Student Feature – UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, an instrument of UNESCO, highlights the complexities and politics of cultural protections.
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 – Spotlight on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO represents a robust institution for collective defense, with missions expanding past Europe, although some argue it should re-focus on European operations.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Green Theory and Climate Change
Green theory allows a broader perspective on our common interests and emphasises choices made within the ecological boundaries of climate change, rather than the political boundaries of economic advantage.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Indigenous Perspectives and the Buffalo Treaty
Developments within IR highlight the struggle of Indigenous peoples to maintain their place-based existence so that their lands, cultures, communities and relationships will flourish for generations to come.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Global Justice and Climate Change
Debates about the climate responsibilities of non-state actors are important to IR theory, which has been traditionally concerned with how states relate to one another.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Global South Perspectives on Development
As new economic powers such as India, China, Brazil, Turkey as well as other rising economies emerge, IR will need to do more to pay attention to the perspectives of those in the Global South.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Postcolonialism and Women of Colour
Postcolonialism forces us to reckon with the everyday injustices and oppressions that can reveal themselves in the starkest terms through a particular moment of crisis.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Constructivism and Bhutan’s National Interests
Bhutan has developed a distinctive national identity that differentiates it from its neighbours, making it an interesting case to apply to constructivism.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Poststructuralism and Media Representations of Terrorists
The official discourse across an event, although powerful, never fully accounts for the reading of the entire situation.
Student Feature – Spotlight on the WTO and its Appellate Body Crisis
The WTO is known for its robust dispute settlement mechanism, but this procedure is threatened by the blocking of appointments to its appellate body.
Student Feature – Spotlight on Qualitative Methods in International Relations
Kevin Weng explains how qualitative research methods allow political scientists to develop complex arguments and explain outlier cases in international relations.
