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To What Extent Did Hollywood Bolster Racialised Stereotypes in Film as a Direct Response to War?
According to anarchist writer Randolph Bourne “war is the health of the state”. Assuming this to be true, one can infer governments...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202016 min read
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Depictions of Gender in Weimar Cinema
The quote “it’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it” is confirmed by Weimar cinema, as the impact of war manifests not...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202012 min read
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Gender Divisions of Labour in Migrant Labour, Salaried Jobs, and Wealth Elites
Gender permeates all aspects of the work sector and can function as a catalyst or hindrance to progression, as well as a basis for...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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Why Are Gender and Sexuality So Central to the ‘War on Terror’?
Despite the ‘war on terror’ occupying much of the focus of international relations, a sociological approach proves equally compelling due...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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What Is the Value of Intersectionality to the Sociological Study of Gender?
Audre Lord summarises the critique intersectional feminists have of non-intersectional approaches; “what woman here is so enamoured of...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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What Difference Does a Transnational Approach Make to Gendered Studies of Immigration and War?
Transnational feminism’s charm has been summarised by feminist activist, Patricia Valoy; “While Western feminism overemphasizes...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20207 min read
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Can and Does Humanitarian Assistance Build Peace?
The extent in which aid and development should converge is one of contestation, with advocates of the fusion insisting humanitarianism...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202011 min read
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‘No One Is Better Equipped Than Feminists to Study War Because War Knows Gender Intimately’
IR feminists seek to correct disciplinary myopia through forcing scholars to situate their studies deeper into the messy complexity of...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20207 min read
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What Is Liberal Peace?
Whether in agreeance with its implementation or deeply opposed to the notion of a liberal peace, it is a topic that occupies much of IR’s...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20206 min read
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Is War the Surest Route to Sustainable Peace?
Edward N. Luttwak asserts states should resist intervention “not because they are indifferent to human suffering but precisely because...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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How Important Is the Media in Shaping Foreign Policy?
Once considered subordinate to state-centric analyses, considerations of the media have proliferated in line with FPA’s emergence....
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202011 min read
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Is Foreign Policy Decision Making Ever Rational?
It is valid to assume leaders retain some degree of rationality when making foreign policy, but the extent in which this rationality is...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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Why Is Much of the Violence Experienced by Women During Interstate Conflict of a Sexual Nature?
According to former UN Peacekeeping Operation commander Major General Patrick Carnmaert, “it is now more dangerous to be a woman than to...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20209 min read
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Why Do States Leave International Institutions?
Explanations outlining why states leave international institutions require theoretical analysis to make sense of the long and short term...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20207 min read
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Can Theoretical Approaches Explain the Decision of the UK to Leave the European Union?
It is virtually essential scholars studying the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (a process that will be referred to as ‘Brexit’...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20205 min read
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‘Men and Masculinity Are Overlooked in Gender History’
Concerns for the inclusivity of men and masculinity in gender history were expressed early as 1975, with historian Natalie Zemon Davis...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202010 min read
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The Pitfalls of a Social History Approach to Investigating the Past
Social history, also referred to as “the history of the people with the politics left out”, has been widely criticised for celebrating...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20207 min read
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‘Oral History Methodologies Have Enabled Historians to Write History More Inclusively'
It is of limited debate that oral history methodologies have enabled historians to write the history of a wider range of populations, but...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20206 min read
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How Well Has the UN Defended and Developed the Cause of Human Rights Since 1948?
According to author, Amit Ray, “the role of the UN is not policing but awakening the heart centre of humanity”. A humanitarian cause can...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202012 min read
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What Were the Key Arguments That Won Over Lawmakers in the Battle for Women’s Suffrage?
“Why should people who experience pregnancies and monthly indispositions be unable to exercise rights we would never refuse to men who...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 202012 min read
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The Importance of Stoic Ideas of Cosmopolitanism in the Greco-Roman World
It is indisputable that Stoic ideas of Cosmopolitanism were of substantial importance in the Greco-Rome world, but the limits of this...
Lauren Eales
Jul 17, 20209 min read
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The Importance of Gender in Explaining the Conduct of International Affairs
The polarised role of gender in a global context can best be summarised in the following quote: “Does attention to women and gender...
Lauren Eales
May 23, 20185 min read
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'A General War Broke Out in Europe in 1914 Because Both Sides Thought That They Could Win It'
The Great War, commonly referred to as the war to end all wars, is a topic of much debate by historians for the little clarity that...
Lauren Eales
May 16, 20187 min read
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What Does Realism Allow Us to See in World Politics - and What Does It Miss?
To grasp what realism, also referred to as the ‘power-politics’ school of thought, enables us to see in world politics (and what it might...
Lauren Eales
May 9, 20186 min read
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The Main Challenges of Charles V's Reign
The reign of Charles V proved to be one of many challenges; some predestined, and some as a result of his leadership style. To evaluate...
Lauren Eales
May 2, 20187 min read
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Was Distaste From the Metropole the Main Accelerator of Decolonisation Between 1945-1968?
It is inaccurate to attribute the decolonisation process that took place between 1945-1968 to one sole accelerating factor. Whilst the...
Lauren Eales
Apr 25, 20188 min read
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Feminism; A Theory or Political Project?
In determining whether feminism is a theory or a political project, the terms must first be defined. The word ‘theory’ is one of many...
Lauren Eales
Apr 18, 20187 min read
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Was Enmity the Only Unifier of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union Between 1941-1945?
Upon the realisation during the Second World War that it was not just territory and resources at stake but instead the total reordering...
Lauren Eales
Apr 11, 20189 min read
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The Key Components of Renaissance Humanism
The Renaissance, understood to be the period of Western history from 1300-1600, is one of great debate for historians; whether that...
Lauren Eales
Apr 4, 20187 min read
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