues to shape global sanctions against the Russian elite.
The Politics of Endurance: Sanctions Resilience in Cuba and Iran
Regimes in Cuba and Iran have sustained sanctions resilience through economic reforms, including neoliberal policies, and ideologically driven nationalist discourses of resistance.
Cash for Migration Control: The EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership
By externalizing migration control to a regime with documented human rights violations, the EU deliberately evades democratic oversight and international responsibility.
Australia’s Strategic Culture and Evolving Threats in the Indo-Pacific
Australia’s strategic culture is ill-suited for long-term national security due to overreliance on the US and lack of industrial capacity to support defence capabilities.
Beyond Apocalypse: Securitization and Exceptionalism in Environmental Politics
The securitization of environmental crises rarely results in extraordinary political measures due to the risks associated with mobilising such actions.
Mercenaries of Peace: The Role of Private Military Contractors in Conflict
PMCs’ profit motive makes them ineffectual for post-conflict recovery and calls for strict regulation of their presence—which again relies on the clientele of major PMCs.
Iceland and the Vatican City: Small State Agency in International Politics
Social structures do not always permit small states to exert agency, but they can do so at times by exercising compulsory, institutional, structural, or productive power.
