Student Features

Student Feature – Spotlight on Kosovo’s “Special Court”

Aidan Hehir • Aug 10 2019 • Student Features

Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) is a new ‘hybrid’ court, but concerns over witnesses, security, and legitimacy persist.

Student Feature – Theory in Action: ‘Isms’ Are Evil. All Hail the ‘Isms’!

Alex Prichard • Aug 8 2019 • Student Features

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

Felix Rösch and Richard Ned Lebow • Aug 5 2019 • Student Features

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

Riccardo Pelizzo • Jul 28 2019 • Student Features

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

Robert Yates • Jul 27 2019 • Student Features

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’

Pichamon Yeophantong • Jul 27 2019 • Student Features

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

Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon and Archie W. Simpson • Jul 22 2019 • Student Features

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

Clara Eroukhmanoff • Jul 16 2019 • Student Features

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

Markus Thiel • Jul 13 2019 • Student Features

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

Jeffrey W. Meiser • Jul 10 2019 • Student Features

US relations with Mexico in the 1910s show how institutional and normative domestic structures restrained the use of violent power.

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