Gender and Security: Redefining the ‘State’ and a ‘Threat’
Using a gender perspective, the dominant definitions of the ‘state’ and a ‘threat’ are re-defined to better understand security today.
Terrorism as Controversy: The Shifting Definition of Terrorism in State Politics
Political motives inform many definitions of terrorism, which are often irregularly applied, harming counter-terrorist initiatives.
Drones, Aid and Education: The Three Ways to Counter Terrorism
Drones, aid and education can effectively combat terrorism, but only if they are deployed together and with the proper restrictions and considerations.
Compassionate Warfare, a Hard Promise to Keep: COIN in Iraq and Afghanistan
Despite the emphasis on winning “hearts and minds,” Counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have not achieved their objectives.
Obama and ‘Learning’ in Foreign Policy: Military Intervention in Libya and Syria
‘Learning’ as an analytical framework shows how Obama’s decision-making towards the Gaddafi and Assad regimes was informed by past US interventions.
Resisting Necropolitics: Reconceptualizing Agency in Mbembé and Agamben
Mbembé’s “living dead” and Agamben’s “bare life” should be reconceptualized as performative acts in line with Butler’s theory, allowing for agency and acts of resistance.
Policy Failure and Unipolarity on the Eve of Operation Desert Storm
The unprecedented support for Operation Desert Storm was facilitated by a combination of primary and secondary factors.
A Biopolitical and Necropolitical Analysis of Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
The logic of the non-proliferation regime and the choice to proliferate can be explained by the theoretical fusion of biopolitics and necropolitics.
Examining and Critiquing the Security–Development Nexus
The idea of a security-development nexus, that a country’s well-being depends on its level of development, is too simplistic to explain the dynamics of conflict.
The Limitations and Capabilities of the United Nations in Modern Conflict
The ongoing Syrian Civil War exemplifies the need to reform the United Nations Security Council in order to better address elements of modern conflict.
