Post-Race Rhetoric in Contemporary American Politics
By analysing the ongoing Ferguson protests and post-race rhetoric, America is a society still burdened by racial injustices which favour white citizens.
To What Extent Is Neopatrimonialism the Unchanging Way in Which ‘Africa Works’?
While neopatrimonialism has been a constant in politics in African states in recent years, its form and content is constantly changing and evolving.
The Legal and Social Condition of the Enslaved Population in Classical Athens
The normative principles of the Athenian urban constituency may have contained and funnelled the commercial, financial, and collective activities of the enslaved sectors.
Does Regionalism Challenge Globalization or Build Upon It?
Whilst the globe may be ‘shrinking’ with the advancement of technology and increasing interdependence, numerous weaknesses and unaddressed atrocities remain lay within the system of ‘globalized’ international relations. This paper argues that in response to the many faults the system of ‘globalization’ contains, a new form of regionalism has arisen in the world to address what global multilateralism can not.
Deterrence and Terrorism in the Modern Era
The efficacy and applicability of deterrence depends on the broader question of how one conceptualises and defines terrorism, and whether one deems terrorism insurmountable and ‘evil’ or recognises root causes, legitimate grievances and pathways to accommodation.
Public War, Private Soldiers
On September 16, 2007, the issue of private military firms exploded out of the dry confines of academic debate and into the public consciousness as bright, bloody pictures blanketed the newspapers and television networks that had long ignored the subject. Seventeen Iraqis had been violently killed and more than twenty others wounded while they went about their business in Nisour Square, in the heart of Baghdad’s once fashionable Mansour District.
Beyond Westphalia: Rethinking Fundamental Ontology in IR
The limits of the international – of our political imagination – constitute a problem in that we have great difficulty in answering the question: what does it mean to go beyond the state system of Westphalia?
Keynesianism or New Interventionism? Economic discourses in post-crisis Britain
This paper examines the discourses within the British media following the 2008 financial crisis. The renewed interest in the writings of John Maynard Keynes had been heralded by some commentators as a paradigm shift in economic thought. The paper argues that rather than a Keynesian revolution, British thinking was dominated by ‘New Interventionism’; this conceived of the crisis as temporary contractions in consumer demand and credit lines.
The Limits of Unlearning: Liberal Feminism from the Postcolonial Perspective
We are trapped in our experiences as colonisers and colonised, and in our resulting positions of power or powerlessness. Therefore, representation of ‘subaltern women’ by white western liberal feminists remains problematic, since tied up in the notion of representation are the complications of power, knowledge and language.
The EU-Russia Sanctions Regime: Theory-Practice Interplay
The ongoing Ukrainian crisis and an unprecedented deterioration of relations between the EU and Russia have presented another case of sanctions policy.
