Initially reluctant to securitise relations with Russia, Norway has perceived events in Ukraine as destabilising and modified its Russia policy accordingly.
Contrasting ‘ontological performativity’ and ‘hauntological performativity’, this essay understands sovereignty as an entity that is neither absent nor present.
A constructivist lens on economic nationalism goes beyond traditional realism and illustrates that collective identities play a role in economic policy/behaviour.
Taiwan’s democratic consolidation has fundamentally altered cross-strait politics and has reshaped the debate along the lines of national identity.
This student essay aims to illustrate how hegemonic masculinity is constructed, maintained and legitimated through the practice of sexual violence.
Marxism has inspired more second-image economic analysis of the international system, this has been useful in criticizing instrumental defenses of state supremacy.
A focus on scientific ontological debates and an ambiguous theoretical conceptualisation of security prohibits the development of a consistent methodology in securitisation theory.
By occupying perpetual states of contestation, the gender codes of femininity and masculinity have always been changing in relation to war.
The end of the Cold War has justified an overhaul in the traditional ontological and epistemological foundations of security studies.
International Political Economy’s normative discussion on the state’s role in the economy can be traced back to Confucianist and Legalist debates in Ancient China.
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