International Theory

How Fear Shapes World Politics

Natalie Alfred • May 6 2019 • Essays

Fear not only plays an assumptive role in the international system, but is a central notion and emotion in IR that can arise in any context to shape states’ behaviour.

The Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Clash over Syria in Conservative Politics

Daniel Millar • Apr 22 2019 • Essays

The tension between Conservative politicians’ cosmopolitan and communitarian policy reflects a new stratum of division in British politics more broadly.

Fighting Patriarchy like it’s 1938: Virginia Woolf, Trailblazer of Feminist IR

Constantin Gouvy • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

Virginia Woolf’s work “Three Guineas” should be read as a transgressive, iconoclastic, and avant-gardist classic of critical feminist and gendered IR theory.

Are We Living in a Post-Panoptic Society?

Tobias Champion • Apr 16 2019 • Essays

When Foucault’s theory is analysed in the context of contemporary surveillance, it suggests that we are living in a post-panoptic society.

Crisis or Continuation? The Trump Administration and Liberal Internationalism

Andrew Dryhurst • Mar 20 2019 • Essays

The Trump presidency’s foreign policy can be understood in ‘Trumpian’ Neo-realist terms, which has potential ramifications for the Liberal Internationalist Order.

Assessing the Claim That the Development of International Theory Is Over

Muznah Siddiqui • Mar 15 2019 • Essays

The absence of an independent ontological foundation has rendered the progression and development of future International Relations theory stagnant.

‘Almost Perfect’: The Bureaucratic Politics Model and U.S. Foreign Policy

Luke Norcross • Mar 13 2019 • Essays

The Bureaucratic Politics Model provides an ‘almost perfect’ guide to U.S. foreign policymaking, as the presence of the President creates exceptions in this analysis.

Violence and Political Order: Galtung, Arendt and Anderson on the Nation-State

Jessica Schwarz • Mar 7 2019 • Essays

The nation-state’s monopoly of violence means that the two are inextricably linked, with nationalism being the basis of political order.

Were Fukuyama, Mearsheimer or Huntington Right about the Post-Cold War Era?

Benjamin Smith • Feb 25 2019 • Essays

The prospective claims made by Fukuyama, Mearsheimer and Huntington are insufficient to adequately describe post-Cold War international relations.

Can China Continue to Rise Peacefully?

Sam Welsh • Feb 21 2019 • Essays

China’s economic and political rise is unlikely to be peaceful in the medium to long-term scope of US-China relations due to its pursuit of an aggressive foreign policy.

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