The Sudanese Civil War shows that mechanisms by which coups come to resemble ‘peace-inducing shocks’ are easily interrupted by ‘spoilers’ who oppose the terms of peace.
Russian narratives on Syria to justify military intervention are anti-Western, and comprise claims to legitimate counterterrorism and adherence to international law.
Game theory allows analysts to model even complex battlefield scenarios, enabling past and future military operations to be simulated and alternative courses of action compared.
Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.
The oceans do not pose nearly as large of an obstacle to a regional hegemon attempting to venture further outwards as they have in the past.
Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.
Human rights discourse is premised upon the deleterious assumption that humans are separate from and supreme to nature.
By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.
A change in power image resulting from militarisation would restrain Europe’s normative impulses and introduce greater cognitive flexibility to policymaking.
Whose security the C-17 promoted or endangered varied, depending on U.S. political objectives and other components of the war’s security assemblage.
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