International Theory

The Field of Security Studies: In Rude Health or a Chronic State of Disrepair?

Carl Bjork • Mar 18 2015 • Essays

Security Studies is in rude health, and will remain so amidst ever-changing global threats so long as scholars continue to engage with security theories critically.

Does Neoclassical Realism Provide a Compelling Approach to Military Change?

Riccardo Tomada • Mar 17 2015 • Essays

Accommodating other theories, Neoclassical Realism can explain military change through the internal characteristics and grand strategies of states.

Peru and Chile’s Ocean View Resolved Dispute

Duilia Mora Turner • Mar 17 2015 • Essays

Peru v. Chile exemplifies that legalistic intervention is a peaceful and adequate method for defining borders in modern times.

Do Revolutions Lead to Greater Security or Insecurity?

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard • Mar 12 2015 • Essays

Whether revolutions result in greater security or insecurity is entirely dependent on whose security is being discussed.

The European Security Strategy: Changing the Global Security Environment?

Liam Fitzgerald • Mar 11 2015 • Essays

The CFSP’s complicated nature is the dominant problem the EU faces in its attempt to create a stronger European voice and a system of global security governance.

One War, Many Reasons: The US Invasion of Iraq

Markus Nikolas Heinrich • Mar 9 2015 • Essays

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the culmination of a long series of events and the product of many complex, different, and yet interrelated factors.

Rhetoric of Responsibility: R2P’s Harmful Application in Humanitarian Practice

Rachel Hao • Feb 15 2015 • Essays

From a well-meaning attempt at humanitarian action following the crises of the 1990s, the Responsibility to Protect has nevertheless become a vehicle for self-interest.

The Main Factors Limiting the Ability of the U.S. to Control World Politics

Haoyu Zhai • Feb 12 2015 • Essays

Increasing economic interdependence between states and the emerging multipolar world order limit the United States in world politics.

Dominant Gender Discourses and the Framing of Female Rebels in Syria

Stina Wassén • Feb 8 2015 • Essays

The gendered framing of female Syrian rebels, prevalent in media sources, de-legitimises the political reasoning behind their individual decisions to be involved.

Simone De Beauvoir’s Feminist Ideals Regarding Prostitution

Elizabeth Feeney • Feb 6 2015 • Essays

De Beauvoir’s feminist approach to prostitution reveals prostitution is ethically acceptable if those involved are willingly and have the same rights as other workers.

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