Tag: Louis Teo
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A Better Militarization: why police should adopt military cultures and structures of accountability and restraint
An analysis of police conduct from the perspective of civil-military relations and state political development.
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Vice Empires: Causes and Implications of Narco-State Emergence
This essay will analyse three narco-states in their formative stages, and seek to understand why states undergo this process of narcotization and what implications the narco transformation will have, for both the states themselves as well as their wider regions.
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To Boldly Go: the Geopolitics of Space Colonization
Space travel. The stuff of dreams, fantasy, and hope. But what would the consequences be when we start colonising the stars?
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Dragons aping Bears: Why Russian Disinformation Tactics failed for China
This essay will explore how the Chinese COVID-19 disinformation campaign failed on all three tactical, strategic and grand strategic levels.
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Final Pandemic: the Geopolitics of Zombie Outbreaks
This essay will explore how an outbreak of zombies would play out from a geopolitical perspective. Would international communication and cooperation be possible? Could zombies be weaponized? How could the balance of power be changed? Answering these three questions allows us to identify fault lines in our present international structure, giving us a better understanding…
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Abdicating Murder to the Machines: the Politics of Autonomous Killer Robots
This essay shall examine the near-future phenomenon of autonomous killer robots, explore its implications for defence policy, and detail what an “autonomous lethality” revolution could look like using some of the possibilities explored in science fiction.
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Crossroad of Empires: Turkey between Brussels, Moscow and Washington
Turkey sees itself as wedged between ravenous Russia in the North, perfidious Europa in the West, lawless Arabia in the South-East, treasonous Kurds within and a demanding and difficult American ally in faraway seas. This essay will seek to analyse how Turkey has struggled to maintain a sustainable position amidst such chaos and in doing…
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Shaky Citadel: Taiwan’s Struggle for Survival
A disclaimer: Taiwan and the Republic of China are used interchangeably to simplify nomenclature. No political position is intended by the use of either term. A Brief History of Taiwan Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China (ROC), attained its current state in 1949 after the Kuomintang (国民党), or the Nationalists, under the command…
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Chimeric State: Iran between Technocracy and Theocracy
The Iranian state system is a truly unique creature, having maintained both twin heads of fierce personality-based theocracy and experienced institutionalized technocracy. In merging these two normally exclusive traits, it has created a chimeric contradiction, which has allowed it to command the monstrous tools of regional pan-Shiite militia and fervent warrior jihadists with the expertise,…
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To Deal with Devils: Why Arms Sales to Humans Rights Abusers and War Criminals should continue
This essay will argue that liberal states (or states that otherwise uphold the status-quo rules-based liberal order), should maintain controlled arms sales to rogue states and international bad actors, with room for specific temporary restrictions, for sake of limiting atrocities, building cooperation and securing domestic interests.
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