Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb illustrates the power of absence in the discourse of nuclear deterrence.
Comparative analysis highlighted how the support of Great Powers with strong alliance-building capacities is a key element to exert statehood in the international arena.
Are drones instruments or drivers of neocolonialism? Maybe both. Drone warfare gives its wielders means to project “necropower”, but it also reshapes of norms on warfare.
Post-9/11 anxieties and post-invasion hubris among top US decision-makers led to a forceful yet open-ended mission with lofty and vague objectives.
Sanctions are unlikely to produce any policy concessions on the sanction state side, and may even produce unwanted developments, all the while aggravating suffering.
The Indonesian National Armed Forces has exploited the rise of Islamic extremism to intrude in civilian affairs and enhance its own material interests.
When analysing ‘On War’ today, it is important to make distinctions between Clausewitz the philosopher and Clausewitz the military strategist.
The social, political, and operational environment within which advances in synthetic biology exist are crucial in shaping its potential impact on warfare.
The essay establishes the causational relation, or the lack thereof, between failed states and narco-terrorism; re-framing narco-terrorism’s ontology, and epistemology.
Nuclear weapons and human rights coexist in the form of a double game. Commitments to both differ across states, but security is often given precedence over rights.
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