Student Features

Student Feature – Theory in Action: Green Theory and Climate Change

Hugh Dyer • Sep 29 2019 • Student Features

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

Jeff Corntassel and Marc Woons • Sep 22 2019 • Student Features

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

Alix Dietzel • Sep 17 2019 • Student Features

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

Lina Benabdallah, Carlos Murillo-Zamora and Victor Adetula • Sep 17 2019 • Student Features

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

Sheila Nair • Sep 9 2019 • Student Features

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

Sarina Theys • Sep 9 2019 • Student Features

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

Aishling Mc Morrow • Sep 9 2019 • Student Features

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

Bhumika Billa • Sep 7 2019 • Student Features

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 • Sep 4 2019 • Student Features

Kevin Weng explains how qualitative research methods allow political scientists to develop complex arguments and explain outlier cases in international relations.

Student Feature – Spotlight on The United Nations Security Council

Thomas Dörfler • Aug 21 2019 • Student Features

The Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations and charged with ensuring international peace and security.

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