While international organisations can become autonomous sites of authority, they are never fully independent actors.
Critiquing the Hobbesian state of nature through the postcolonial lens highlights Western ontological assumptions of sovereignty in International Relations.
Historical institutionalist concepts explain the European Union’s recent increase in defence spending through an analysis of past events and critical junctures.
Analysis focusing mainly on security, power and wealth in the case of the South China Sea would be fatal, as this approach would lead straight into Thucydides’ Trap.
To confront new slavery, we need to realise the paradoxes in the West and start questioning basic ideas including sovereignty, freedom and realism as an ideology.
Kenneth Waltz’s incompatible use of a positivist approach has become a major shortcoming of his Theory of International Politics.
Constructivism elucidates how populist parties use identity construction and interest creation to portray their policies as necessary protections of national identity.
Risk theory’s analysis of global surveillance networks provides a superior alternative to securitisation theory, but it continues to remain underdeveloped.
The expert report in the trial of Sami Osmakac is critically flawed and ultimately unfit to serve as testament to the defendant’s status as a “homegrown” terrorist.
Classical realism’s understanding of human nature renders an imperfect depiction of reality that fails to incorporate progress or metaphysical development.
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