Linking the Diffusion of Military Ideas to Human Rights Violations at EU Borders
The EU border agency Frontex shows how the diffusion of military technology and ideas can potentially lead to human rights violations.
Silent Birangonas: Sexual Violence, Women’s Voices and Male Conflict Narratives
The experience of Bangladesh’s Birangona women show the influence of gendered narratives of war, culture and nationalism in conflict.
Determining a Successful Humanitarian Intervention
While national interest is not necessarily a requisite feature of a successful intervention, it is clear that when national interests are at stake, success is likely to occur.
Compliance with UN Watercourses Convention: Half Full or Half Empty?
How can the UN Watercourses Convention minimise the risks of inter-state conflict over water resources?
Human Rights and Democracy: An Incompatible or Complementary Relationship?
This essay traverses tensions between human rights and democracy stemming from their incompatible basic values, modes of application and types of politics they foster.
War’s Silent Victim: The Environment
Modern conflicts have a high human cost but the environment is often the forgotten victim. Is international law equipped to protect the environment from war?
Bringing Power to Justice: Rawls Contra Marx and Foucault
Power is brought to justice without violating Rawls’s assumptions, specifically Marxian and Foucauldian power, through Lukes’ three-dimensional framework.
An Analysis of the Indian Further Education System Regarding Gender Inequality
Gender inequality in India’s further education system is investigated through the variables of transition rates, subjects chosen, literacy rates and early marriage.
From Mythification to Eurocentrism: The Academic Colour Line
Due to its inherent eurocentrism IR reproduces a limited Western perception of the world unfit to explain non-Western realities.
When to Hire a Hitman: A Theoretical Framework for Just Assassination
With the exponential rise of civilian casualties in modern warfare, political assassination could serve as an effective, more ‘humane’ means of humanitarian intervention.
