War and Crisis: The Impact of Narratives on the Militarisation of U.S. Police
Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.
An Embodiment, a Bridge and a Tribute: Conceptualisations from Beyond the Border
Border art re-conceptualises the US-Mexico border by engendering an aesthetic experience fractured from the hierarchical and hegemonic ‘distribution of the sensible’.
Nuclear Brinkmanship in Russia Today: A Strategic Narrative Analysis
RT portrays the international system as a new Cold War system with a nuclear face-off between two superpowers and Russia as facing nuclear threats from Ukraine and NATO.
Predictability in an Unpredictable World: Ritual and the NATO Summit in Vilnius
Despite, but also due to, Europe’s unprecedented security landscape, the 2023 NATO Summit followed a familiar ritualized script that eclipsed any theatrical performances.
Cuban Intelligence after the Cold War: A Case Study in Adaptation and Influence
Cuban intelligence adeptly evolved post-Cold War by prioritizing information acquisition and alliances to safeguard its national interests.
The Anomaly of Democracy: Why Securitization Theory Fails to Explain January 6th
Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation
Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.
Trump‘24 or Before: Militias and the Marketplace of Masculinity
Masculinity as an antidote to insecurity may result in militia members taking rallying cries like “Trump ‘24 or Before” literally and further perpetrating violence.
A Lineage of White Insurgency: US Capitol Attack and the Lost Cause
The insurrection attempt cannot be understood without considering America’s history of White supremacy, particularly the Lost Cause of the Confederacy narrative.
From Deployment to Withdrawal: The C-17 Transport Plane in the Afghanistan War
Whose security the C-17 promoted or endangered varied, depending on U.S. political objectives and other components of the war’s security assemblage.
