International Theory

Globalisation, Agency, Theory: A Critical Analysis of Marxism in Light of Brexit

Johanna Siebert • Jan 5 2019 • Essays

Despite an increasing degree of economic integration, Marxist theory must consider geopolitical competition in the relationship between capitalism and the state system.

Game Theory and Disarmament: Thinking Beyond the Table

Max Willner-Giwerc • Dec 18 2018 • Essays

Disarmament can be facilitated through the creation of “disarmament bonds,” a strategy supported by the logic of game theory.

Critics of Liberal Peace: Are Hybridity & Local Turn Approaches More Effective?

Juleus Ghunta • Dec 13 2018 • Essays

Despite legitimate critiques of the liberal approach to peace, local and hybrid approaches have failed to present a compelling alternative to the present order.

Is “One Man’s Terrorist Another Man’s Freedom Fighter”?

Vilde Skorpen Wikan • Nov 29 2018 • Essays

Terrorists can, in certain theoretical cases, be considered freedom fighters through Just War Theory. However, it is doubtful this threshold is ever reached in practice.

Constraints On Rape As a Weapon of War: A Feminist and Post-Colonial Revision

Carina Minami Uchida • Nov 20 2018 • Essays

Rape as a weapon of war is deeply constrained by mainstream IR analyses, so to re-conceptualize the concept feminist, post-colonial and decolonial theories are needed.

Incubators of Terror: Anatomising the Determinants of Domestic Terrorism

Blair Welsh • Nov 11 2018 • Essays

The presence of domestic terrorism in a state is linked to government strength and the territorial control of the terrorist organizations themselves.

Van Beersum Affair: The Right to Participate in the Parliament of the Streets

Sass Rogando Sasot • Nov 7 2018 • Essays

Because of the principle of territorial sovereignty, every sovereign state possesses the power to exclude non-citizens from participating in political affairs.

A Rules-Based System? Compliance and Obligation in International Law

Katherine Vorderbruggen • Oct 9 2018 • Essays

This student essay draws on constructivist epistemology to explore the conditions of state compliance in international law.

The Implicit Imperialism of Democratic Peace

Alexandros Zachariades • Oct 9 2018 • Essays

The idea that democratization is the path to peace rose with liberal victory after the Cold War, but this lacked major empirical backing or a tested peacebuilding model.

Was There a Soviet-led Menace to Global Stability and Freedom in the Late 1940s?

Michal Šenk • Oct 7 2018 • Essays

It was the lack of soft power that demonstrated how unrealistic it truly was for the USSR to expand globally.

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