Volume 10, Number 2, October-November 2023
ISSN: 2054-2089 (Print) 2397-7825 (Online) Volume 10, Number 2
Table of Contents
Editorial 128
ARTICLES
How has the US maintained hegemony in the international oil trade through its control in the Middle East? 133
Arya Joshi
Has the threat posed by China to international security been overstated? 149
Owen Tench
Efficacy of counter-terrorism cooperation: A critical appraisal of Nigeria–United States counter-terrorism cooperation 165
Abimbola Joseph Owojori, Omolara V. Akinyemi, and Muhammad Danial Azman
COVID-19 pandemic exposes deep fault lines in global health governance: Lessons for the WHO 190
Lucky Imade
Profit-driven policy and human insecurity 210
Hannah Fereday
Should they stay or should they go? Modern European narratives on refugees 228
Sultan Baig
Putting names to numbers: The creation of a systematic casualty recording database for the ongoing Russian aggression within Ukraine 238
Emily Ward
Are religious beliefs truly the root cause of terrorism? 252
Jannah Aishah Maysun
The UK counter-terrorism strategy and international justice 264
Manpreet Kaur Somal
Editorial Team
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editors:
Bülent Gökay, Keele University (Founding Editor)
Ilia Xypolia, University of Aberdeen (Reviews Editor)
Moran Mandelbaum, Keele University (Associate Editor)
Lily Hamourtziadou, Birmingham City University (Special Issues Editor)
Members of the Editorial Board:
Vassilis Fouskas, University of East London (Chair of the Editorial Board)
Darrell Whitman, Davis-California (Contributing Editor)
Phil Catney, Keele University
Farzana Shain, Keele University
Rachel Turner, Keele University
John Bale, Keele University
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Tim Doyle, University of Adelaide
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, London University
Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University
Thais Maingon, Universidad Central De Venezuela
Tunc Aybak, Middlesex University
Francisco Dominguez, Middlesex University
Binoy Kampmark, RMIT University, Melbourne
Mervyn O’Driscoll, University College Cork
Nong Van Dan (M.D. Bui), National Economics University, Hanoi
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Emre Iseri, Yasar University, Izmir
Oguz Dilek, Keele University
Hasan Al-Momani, University of Jordan
Peshawa Mohammed, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan
Nazariah Osman, Universiti Utara Malaysia
Sameena Dalwai, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Rajdeep Pakanati, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Mustafa Yasacan, Keele University
Mustafa Demir, Keele University