To uncover a truly global security perspective, scholars should detach themselves from the parochial boundaries of the Western academic discipline of IR and look to the international realm more broadly for approaches that may not necessarily look like orthodox (Western) theory.
This article proposes a non-Western alternative to Eurocentric IR theory by marrying together aspects of three unconventional cosmologies from outside of the constructed Western IR boundary – Daoism, ubuntu, and dharma.
The UN is unable to effectively tackle CSRV towards men due to the underlying gendered discourses underpinning its current security agenda, which serves to reinforce the binary of women as victims and men as perpetrators.
The Unapologetic Academic 