Security

The Obama Administration and Israel: Aberration or Harbinger of Change?

Jonathan Sciarcon • Aug 29 2016 • Articles

We are witnessing the start of an unraveling bi-partisan support in the US for Israel, which has potentially been hurried by the Obama-Netanyahu feud.

Finger on the Nuclear Button: Gender, Responsibility and Nuclear Custodianship

Shampa Biswas • Aug 24 2016 • Articles

Hillary Clinton quite literally turned the tables on Trump – inverting the gender binary that had for centuries kept women from public office

Catastrophic Futures, Precarious Presents & Temporal Politics of (In)security

Liam P.D. Stockdale • Aug 19 2016 • Articles

the post-9/11 temporalisation of security has taken the form of a politics of pre-emption in which radical uncertainty constitutes the basis for anticipatory action.

Disrupting the ‘Conditional Selfhood’ of Threat Construction

Kathryn Marie Fisher • Aug 15 2016 • Articles

It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.

Interview – James Der Derian

E-International Relations • Aug 5 2016 • Features

James Der Derian explains the importance of quantum physics to the social sciences, comments on the political science prison, and argues for more speculation in IR.

Nuclear Abolition or Deterrence: A Nuclear Ethics Debate

Thomas E. Doyle II • Jul 29 2016 • Articles

For nuclear disarmament to succeed, it must be animated by diverse actors who have arrived at a moral consensus over the values at stake.

India, the NSG, and the Chinese Impasse

Reshmi Kazi • Jul 20 2016 • Articles

China’s opposition to India’s admission to the NSG appears a systemic attempt at discrimination against India – a visibly responsible nuclear power.

The European Response to the Syrian War: Pathologies Uncovered

Christiane Fröhlich • Jul 8 2016 • Articles

The EU must effectively address its migration pathologies and dysfunctionalities to fulfil its humanitarian promise to be a space of freedom, prosperity and rule of law

Review – Ethics and Global Security

Fiona Robinson • May 12 2016 • Features

Burke et al. offer refreshingly optimistic thinking on security. Their book is required reading for anyone interested in, and concerned about, our common future.

Review – Asia’s New Battlefield

Laura Southgate • Mar 26 2016 • Features

A comprehensive analysis of the current battle for primacy in the Western Pacific which would be of benefit to students, academics, policy-makers and the general public.

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