Are Migration Policies in Europe and America Creating More or Less Security?
The EU and the US are increasingly portraying immigrant populations as threats to a nation’s security both in physical and figurative senses.
Classical Realism and Human Nature: An Alternative Reading
A historically complete genealogy of human nature would help clarify the diversity behind the realist trivialization of differences between the various conceptions.
Shared Stewardship: A Solomonic Solution to the South China Sea Conflict
The Biblical story of King Solomon and the two mothers can serve as a metaphorical tool to conceive a possible way out of the South China Sea impasse.
International Society in Theory and Practice
The humanitarian intervention taking place in Iraq/Syria is demonstrative of a cosmopolitan understanding of human rights and norms within the international community.
A Public Reason Defence of Same-Sex Marriage
Accounts of gay marriage that appeal to nonpublic reasons (and therefore are of the perfectionist kind) should not be pursued.
Evaluation of Chabal and Daloz’s Africa Works, with Reference to Burkina Faso
Chabal and Daloz argue that neopatrimonialism is central to African politics, the political culture of Africa being inherently different to that of the Western states.
On the Possibility of Nuclear Disarmament
While nuclear disarmament is a technical possibility, the deterrence logic behind such weapons makes their relinquishment a near impossibility.
Friendship and International Relations
Although states can construct meaningful bonds between each other, these are better conceptualised as partnerships, not friendships. State relations are not friendships.
A Poststructuralist Perspective on R2P as a Response to Kofi Annan’s Question
Addressing Kofi Annan’s question in traditional Liberal terms is but one way, of many, to phrase the Responsibility to Protect debate.
Exploring International Criminal Justice in Film
There have been very few films on international criminal tribunals other than Nuremberg. Perhaps most international trials are still too recent to bring to cinema.
