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War and Crisis: The Impact of Narratives on the Militarisation of U.S. Police
Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.
Imperialism in Contemporary Russian Liberalism: Alexei Navalny’s Rhetoric
Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government's control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny's rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.
The Oslo Process: The Façade of Peace between Palestine and Israel
Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/12/the-oslo-process-the-facade-of-peace-between-palestine-and-israel/
Analysing the Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights
Arguments against SERs' justiciability—on grounds of their ‘costly’ nature, vagueness, intangibility, and the incapacity of courts—prove counterproductive and misguided.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/06/analysing-the-justiciability-of-social-and-economic-rights/
Beijing’s Charm Offensive: China’s Soft Power Projection in Central Asia
China's education diplomacy in CARs elucidates the intricacies of building cultural affinity, the nuances of alignment, and the synergy between hard and soft power.
How the Islamic State Weaponizes Imitation in Its Propaganda
Aggressive imitation is meant not only to justify IS’s violence but to express its worldview—of restoring Muslim honour by avenging the humiliation Muslims have suffered.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/24/how-the-islamic-state-weaponizes-imitation-in-its-propaganda/
Laboratories at Home and Abroad: Russian Information Operations Pre-Deployment
The internal Russian information space serves as a testing ground for Russia's information operations before they are deployed against countries of the post-Soviet space.
Nuclear Brinkmanship in Russia Today: A Strategic Narrative Analysis
RT portrays the international system as a new Cold War system with a nuclear face-off between two superpowers and Russia as facing nuclear threats from Ukraine and NATO.
Anthroprocene or Capitalocene: Navigating the Politics of Climate Change
Climate change cannot be tackled by capitalist ecological policies of financial institutions and Western states but socio-economic justice and postcolonial epistemes.
Traumatic Memory and Historical Narratives
To induce successes in transitional justice, traumatic memory is mechanised resulting in oversimplification of relations.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/08/traumatic-memory-and-historical-narratives/
Predictability in an Unpredictable World: Ritual and the NATO Summit in Vilnius
Despite, but also due to, Europe's unprecedented security landscape, the 2023 NATO Summit followed a familiar ritualized script that eclipsed any theatrical performances.
Destruction, Colonialism, and Capital: Genocidal Perspectives on Palestine
Narrow definitions of genocide facilitate its continuation, as evidenced by Israel's ongoing physical, economic, and cultural destruction of the Palestinian society.
Cuban Intelligence after the Cold War: A Case Study in Adaptation and Influence
Cuban intelligence adeptly evolved post-Cold War by prioritizing information acquisition and alliances to safeguard its national interests.
Preventing Apocalyptic Futures: The Need for Alternatives to Development
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina show fundamental issues in the international efforts of peace-building and transitional justice during the post-war reconstruction period.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/20/transitional-justice-and-peacebuilding-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability
Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.
Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?
The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric.
The Stopping Power of Water: An Outdated Concept?
The oceans do not pose nearly as large of an obstacle to a regional hegemon attempting to venture further outwards as they have in the past.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/03/07/the-stopping-power-of-water-an-outdated-concept/
Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture
Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea's strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational' security choices during the Cold War and now.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji
Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.
The Origins of Regionalism in the EU and ASEAN
Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/02/25/the-origins-of-regionalism-in-the-eu-and-asean/
Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth
The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Imperialist Dynamics in International Law
By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.
Development and Authoritarianism: China’s Political Culture and Economic Reforms
China's economic reform avoided democratisation by balancing capitalism and socialism, highlighting industrial survival and nationalism, evading radical political change.
The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation
Perception of women as a nation's reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/07/31/the-violence-of-our-imaginations-war-women-nation/
Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention
Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.
On the Role of Intelligence in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War
The answer to whether intelligence reduces uncertainty or overcomplicates the decision-making process lies somewhere in between.
Cartographic Domination in British India
As the authoritative text and imbued with colonial power, maps deeply affected how Indians related to their surroundings and their history and culture.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/02/28/cartographic-domination-in-british-india/
Frantz Fanon and the Inefficacy of Anti-colonial Violence
A more effective way of combatting colonial immanent violence is to dismantle the racialised and gendered discourses that make this violence possible.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/02/27/frantz-fanon-and-the-inefficacy-of-anti-colonial-violence/
Neo-Colonialism in Africa? An Analysis of a UK-Funded Volunteer Abroad Programme
The International Citizen Service programme failed to challenge unequal power dynamics between the Global North and Global South and perpetuated neo-colonial relations.