What’s Stopping Us? The Failures Behind Famine Prevention in the 21st Century
Famine classification should be based upon a combination of both quantitative and qualitative factors to improve international and local responses to the issue.
Visceralities of the Border: Contemporary Border Regimes in a Globalised World
Inverting the premise of the borderless capitalist landscape, it is argued that the border is constitutive of capitalism and at the heart of social life today.
Harnessing Alterity to Address the Obstacles of the Democratic Peace Theory
Democratic Peace Theory is challenged in this essay, specifically examining whether democracy is the only route to peace.
Misreading Clausewitz: The Enduring Relevance of On War
Criticism of Clausewitz is based on a fundamental misreading of Clausewitz’s theory of war and the philosophical framework in which it is set.
Is Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” a Self-fulfilled Prophecy?
Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations,” though fraught with polarizing opinions, still has relevance to contemporary policies and politics.
Reflexivity and Autobiography within International Relations Theory
Autobiographical IR transcends an ontologically fixed subject and object, opting instead to deconstruct their nature and complicate their interactions with reflexivity.
Buy Good, Do Good, Be Good? Ethical Consumption as Neoliberal Governmentality
Neoliberal capitalism is reproduced by discourse of ethical consumption as a global-corporate and individualised conflation of the economic and social spheres.
The False Dichotomy of the Material-Ideational Debate in IR Theory
Contrary to what most IR theory perspectives envision, material and ideational forces are mutually constitutive, not oppositional.
Res Publica Christiana Revisited: International Organization in the Middle Ages
A re-examination of Bull’s international society shows how the Middle Ages, while lacking modern states, maintained international organisation with the Catholic Church.
Terrorism and the End of Western Hegemony: A Gramscian Perspective
Terrorists’ organizations are counter-hegemonic strategy that pose a threat to US hegemony, and these non-state structures operate along the Gramscian model.
