Can Non-Violent Resistance Be an Effective Strategy for Challenging State Power?
Examining the Arab Uprisings in 2011, the effectiveness of non-violent resistance movements for challenging state power is evinced.
Are Military Interventions Inevitably Doomed to Backfire?
Military interventions are always liable to backfire and cause unintended harm to an intervening state on various grounds, such as ideological, political, and economic.
Cooperation or Competition? External Support and Interrebel Dynamics
Non-state armed groups who receive fungible resources, such as funding or weapons, are more likely to experience interrebel fighting and less likely to be in an alliance.
Does a ‘Global Jihad’ Phenomena Exist?
Perhaps there is a ‘Global Jihad’, but not in the perverted form hijacked by political Islam as a kind of collective aggression against the West.
Revisiting Turkey’s Protean Self vs. ‘Other’
‘Ontological insecurity’ provides a more accurate analysis of Turkey’s Europeanization project as an alternative theoretical perspective to realism and constructivism.
Freedom of Religion and Access Control in Israel
State religions should not be instrumentalised to exploit the freedom and rights of religious minorities masked by state rhetoric.
Forgetting Politics: The Impossibility of Humanitarian Intervention
‘Humanitarian military intervention’ is critiqued as a de-politicizing discourse, with four proposals for re-politicization suggested.
Explaining Russia’s Intervention in Syria in September 2015
Instead of giving an empirical account of the factors that led to Russia’s intervention, it’s important to explore the extent to which IR theory explains such a calculus.
‘Children of the Stones’: The Securitization of Palestinian Children by Israel
To understand the complex and highly subtle securitization of Palestinian children by the Israeli state requires going beyond the Copenhagen School’s analysis framework.
Challenges and Opportunities for Walzer’s “Jus ad Vim” for the 21st Century
“Jus ad vim” undoubtedly has a role in the ethical evaluation of military and government activities, especially in the realm of emerging technology such as drones.
