Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.
Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.
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/
Due to Wendt's ontological-epistemological choices, he is unable to challenge neorealist assumptions about the nature of international relations.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/02/08/an-ontological-review-of-wendts-anarchy-is-what-states-make-of-it/
The Rana Plaza collapse was an event that made Postcolonialism and World Systems Theory come into consideration.
Post-development should open space in a previously colonised field for alternative ontologies on the nature of being and concepts of a good society.
Through their introduction, plot and characters, Western travel narratives in YouTube vlogs exoticize Gross National Happiness and normalise the GDP development paradigm.
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/11/25/how-do-travel-vlogs-contribute-to-gdps-dominance-in-world-politics/
This essay discusses if and where it is possible to draw the defining line(s) of trauma amidst a diversity of perspectives without depoliticizing or/and colonizing it.
Democratic backslide involves both the degradation of social development and democratic institutions. South Korea is experiencing the former, but not the latter.
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/07/05/south-korea-is-not-in-democratic-backslide-yet/
When analysing 'On War' today, it is important to make distinctions between Clausewitz the philosopher and Clausewitz the military strategist.
Analysing differences in social policy between NZ and the UK, which implemented similar economic policies 1984-1990, requires an ideationally focused critical lens.
The social, political, and operational environment within which advances in synthetic biology exist are crucial in shaping its potential impact on warfare.
Feminist scholars in different periods examine women's agency in time of conflict from distinct, yet sometimes strikingly similar, perspectives.
In the context of democratic stagnation among new democracies, the author explores the features and negative consequences of neo-patrimonialism in Nigeria.
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/04/26/neopatrimonialism-and-democratic-consolidation-in-nigeria/
China’s military modernisation and restructuring is a complex endeavour involving personalities, domestic politics, foreign relations and the economy.
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/04/22/chinas-world-class-military-modernisation/
Greater land returns to Indigenous people and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty can address the worsening global food insecurity crises.
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/04/15/transforming-global-food-systems-centering-indigenous-land-returns/
This essay seeks to understand what is envisioned for decolonizing IR. What does it take to realise this vision? Is it necessarily violent?
https://www.e-ir.info/2022/04/09/decolonisation-and-violence-what-it-takes-to-decolonise-ir/
The 2021 UP Population Bill enables the UP state to consolidate focus on Hindutva politics that deploys aggressive policing of women and their reproductive capacities.