Regions

Arab LGBTQ Subjects: Trapped Between Universalism and Particularity?

Rebekka Muth • May 11 2019 • Essays

Human Rights Watch’s campaign ‘No Longer Alone’ demonstrates the inscription of Western universal concepts that are deployed and diffused in a homocolonialist manner.

International Political Economy and the 2003 Iraq War: A Keynesian Perspective

anon • May 5 2019 • Essays

Keynes’s emphasis on ideas and individuals is better-suited to explaining the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq than Marx’s focus on material structures.

The Bio/Necropolitics of State (In)action in EU Refugee Policy: Analyzing Calais

Eugenia Zena • May 4 2019 • Essays

Europe’s refugee policy creates a form of bio/necropolitics that regulates the life and death of refugees. One can see this policy in action in the “jungle” of Calais.

The Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Clash over Syria in Conservative Politics

Daniel Millar • Apr 22 2019 • Essays

The tension between Conservative politicians’ cosmopolitan and communitarian policy reflects a new stratum of division in British politics more broadly.

Soviet Legacies and the Consolidation of Economic Rentierism in Kazakhstan

Mira Sairanen • Apr 22 2019 • Essays

Soviet legacies helped shape Central Asia both economically and politically. In post-independence Kazakhstan, these legacies facilitated the rise of economic rentierism.

Egypt’s Security Paradox in Libya

Kay Westenberger • Apr 8 2019 • Essays

Direct security concerns have pushed Egypt into a security paradox regarding Libya. By supporting militias, Egypt is directly contradicting UN unity efforts.

Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis

Timothy Abington • Mar 27 2019 • Essays

The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.

Principles or Power: Mussolini’s Invasion of Ethiopia

Anthony Luongo • Mar 26 2019 • Essays

Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia and the failure of the League of Nations to prevent it is best explained through the liberal school of International Relations.

Crisis or Continuation? The Trump Administration and Liberal Internationalism

Andrew Dryhurst • Mar 20 2019 • Essays

The Trump presidency’s foreign policy can be understood in ‘Trumpian’ Neo-realist terms, which has potential ramifications for the Liberal Internationalist Order.

Building Boundaries: The Sources of Nagorno Karabakh’s De Facto Statehood

Larissa de Castro Nogueira • Mar 11 2019 • Essays

This essay explains the variety of forces that operate within Nagorno Karabakh’s enclave – especially the ones related to Nation-Building and State-Making processes.

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