If international relations as a field is to have a just purpose—not just justifying the power-hoarding and power-wielding of a ruling class—it needs more concepts to critique power, relate policy to peaceful ends, and surface rather than shroud the price that others...
We need a critical strategic studies, or maybe a strategic peace studies. Critical security studies, of course, is a venerable research tradition that I sometimes...
Since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021, there have been growing calls by many Afghans, along with the international community, to protect the rights of women and girls....
Congratulations to Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan for winning the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World. As readers may recall, Chenoweth is a Duck of Minerva guest blogger. Chenoweth...
Galtung is a pivotal figure in the development of Peace Studies. My only real interface with his work is in the form of his influential "Structural Theory of Imperialism" (PDF), which specified key features of empire as a logic of organization. According to Haaretz, Galtung has been accused of multiple anti-semitic statements over the past two years. Pretty unpleasant stuff, e.g.,Galtung’s repeated anti-Semitic remarks were exposed by the website of the Norwegian periodical, “Humanist.” (https://humanist.no) Some of the comments were made during a lecture at the University of Oslo last...