The Right to Be Here: A Case for the Inclusion of Women in Peace Negotiations
The feminist case for female participation in peace negotiations should be made on grounds that may appear to be deceptively simple.
Understanding Refugees Through ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire
Home forces us to contend with a larger problem – exclusion from the circle of grief based on the lack of shared norms of humanity.
Commemorating Srebrenica: The “Inadequate” Truth of the Female Victim Experience
A meaningful reconciliation for Bosnian Muslim victims is largely contingent on the construction of a “collective memory” of Srebrenica, built on the female narrative.
Critical Theory Meets Arms Control
Applied to questions of arms control, critical approaches to International Relations provide the field with a necessary theoretical reevaluation.
The (Un)intended Effects of the United Nations on the Libyan Civil War Oil Economy
The United Nations crude oil commodity sanctions on all non-governmental actors had manifold consequences on the Libyan civil war oil economy.
The Construction and Implementation of Migration Practices in Europe and America
Securitisation theory offers a way to analyse how migrants are framed as security threats in America and Europe through rhetoric and practice.
The Responsibility to Protect: A Disputed Matter
Interpreting sovereignty as a responsibility toward a state’s own citizens, not a tool for limitless power, mends R2P’s tension between sovereignty and human rights.
Liberal Democracies and Their Faulty Response to Terrorism
Both the American and French governments have responded to terrorist attacks in ways that threaten liberal democratic society.
Constructing a Narrative: Ontological Security in the Scottish Nation (State)
This autoethnographic essay explores how myth-making in the Scottish education curriculum contributes to a rise in Scottish identity of young people.
Racism and the Politics of Fear at the US-Mexico Border
Security discourse that constructs migrants as existential threats to the American national identity reinforces racism, abuse of power, and the politics of fear.
