How Economic Incentives Undermine Human Rights Diplomacy in EU-China Relations
On December 30, 2020, the European Union (EU) and China announced that they concluded the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), a long-awaited deal that ...
Category: Essays
Queer Biopolitics in Authoritarian Iran
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) As photographer Laurence Rasti depicts above, queer life in Iran is fraught with tension....
Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Efficacy of National Action Plans in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire
Abstract Twenty years after the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, conflict-related sexual violence remains a persistent problem. In th...
Grassroots Medical Humanitarianism: Locally-led NGOs in Gaza, Humanitarianism’s Critics, and Agency
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Introduction Humanitarianism has been often lauded as a form of compassion, solidarity, a...
The Atomic Bomb is What States Make of it: A Constructivist Approach to Sanctioning Iran
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) “There is no “logic” of anarchy apart from the practices that create and inst...
Dictatorship of the Vengeful: The Rise of Civic Authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines
This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) “The real inversion takes place when, in their desire for a certain majesty, the masses j...
Following the Fork in the Road: A Comparative Framework for Analyzing Democracy’s Development in Belarus
Abstract In the wake of the overtly manipulated August 2020 Belarusian presidential election, nationwide protests against thirty-year-president Alexander Lukash...
Seeking like a State: Hamas’ Relationship with its Government Sponsors
Introduction Why do some terror organizations seek state sponsorship? Although the risks of cooperation for both terror organizations and states ar...
A “Growing Concern”: The Public’s Xenophobia Toward and Discrimination Against Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador
Introduction Since 2015, over 4.7 million Venezuelans have left their country and become part of the largest exodus in the history of Latin America (UNHCR, 2020...
The Empowerment of Women: Implications for Development and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Abstract When investigating why some countries develop and become prosperous and others remain in poverty and conflict, experts have discovered that women can m...