Identity Politics

“The Women in White” – Protesting for a Peaceful Political Emancipation in Belarus

Thomas Riedlsperger • Apr 30 2021 • Essays

Newly emergent political norms and identities played a key role in shaping the Belarusian protest movements that surrounded the country’s 2020 presidential election.

The Influence of Islam on Pakistani Nationalism Towards Kashmir

Sidra Yousaf • Apr 28 2021 • Essays

Pakistan bases its irredentist claim toward Kashmir on a instrumentalisation of Islam and the primordial view that a common Muslim identity should lead to unification.

The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: Protection For Whom?

Alexandra Pinto Damas • Apr 12 2021 • Essays

The Refugee Deal translates through a Western-dominate racialized and gendered logic of protection that does not effectively protect the refugees it targets and impacts.

‘Keeping it Real’ or Keeping it Realist? Hip Hop in International Relations

Solomon Pace-McCarrick • Apr 11 2021 • Essays

Hip Hop and the role of music emerge as a source of innovation and individual meaning-making in the face of dominant global power relations.

Do Colonialism and Slavery Belong to the Past? The Racial Politics of COVID-19

Erica Smith • Mar 30 2021 • Essays

The context of the COVID-19 pandemic and conceptualizations of post-positivist theory clearly show that colonial logic is still endemic in the 2020s.

A Review of Critical Race Theory’s Critiques of Mainstream IR

Julia Carreiro Rolim • Mar 20 2021 • Essays

The racist history of anarchy and sovereignty are obscured due to the high levels of abstraction and the value-neutrality embedded in mainstream theories.

Female Genital Cutting in Africa: The West and the Politics of ‘Empowerment’

Amy Knox • Mar 19 2021 • Essays

Western models of empowerment bring only one dimension of gendered power and agency that are unlikely to have the same purchase in the Female Genital Cutting context.

The Middle East: An Orientalist Creation

Arwa Syed • Feb 25 2021 • Essays

The Middle East can be understood as an imperial invention–created by European colonial powers–by exploring historic and contemporary orientalist policies in the region.

Impact of Regime Policies on the Rise of Sectarian Violence: Case of Syria

Ondrej Palicka • Feb 21 2021 • Essays

Neopatrimonialism is the root cause of sectarian division that allows the reproduction of sectarian identity.

The Resilience of Baloch Insurgencies: Understanding the Fifth Period

Yogesh Gattani • Feb 2 2021 • Essays

The Baloch peoples’ insurgency has proved their resilience and ability to generate momentum for a cause that is unlikely to subside to Pakistani state repression.

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