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Student Essays
Interview – Bill Niven
Bill Niven explores how memory — national, transnational and contested — shapes identity, history, and politics in Germany and beyond.
Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA
Strategic institutional flexibility, elite agency, and sectoral alignment enabled convergence between chaebol-driven South Korea and Singapore’s state-led technocracy.
Interview – Sharon Bong
Sharon Bong explores faith, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia, and calls for context-rooted rights activism that bridges religion, resistance, and belonging.
The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis
Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.
Woman at War: Female Combatant Participation in the PYD and ISIS
Strategic and organizational considerations play a more decisive role in shaping women’s combat participation in violent political groups.
Interview – Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani urges IR scholars to decolonize thought, embrace multipolarity, and rethink Western dominance as Asia and the Global South reshape world order.
Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.
Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.
Interview – Evren Balta
Evren Balta explores Turkey’s hybrid foreign policy, the entanglement of domestic and global politics amidst high-profile conflicts, and calls for a plural vision of IR.
Bodies of Resistance: Visibilising Women’s Lives Under Romania’s Abortion Ban
Through memory work and visceral imagery, feminist accounts memorialize women as victims and dissidents, yet they invertedly recenter male voice and reinforce patriarchy.
