International Theory

A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward

Hannah Lentschig • Mar 4 2024 • Essays

The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.

Queer Oppression in the Global South and the Structural Violence of Development

Jodie Bradshaw • Jan 4 2024 • Essays

Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.

Frantz Fanon and the Inefficacy of Anti-colonial Violence

Jodie Bradshaw • Feb 27 2023 • Essays

A more effective way of combatting colonial immanent violence is to dismantle the racialised and gendered discourses that make this violence possible.

An Ontological Review of Wendt’s ‘Anarchy Is What States Make of It’

Niels Schattevoet • Feb 8 2023 • Essays

Due to Wendt’s ontological-epistemological choices, he is unable to challenge neorealist assumptions about the nature of international relations.

International Relations Is Not Post Postcolonialism in the Twenty-First Century

Maya Dotson • Jan 31 2023 • Essays

The Rana Plaza collapse was an event that made Postcolonialism and World Systems Theory come into consideration.

Modernities for ‘Alternatives to Development’: Vietnamese Colonial Modernity

Cara Peters • Jan 5 2023 • Essays

Post-development should open space in a previously colonised field for alternative ontologies on the nature of being and concepts of a good society.

How Do Travel Vlogs Contribute to GDP’s Dominance in World Politics?

Talisha Schilder • Nov 25 2022 • Essays

Through their introduction, plot and characters, Western travel narratives in YouTube vlogs exoticize Gross National Happiness and normalise the GDP development paradigm.

Multiple Worlds of Trauma: Methodology, Eurocentrism, and the Colonial Traumatic

Mateus S. Borges • Nov 2 2022 • Essays

This essay discusses if and where it is possible to draw the defining line(s) of trauma amidst a diversity of perspectives without depoliticizing or/and colonizing it.

South Korea Is Not In Democratic Backslide (Yet)

Lauren Doeff • Jul 5 2022 • Essays

Democratic backslide involves both the degradation of social development and democratic institutions. South Korea is experiencing the former, but not the latter.

The Metaphysical “On War”: Is Clausewitz Still Relevant in the 21st Century?

Stefan Noël Hageman • Jul 5 2022 • Essays

When analysing ‘On War’ today, it is important to make distinctions between Clausewitz the philosopher and Clausewitz the military strategist.

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