Articles

The Chimera of Freedom of Religion in Australia: Reactions to the Ruddock Review

Michael Quinlan • Jan 21 2019 • Articles

The latest inquiry into religious freedom in Australia, namely the Ruddock Review, concludes that change in this area is likely to remain a chimera for some time to come.

Hacking Westphalia: ICT Infrastructures, Fake News and Global Politics

Andrea Pavón-Guinea • Jan 21 2019 • Articles

Digital platforms have opened the way for people to connect, debate and gather information; yet they have also increased the spread of fake news.

Technology and Tyranny

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel • Jan 21 2019 • Articles

The concern with modern technology is that it has the capability of imposing a value system and influencing populations, thus creating an authoritarian environment.

International Relations and the Human: A Commentary

The International itself came about as an outcome of encounter, a world coming together through relations between the West and the rest of the world.

Decolonizing Borders

Liam Midzain-Gobin • Jan 12 2019 • Articles

Borders are effective at constructing an ‘us’ on the inside, which is bound together through a collective narrative to the exclusion of ‘them’ outside.

Aquaman: a New Year Parable In Race and Ethnicity

Patricia Sohn • Jan 12 2019 • Articles

The recent Hollywood adaptation of Aquaman provides an important metaphor for racial conflict, and a timely talking point in modern society.

Unpaid Work and the Governance of GDP Measurement

Daniel DeRock • Jan 11 2019 • Articles

While the international statistical system is a rather non-politicized field, the issue of unpaid labor is a rare example of statistics entering public debate.

Recrafting International Relations through Relationality

International Relations must be reconceptualised to prioritize the relations that constitute units rather than to proceed from the assumption that units are self-evident.

Contesting Impunity in Colombia

Laura Betancur-Restrepo and Maj Grasten • Jan 1 2019 • Articles

Impunity has been key to determining the Colombian peace process. The question remains whose perception of impunity in the context of negotiated peace will prevail?

The ‘China Factor’ in India’s Maritime Engagement with Southeast Asia

Chietigj Bajpaee • Jan 1 2019 • Articles

China and India’s rise as major naval powers does not preclude the possibility of both developing a more cooperative dynamic in protecting the maritime ‘global commons’.

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