Benjamin Zala

Benjamin Zala is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester and an advisor to the Sustainable Security Programme at the Oxford Research Group.

The return of great-power politics

“Sustainable security” claims to address the causes of insecurity, not just symptoms. But when those “symptoms” are huge inter-state crises—as between China and Japan over disputed islands or between the US and Russia over Ukraine—what does it have to offer?

By Benjamin Zala

/ 25 Apr 2014