International Theory

Beyond the Race-neutrality of Prevent: White Britain and the Racialised Threat

Emily Collins • Sep 20 2021 • Essays

Resisting exclusionary practices of the UK’s counter-terror strategy, Prevent, is key to destabilising its white supremacist state power and racist logics.

Breaking and Entering: Subverting Sovereignty Despite the International System

Harsha Daswani • Sep 8 2021 • Essays

Intervention and sovereignty are both important and contradictory components of the international system. Yet despite principles of state sovereignty, international state interventions remain prevalent.

Shifting Hegemony: China’s Challenge to U.S. Hegemony During COVID-19

Lior Hamovitz • Sep 7 2021 • Essays

COVID-19 has shed a light on China’s leadership and governance model as a tool to undermine the American position within the international system.

Offensive Realism and the Rise of China: A Useful Framework for Analysis?

Frank Kuhn • Jul 9 2021 • Essays

While offensive realism emphasizes China’s rise, it provides a limited–if not dangerous–analytical perspective on the issue.

Fragmentation, Back Channels, and Hurting Stalemates in the Oslo Accords

Maria Ravazoula • Jul 6 2021 • Essays

Fragmentation during the Intifada demonstrates that while fragmentation is not inherently a positive attribute in civil war, it can be applied in future conflicts.

State Failure or State Formation? Neopatrimonialism and Its Limitations in Africa

Gizem Yurtseven • Jun 29 2021 • Essays

Value-laden concepts like Neo-Patrimonialism and State Failure used to describe African States should be replaced with a framework that emphasizes state formation.

Is the Nature of War Changing? Time to Avoid a Supposedly Unavoidable Question

Lotta Rahlf • Jun 11 2021 • Essays

Contemporary thinking on war relies on Westphalian-Clausewitzian ideas. A re-conceptualization is needed to abandon this frame and its interventionist polices.

IR Theory and The Ontological Depth of the Material-Ideational Debate

Alfredo Castro Moreira • May 31 2021 • Essays

Ideational factors are fundamental in most explanations of international politics, with both rationalists and constructivists referring to them frequently.

Fighting over War: Change and Continuity in the Nature and Character of War

Frederik Munch Wrist • May 15 2021 • Essays

With the recent incorporation of different forms of political contestation into the definition of war, the division between war and peace is essentially dissolved.

Pluralist Diplomatic Relations: COVID-19 & the English School’s International Society

Charles Baister • May 5 2021 • Essays

The COVID-19 pandemic has subjected solidarist order to pluralist transformation by stripping international summits of their performative role in diplomacy.

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