The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
The prescribed causal relationship between religion and violence is not only contestable but also alarmingly reductionist.
Al-Banna’s ideas of Islam’s superiority, of his conception of Islam to others, and the monopoly of the absolute truth are the first steps to judge Others as unbelievers.
A norms-based approach to achieving cyber security has its merits, but there are significant coordination hurdles to overcome in order to make developing norms lasting.
The emergence and socialisation of the norm of responding to health threats as security threats has reshaped and expanded the global security agenda.
In a constructed malestream military, women in combat arms are inherently irregular as they take on a twofold irregularity as female fighters and irregular combatants.
Sanctions per se are not irreconcilable with normative behaviour, as they may perform the function of conveying a normative argument rather than merely coerce the other.
Afghanistan has become a “snake country”: where loyalty can only be rented, solutions are always temporary, and the law of the stronger prevails.
The typology of Syrian rebel groups illuminates the obstacles to cooperative action, but also highlights the difficulties that might dominate the post-war Syrian state.
Examining the issue of Turkey’s accession to the EU, this essay examines how non-security issues can be securitized by various social and political actors.
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