International Security

False Victimisation Narratives: Female Suicide Bombers of the Developing World

Rachel Hao • Sep 13 2016 • Essays

The dominant discourse surrounding female suicide bombers is discursive and reductive. It silences the diversity of motivations associated with female participation.

A Theoretical Analysis of Russian Foreign Policy: Changes Under Vladimir Putin

Giovanni Baldoni • Sep 10 2016 • Essays

Russian foreign policy is largely influenced by Putin’s desire to remain in power and the need to contain domestic restructurings through securing domestic support.

Preemptive Self-Defense, Customary International Law, and the Congolese Wars

Patrick Kelly • Sep 3 2016 • Essays

Preemptive self-defence was cited by Rwanda and Uganda during the two Congolese Wars, presenting some significant questions for international law.

Are Arab Nationalism and Islamism Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Nathanael Chouraqui • Sep 2 2016 • Essays

Arab nationalism & Islamism, intertwined from birth, grew out of a shared anti-Western identity but the contents & meanings of this rejection are fundamentally different.

Applying Jus Ad Bellum in Cyberspace

Sophie Barnett • Sep 1 2016 • Essays

Existing law governing jus ad bellum does not satisfactorily address the unique characteristics of cyber attacks.

Critical Terrorism Studies – A Case of Overemphasising the Discursive?

Niklas Sense • Sep 1 2016 • Essays

Evaluations of the two commitments of Critical Terrorism Studies – acting as a normative tool on one hand and an analytical tool on the other – has to be done separately.

Truth Commissions and the Mental Health of Victims

Jorge Gutierrez Lucena • Aug 28 2016 • Essays

Testifying before truth-telling mechanisms, such as truth commissions and gacaca, can cause psychological harm to the participants.

US-China Relations in Cyberspace: The Benefits and Limits of a Realist Analysis

Elizabeth Thomas • Aug 28 2016 • Essays

Offensive realism provides a useful framework for considering the national security rivalry in cyberspace and illuminates the current security competition.

Japan: The ‘Normal’ Pacifist

Tom Barber • Aug 21 2016 • Essays

Tokyo’s pacifism is best understood not as a capitulating monolithic anomaly, but as one enduring component of a multifaceted and eclectic strategic calculus.

What Moral Justifications Can There Be For Ever Allowing Killing In Wartime?

Michael Burtt • Aug 20 2016 • Essays

The principle of self-defence that can allow for just killing does not hold in the context of war, based on the notion that we should assume that all combatants are just.

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