China had the calculations of authority and timing wrong in gifting pandas to Taiwan, turning Taiwanese sentiment against trust and goodwill toward the mainland.
Patriarchal values fuel conflict, confine Iranian women to home, and impact their security, driving some to choose self-immolation. Yet, some also find agency in that.
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/
The continuation of Latin American populism will likely produce messianic leaders characterized by beautiful promises that often do not respect the reality of things.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/15/populist-transition-the-cases-of-venezuela-and-ecuador/
The Sudanese Civil War shows that mechanisms by which coups come to resemble ‘peace-inducing shocks’ are easily interrupted by ‘spoilers’ who oppose the terms of peace.
https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/13/do-coups-detat-influence-peace-negotiations-during-civil-war/
Russian narratives on Syria to justify military intervention are anti-Western, and comprise claims to legitimate counterterrorism and adherence to international law.
Game theory allows analysts to model even complex battlefield scenarios, enabling past and future military operations to be simulated and alternative courses of action compared.
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.
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.
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.
Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.
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/
The 2022 election was not marred by violence due to an interaction between elite incentives and opportunities for violence, institutional constraints, and civil society efforts.
The Darwin Port lease was justified by privileging market values, but trouble emerged when it became necessary to incorporate non-market national security values.
The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.
While Chile and Colombia have unique political landscapes, the recent emergence of leftist leaders indicates a shifting societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ people.
The mala fide accusations, indifference to intent, killing before legal proceedings conclude and impact on minorities point to anti-blasphemy in Pakistan as politicised.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/12/13/you-blaspheme-you-die-the-rise-of-anti-blasphemy-in-pakistan/
A disrupted internal unity requires a delicate balance in order to maintain the EU's position in the world.
China's economic reform avoided democratisation by balancing capitalism and socialism, highlighting industrial survival and nationalism, evading radical political change.
The case of the Cambodian Genocide suggests that ideology does not only motivate but potentially supplements rational motives in operationalizing wide-scale violence.
https://www.e-ir.info/2023/10/16/the-cambodian-genocide-operationalizing-violence-through-ideology/