Visualising the Drone: War Art as Embodied Resistance
War art belongs to an aesthetics that is derived from practical and real-world encounters, and which sets to apprehend the world via sense-based and affective processes.
Brexit and Arms Sales to the Philippines: A Reactive Approach to Human Rights
While difficult to prove that UK weapons are directly used to human suffering in the Philippines, there is a possibility that they were directly or indirectly used.
What is Happening in Afghanistan?
The US is losing the war and has become a part of the problem. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the US experience in Vietnam.
The Domestic Nightmare and the Unfulfilled Global Dreams of Brazil
In the name of the dream of global relevance in the future, Brazilian leaders often ends up forgetting to rule in the name of people’s well-being in the present.
Arrested Development: Brazil in a World in Crisis (2008-2018)
Caught in the transition between competitive scarcity and competitive abundance the status of Brazil as an emerging power was left hanging in the balance.
Interview – Nicole Aschoff
Nicole Aschoff discusses the limitations of Oprah Winfrey’s progressive ideas, the prospects for today’s anti-capitalist left in the US, and the rise of Jacobin magazine.
Does Denuclearization Mean Giving up North Korea’s ‘Treasured Sword’?
North Korea is floating several versions of denuclearization that point to arms control, mutual nuclear limitations and reductions, or maybe even a testing freeze.
Civilizations, Political Systems and Power Politics: A Critique of Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’
What we are seeing along the most conflictual of the civilizational fault lines is not so much a civilizational conflict as a conflict over alternative political systems.
The Nuclear Taboo and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ self-aware refashioning of the nuclear taboo draws attention to stigmatization processes in international politics.
Why (Clash of) Civilizations Discourses Just Won’t Go Away? Understanding the Civilizational Politics of Our Times
Identity politics has opened up the space for civilizations to reassert themselves as crucial discursive vectors of contemporary antagonisms.
