Articles

Why Did Protests in Iran Fail to Develop into an Uprising?

Luke Abbs • Jan 24 2018 • Articles

The disorganized nature meant that the recent protests emerged quickly, but had no clear common goals or leadership, which made continued action unsustainable.

Indigenous Perspectives on International Relations Theory

Jeff Corntassel and Marc Woons • Jan 23 2018 • Articles

Indigenous efforts challenge state-centric views to include different ways of understanding relations between peoples, the natural world and the planet.

Asian Perspectives on International Relations Theory

Pichamon Yeophantong • Jan 23 2018 • Articles

Asian perspectives highlight a need for IR to become a global discipline that appreciates political and cultural difference but also reflects a shared history and humanity.

Critical Geography: An Introduction

By drawing attention to alternative ways that space can be imagined, critical geographers have sought to transform international politics and the global space.

Realism: Tragedy, Power and the Refugee Crisis

Felix Rösch and Richard Ned Lebow • Jan 18 2018 • Articles

Realism does not provide a one-stop solution to the refugee crisis, but it acts as a critical corrective to political discourses that securitise refugees.

Trump’s Dark Geographical Imagination

Robert A. Saunders • Jan 18 2018 • Articles

Trump’s recent comments on Africa reflect the ‘white identity crisis’ that fuelled his campaign, it also exposes problematic western geopolitical imaginaries of Africa.

Realism, Post-Realism and ISIS

Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman • Jan 17 2018 • Articles

ISIS has revealed that a productive stability probably needs more than the brokering of existing national interests by outside powers and local elites.

Trump’s Jerusalem Decision: A US Policy Perspective

Jonathan Sciarcon • Jan 15 2018 • Articles

Trump’s move will certainly not help solve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. More notably, it perhaps only signals a further American retreat from multilateral engagement.

The Past, Present and Future of Realism

Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou • Jan 15 2018 • Articles

The inability of structural realist theories to shed light on international relations will continue as long as unipolarity ensues. Thus, new theories need to be developed.

Securitisation Theory: An Introduction

Clara Eroukhmanoff • Jan 14 2018 • Articles

Securitisation challenges ideas about the universality and objectivity of security and emphasises the ways in which knowledge is not merely ‘out there’ but is driven by interests.

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