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De Facto Diplomacy: Taiwan’s Quest for Ontological Security in Somaliland

December 3, 2025

Bilateral ties between Taiwan and Somaliland strengthen each state’s identity and ontological security through strategic narrative engagement.

Asia Pacific Essays Global Ethics Identity Politics Middle East Political Economy Regions World World News

Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC

November 10, 2025

Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.

Essays Europe Foreign Policy International Security Regions World World News

Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action

November 10, 2025

Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.

Asia Pacific Essays Foreign Policy International History Political Economy Regions World World News

Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA

October 27, 2025

Strategic institutional flexibility, elite agency, and sectoral alignment enabled convergence between chaebol-driven South Korea and Singapore’s state-led technocracy.

Climate & Environment Essays Global Ethics World World News

The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

October 18, 2025

Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.

Essays International Security Middle East Non-State Actors / IGOs World World News

Woman at War: Female Combatant Participation in the PYD and ISIS

October 17, 2025

Strategic and organizational considerations play a more decisive role in shaping women’s combat participation in violent political groups.

Essays Global Ethics Identity Politics International Law International Security International Theory World World News

Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War

October 2, 2025

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.

Essays Foreign Policy Global Ethics International Theory World World News

Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary

September 30, 2025

Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.

Essays Europe Identity Politics International History Non-State Actors / IGOs Regions World World News

Bodies of Resistance: Visibilising Women’s Lives Under Romania’s Abortion Ban

September 10, 2025

Through memory work and visceral imagery, feminist accounts memorialize women as victims and dissidents, yet they invertedly recenter male voice and reinforce patriarchy.

Africa Essays Europe International Security Non-State Actors / IGOs Regions World World News

EUCAP Nestor and EUFOR Chad/CAR: The EU’s Role as a Global Security Actor

September 4, 2025

From 2008 to 2014, EU security operations in Africa revealed a clash between human security principles and members’ national interests, undermining the EU’s global role.

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De Facto Diplomacy: Taiwan’s Quest for Ontological Security in Somaliland

Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC

Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action

Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA

The Colonial Legacy of Climate Vulnerability: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis

Woman at War: Female Combatant Participation in the PYD and ISIS

Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War

Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary

Bodies of Resistance: Visibilising Women’s Lives Under Romania’s Abortion Ban

EUCAP Nestor and EUFOR Chad/CAR: The EU’s Role as a Global Security Actor

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