Although the world has undergone four waves of industrial revolution, one phenomenon remains intact: the exploitation of weaker nations at the hands of stronger ones. Industry 4.0 is essentially characterized by data and the deployment of emerging technologies to...

The term ‘decolonisation’ is generally believed to have been coined by a German scholar named Moritz Julius Bonn in 1932,1 but as a comparison of the number of scholarly articles containing the term before and after the year 2000 shows,2 its use has risen sharply in...

Ever since Stanley Hoffman1 exposed International Relations as a hegemonized discipline, there has been a growing trend among International Relations scholars to unveil the knowledge and power structures which sustain the hegemony of the West in knowledge production...

“…now is not the moment to blame the victim,” writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, and Dan Raviv in Time Magazine1 while defending the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made Gaza the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’2 and killed thousands of...

The field of International Relations (IR) adopts a ‘Eurocentric’ gaze in envisioning world politics. With Eurocentric biases contaminating IR, the discipline is identified as being parochial and not representative of the non-Western realities. Various scholars from...

Just as a captain cannot steer a ship without the crew's cooperation, rulers cannot exercise power without the consent of the governed or as Parker contends: Dominant groups in society, including fundamentally but not exclusively the ruling class, maintain their...

A body of discourse is emerging on the practice of ‘decolonization’ within education and the larger social sciences. Putting it plainly, decolonization means “the undoing of colonialism.”1 Decolonization signifies a range of positions that argue that despite former...

Antique photograph of the British Empire: Annexation of the territory of the king of AdoBeginning with uncivilized and barbarians and then moving to failed states; fragile states; failing states; and rogues states, Ladies and gentlemen we have now arrived to the...

The 21st century has brought about multiple problems for democracies engaged in armed conflicts. One such major problem that has caught the attention of international humanitarian watchdogs is the use of civilians as human shields during hostilities. Despite existing...