Is Human Security Part of the International Security Agenda?
Human security is falling short of the developmental, humanitarian impact that it had intended, despite being entrenched on the international security agenda.
Can Non-Violent Resistance Be an Effective Strategy for Challenging State Power?
Examining the Arab Uprisings in 2011, the effectiveness of non-violent resistance movements for challenging state power is evinced.
Are Military Interventions Inevitably Doomed to Backfire?
Military interventions are always liable to backfire and cause unintended harm to an intervening state on various grounds, such as ideological, political, and economic.
Cooperation or Competition? External Support and Interrebel Dynamics
Non-state armed groups who receive fungible resources, such as funding or weapons, are more likely to experience interrebel fighting and less likely to be in an alliance.
Does a ‘Global Jihad’ Phenomena Exist?
Perhaps there is a ‘Global Jihad’, but not in the perverted form hijacked by political Islam as a kind of collective aggression against the West.
Revisiting Turkey’s Protean Self vs. ‘Other’
‘Ontological insecurity’ provides a more accurate analysis of Turkey’s Europeanization project as an alternative theoretical perspective to realism and constructivism.
Killing by Remote Control: Western Countries Relying on Technology in the Military
The growing reliance on drones highlights the Western requirement for precision, accountability, and a reduction in collateral damage
What is the Future of African Regionalism?
Regionalism is an oft-discussed theme in relations between African states, but ideological differences and an inability to find agreement remain challenges.
Forgetting Politics: The Impossibility of Humanitarian Intervention
‘Humanitarian military intervention’ is critiqued as a de-politicizing discourse, with four proposals for re-politicization suggested.
The Significance of the ‘Human Security’ Paradigm in International Politics
The topic of human security is multifaceted and demands caution when analysed in different contexts.
