Category: Global Ethics
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Political Research Is Always Ethically and Politically Suspect
Recognising that political science will always be suspect does not invalidate the field; it transforms it, allowing researchers to produce more trustworthy work.
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Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
The term ‘colonial genocide’ is a tautology and a modernist obfuscation: Genocide, in metropoles or in the periphery, is always informed by a colonial frame of knowledge.
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Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism
Medical humanitarianism presents itself as neutral by framing suffering as universal and solvable through technical medical intervention, separate from politics.
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Land, Climate, and Conflict: Unravelling the Nexus in Sudan, Syria, and Morocco
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, contributing to conflict only where weak land tenure governance amplifies drought-induced social and political stresses.
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Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC
Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.
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The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis
Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.
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Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.
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Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.
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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.
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Feminist Approaches to International Relations: ‘Good Girls’ Only?
Feminist approaches in IR reveal a division between positivist ‘good girl’ theories and post-positivist ‘bad girl’ theories, with the former dominating global IR.