Global Ethics

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.

The Securitization of Christianity under Xi Jinping

Zeger Franciscus Glas • Mar 11 2021 • Essays

Through a securitization framework, it is argued Xi’s administration is attempting to present Christianity as an existential threat to national unity and social order.

The Changing Face of Military Assistance and Techniques of Informal Penetration

Sidney P. Williams • Mar 8 2021 • Essays

Case evidence from Colombia and Somalia shows how American military aid has negatively effected both conflict termination and de-escalatory objectives.

Remembering February 19, 1942: Japanese Americans and World War II

Jessica Mukai • Feb 18 2021 • Essays

It is crucial to remember the painful experience of Japanese-American internment and incarceration during World War II to prevent future atrocities from occurring.

Global Covid-19 Responses Through a Critical Security Studies Perspective

Lachlan Abbott • Jan 20 2021 • Essays

The current COVID-19 response is dominated by traditional security notions of state-centrality which fail to understand the broad implications of the pandemic.

Jus Commercium Armis: Amidst the Abyss of Arms

Deepanshu Singal • Jan 19 2021 • Essays

The ethics of the arms trade can be looked from contrasting political, economic, legal and theoretical viewpoints.

How Has the Evolution of Production Chains Affected Women and Children?

Tania González Veiga • Jan 14 2021 • Essays

Global and local production chains increase levels of precarity and informality of labour, with little legal and social protection, especially for women and children.

The Meaning of US Drone Warfare in the War on Terror

Nico Edwards • Nov 28 2020 • Essays

Disposability can be understood as structures that manage life and the distribution of death in the interests of actors in global economic and political networks.

Emancipation and Epistemological Hierarchy: Why Research Methods Are Always Political

Iona Young • Nov 22 2020 • Essays

Research methods are always political from a feminist perspective as its methods challenge ontological foundations and connect to devalorized feminine characteristics.

‘Drone Vision’: Precision Ethics Theory and the Royal Air Force’s use of Drones

James Greenhalgh • Nov 9 2020 • Essays

‘Drone vision’ leads us to ask if drone pilots can make correct and accurate decisions in order to prevent the deaths of non-combatants.

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