NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY STUDIES
Non-traditional Security Studies addresses the mounting non-traditional issues and challenges in the South Asian region arising from non-military sources, such as Climate Change, Irregular Migration, Terrorism, Resource Wars, Disaster Management, Drug Trafficking, Transnational Crime etc. Factors as such are the security challenges that aren’t considered mainstream and are emerging as dynamics in conflict therefore affecting the national and international security becoming a part of non-traditional security issues that has emerged as the greatest challenges of 21st century.
ARTICLES
Narco-Terrorism in Afghanistan
The economic impact of the opium ban, combined with falling aid and the Taliban's actions against women, is likely to exacerbate poverty and increase outmigration which could potentially lead to increased refugee flows toward neighboring countries, including Nepal.
Yellow Journalism in International Relations
In a significantly globalized and interconnected world, where information and news are disseminated rapidly and widely, combating yellow journalism in IR is essential to foster peace, harmony and promote a healthy media landscape, democracy and understanding among countries.
Cooking up Conflict: A Gastronationalist Reading of the Israel-Palestine War
Food, in its daily domestic and mundane practices might not seem politically significant, but manifests as a “representation of a nation that creates a sense of shared national identity”.
Shifting Sands: How Global Aging Populations are Redefining Economic Power and Geopolitics
The rising influence of countries with younger populations, particularly India, underscores the shifting balance of global power.
Human trafficking: An Unplucked Thorn in Indo-Nepal Ties
Trends showcase that after every natural disaster, migration to India from Nepal has increased and the Jajarkot tremor is bound to give rise to the number of human trafficking across the border.
Afghanistan’s Economic Outlook under the Taliban
Since the Taliban came to power, the health services have been pathetic and Afghan people have struggled to find economic opportunities to sustain their life where women's rights and the rights of minorities have been threatened.
Expanding Horizon of IR Discourse: An Exposition on Queer IR Theory
The representation of individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community is essential not only in deconstructing normative dichotomies within IR, but also to give further representation to these individuals in understanding social dynamics within both domestic and international realms.
Black Lives Matter Movement and the ‘Problem of Problems’ of the 21st Century
The video of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer caused a flood of emotions that has pushed people all around the globe to take to the streets and the internet to make their demand for racial justice.