Student Feature – Spotlight on Kosovo’s “Special Court”
Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) is a new ‘hybrid’ court, but concerns over witnesses, security, and legitimacy persist.
Student Features
E-IR publishes regular feature pieces specifically for students, including reviews of the latest text books and articles on issues ranging from essay writing to choosing a Masters course.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: ‘Isms’ Are Evil. All Hail the ‘Isms’!
Students of politics can’t dismiss the isms before acquiring an understanding about what they are rejecting.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Classical Realism and Migration
Classical realism accommodates diverse human interests, and the resulting self-reflexivity helps to accept life trajectories influenced by cultural or historical factors.
Student Feature – Advice on Writing for a Think Tank
Think tanks often encourage students to share analyses on contemporary global issues. However, it is important to understand what a think-tank ought to do before deciding which one to publish with.
Student Feature – Spotlight on ASEAN
ASEAN is a prominent case of successful regionalism, yet debates persist over its ability to integrate members and improve relations between China and the United States.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Asian Perspectives on a ‘Chinese School’
The Chinese School’s concept of relationality provides more valuable insight into the conflict with the Philippines than could be expected from mainstream IR theory.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Critical Geography and Inuit Views
Sustaining a narrow focus on nation-state ideas about territory risks pushing out of view marginal but insightful approaches developed, for example, by the Inuit.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Securitisation Theory and ISIS
Through securitisation theory threat magnification that results in certain counterterrorism strategies, which often serve political ends, can be exposed.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Queer Theory and Sexual Equality
Queer Theory allows analysis not just of Gender categories, but also how these function within the politico-economic context.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Liberalism and American Imperialism
US relations with Mexico in the 1910s show how institutional and normative domestic structures restrained the use of violent power.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Critical Theory and Migration
From a critical perspective, there is only a true solution to this ‘crisis’ when political actors embrace cosmopolitan criteria that balance the interests and rights of everyone involved.
