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Reshaping Global South Feminism in International Relations

Reshaping Global South Feminism in International Relations

International relations (IR) have long been shaped by Western-centric perspectives, often sidelining the lived experiences of the Global South. Specifically, the situation of women in the postcolonial world does not enter the mainstream feminist debates very...

Digital Colonialism: Navigating New Forms of Servitude in Industry 4.0

Digital Colonialism: Navigating New Forms of Servitude in Industry 4.0

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...

Undermining Decolonisation

Undermining Decolonisation

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...

Captive Minds, Coloniality and International Relations

Captive Minds, Coloniality and International Relations

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...

Reading Between the Lines: The Devil is in the Interpretation

Reading Between the Lines: The Devil is in the Interpretation

“…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...

‘Eurocentrism’ in the Field of International Relations (IR)

‘Eurocentrism’ in the Field of International Relations (IR)

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...