Non-State Actors / IGOs

How Helpful is ‘Effective Altruism’ as an Approach to Increasing Global Justice?

Ailie Ross-Oliver • Apr 5 2021 • Essays

Effective altruism fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of injustice and encourages the use of financial-based solutions, undermining efforts to tackle injustice.

Three Lessons for the Intra-Afghan Talks, Courtesy of Iraqi Power-Sharing

Colm Trant • Mar 20 2021 • Essays

Three interrelated components of power-sharing in Afghanistan must be addressed to avoid an unstable experience: accommodation, comprehensiveness, and commitment.

Understanding Power in Counterinsurgency: A Case Study of the Soviet-Afghanistan War

Marnix Middelburg • Feb 25 2021 • Essays

To be successful, counterinsurgency operations must expand beyond a solely militaristic conception of power to include soft power and popular support.

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.

Agonizing Assemblages: The Slow Violence of Garbage in the Yemeni Civil War

Maxwell Fenton • Feb 14 2021 • Essays

The war in Yemen has created a garbage collection crisis which is enacting a slow violence against Yemenites who suffer negative health and environmental effects.

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.

Global Covid-19 Responses Through a Critical Security Studies Perspective

Lachlan Abbott • Jan 20 2021 • Essays

The current COVID-19 response is dominated by traditional security notions of state-centrality which fail to understand the broad implications of the pandemic.

Ripening Conflict in Civil Society Backchannels: The Malian Peace Process (1990–1997)

Nicolas Verbeek • Jan 15 2021 • Essays

The successful resolution of ethnic conflict in Mali illustrates the role that civil society can play in creating mutually beneficial negotiations between armed groups.

Women, Peace and… Continued Militarism? Revisiting UNSCR 1325 and Its African Roots

Nico Edwards • Jan 12 2021 • Essays

Women play a valuable role in peacekeeping in African contexts. However, their participation in stereotypically gendered peace processes and structures is not enough.

Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding as a Threat to EU Normative Power

Dalya Soffer • Jan 12 2021 • Essays

There is a significant mismatch between Hungary’s government and the core democratic values of the EU, which poses a considerable threat to the EU’s normative power.

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