The Limit of Defense: Life in a Taiwanese Military Training Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Leo Chu
On the morning of 23rd February 2021, I boarded a bus from my home in northern Taiwan to a nearby military training …
‘Silicon health’ for Africa: Understanding the rise and impact of drone logistics by René Umlauf
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are on the rise. During the ongoing corona crisis their potential to either monitor …
#Review: Whose Life Is Worth More?
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) …
Stephen Campbell: What can workers expect in post-coup Myanmar?
International media coverage of the February 1st military coup in Myanmar has been rather consistent. The focus, overwhelmingly, has been on the …
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing …
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center …
Enlisted Laborers of Public Health: overlaps in the work of soldiers in historical perspective by Pamela Maddock
In April, a friend relayed her experience of getting a test for COVID-19 at a drive-through site at a university in Rhode …
#Afterlives: The Afterlife of Impossible Friendships
“My best friend from the army was a unit officer responsible for food and supplies. His name was Đura and he was …
Major Benjamin Alvord discusses Eastern Oregon Settlement, 1853
In 1853, the former Superintendent of Indian Affairs of Oregon Anson Dart had been forced to resign as none of his nineteen …
Architecture as a Justice-Accessing Technology in Postwar Guatemala
Forest analysis of scorched earth. Courtesy of Daniele Profeta. Princeton University, 2015. On an early January morning in 2015 a group of …
Can a Transgender Body Be the Body of the Nation?
While the US federal government remained in the longest partial shutdown in history, the Trump administration managed to make headway in its …
Steve Reyna: Replacing Lady Liberty: Trump and the American Way
Der Spiegel, a well-thought-of magazine, ran in February 2017 a cover depicting the newly elected President Donald Trump, standing with one arm …
Donald Trump and Empire: An Assessment
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations …
In the Journals – April 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at some of the many recent publications on the law, sovereignty, security and the …
Making Connections Through Simulation
F-5N Tiger II Simulator at NAS Fallon. Photo Courtesy Joseph K. Robinson The simulator operator warned me that I might get sick. …
Pigafetta on the Cannons of ‘Burne’
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the …
Pigafetta on the Cannons of ‘Burne’
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan's fatal encounter with the …
Pigafetta on the Cannons of ‘Burne’
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the …
Zoë Wool’s “After War: The Weight of Life At Walter Reed” by Christopher Webb
After War: The Weight of Life At Walter Reed by Zoë Wool Duke University Press, 2015, 264 pages. In After War: The …
Caribbean military encounters
How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left …