This essay analyses international stabilization missions as contemporary forms of crisis management in conflict and post-conflict environments. While maintaining some similarities and differences, ‘stabilization has emerged ...

In his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," Louis Althusser criticizes the ideology-theory developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology. Althusser characterizes the ideology-theory ...

This essay explores the severity of the current crisis moment for global governance. This crisis is predicated upon decreased engagement of key western democracies coupled with the rising presence and tolerance of illiberal ...

The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding represents a reorientation of the process to better integrate local actors in order to promote and facilitate agency and national ownership. Institutional capacity building, promotion of ...

This paper seeks to investigate the ties between liberalism and imperialism. Although liberalism is not often associated with imperial tendencies, the social relationship between liberal and nonliberal peoples does not ...

Guantanamo Bay is commonly referred to as a ‘legal black hole’ where the United States violated the international prohibitions of torture in the years following the 9/11 attacks. The Bush administration justified these ...

Recent election campaigns in several prominent liberal democracies have seen the rise to prominence of both right and left-wing populist candidates. While significant media and scholarly attention has focused on the former, ...

This thesis is an exploration of the nature and prevalence of sexual violence in large scale conflicts. It is written with a reflective standpoint as an innovative methodology, drawing on the work of Heather Smith, and the ...

The modern convergence of technology and social control has met its current peak in Xinjiang, China, as millions of ethnic and religious minorities are targeted, confined, and reformed in the region’s camp detention system. ...