Global Ethics

The Global Gag Rule, US Imperialism and the Governing of Women’s Bodies

Anja Stelzer • Aug 18 2021 • Essays

It is important to focus on how the GGR affects the everyday lived realities of women in the Global South, as the impact goes far beyond their reproductive health.

Beyond the Humanitarian Rhetoric of Migrant Information Campaigns

Juliette Howard • Jun 14 2021 • Essays

By framing migration negatively, migrant information campaigns aim to change migrants’ perceptions to deter them from leaving in the first place.

Filling the Gap: The Moral Purpose of the State and the Duty to Intervene

Joost Hendrik Pietschmann • Jun 6 2021 • Essays

A constructivist understanding of human rights explains sovereignty as a state’s responsibility to protect its citizens and leads to a duty to intervene internationally.

Human vs. Feminist Security Approaches to Human Trafficking in the Mediterranean

Erin Grace Hogan • May 5 2021 • Essays

While a human security approach to combat human trafficking has gained support, a feminist security approach is required to fully protect victims of human trafficking.

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.

On African Sources of Knowledge: Studies into the Instrumentality of Ubuntu for IR

Joffrey Doma • May 3 2021 • Essays

Integrating the theoretical framework of the philosophy of “Ubuntu,” originating from South Africa, has the potential to be an instrumental force in IR.

Serenity for Sinjar: Resiliency and Reconciliation

Ariel Harris • May 1 2021 • Essays

After the 2014 ISIS Sinjar massacre, there is an unlikely, but possible, strategy of reconciliation and reconstruction for the marginalized Yazidi people of Iraq.

The Implications of Stabilisation Logic in UN Peacekeeping: The Context of MINUSMA

Jemma Challenger • Apr 10 2021 • Essays

UN peacekeeping’s assimilation of counterterrorism rhetoric has incentivised self-interested European military contributions to the UN mission in Mali.

How Helpful is ‘Effective Altruism’ as an Approach to Increasing Global Justice?

Ailie Ross-Oliver • Apr 5 2021 • Essays

Effective altruism fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of injustice and encourages the use of financial-based solutions, undermining efforts to tackle injustice.

Female Genital Cutting in Africa: The West and the Politics of ‘Empowerment’

Amy Knox • Mar 19 2021 • Essays

Western models of empowerment bring only one dimension of gendered power and agency that are unlikely to have the same purchase in the Female Genital Cutting context.

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