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...
Category: Essays
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...
Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”
This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...
The Naxalite Insurgency in India: Addressing the Limitations of Greed and Grievance in Conflict Resolution
I. Introduction The Indian state and academic analysis often adopt – unintentionally or otherwise – Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler’s global theoreti...
China’s ICT Engagement in Africa: A Comparative Analysis
This piece was published in the Winter Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Abstract This paper will analyze the methods, extent, and economic and political effects ...
A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF ‘JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG’
The haunting German folk-song, “Wenn Wir Marschieren,”[1] serves as a cautionary point about collective German complicity in the Holocaust, and is used as ...
The Role of State Identity in Pandemic Response: The Case of Belarus and Georgia
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the newly independent republics of Belarus and Georgia began the task of building their nation-states. The politic...
Can the Personal be Political?: A Critique of Gandhi’s Nonviolence in the Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement
Part I. Introduction In 1841, Hong Kong became a British colony, having been ceded by China after the First Opium War. The British reaffirmed their sovere...
Brother-and-Sister Brotherhood: Sexual Harassment and Gender-Mixed Barracks in the Norwegian Armed Forces
The sun never rose the first day Kari began her service in the Norwegian Armed Forces.[1] Daylight didn’t appear at Setermoen Camp, a northern army base situate...