Archive for 2014

Global Governance and the Democratic Aspect of Cross-Border Communications

Stefanie Kam • Jul 4 2014 • Essays

The technological intensification of the communication channels across the globe will trigger the need for governing the democratic aspect of cross-border communications.

Masculine Rivalries and Security: The US and UK in Iraq and Afghanistan

Claire Duncanson • Jul 4 2014 • Articles

The UK and US constructed their masculine identities in relation to each other in Iraq and Afghanistan. This rivalry has implications for achieving security.

Recontextualising the ‘War on Terror’: Discursive Practices from Bush to Obama

David Morgan • Jul 3 2014 • Essays

The strategies employed by the Bush administration after 9/11 to manufacture public consent for action have since been recontextualised towards Iran by Barack Obama.

Christian Traditional Values Prefiguring the Development of Human Rights

Daniel Golebiewski • Jul 3 2014 • Essays

The global expression of human rights found in the UDHR contains an implicit touch of Christian values.

ASEAN: Going It Alone? Not Quite

See Seng Tan • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Despite decades of confidence-building, distrust among ASEAN member states has remained high, limiting the extent of intraregional cooperation.

New Media and Latin American Violent Movements

W. Alejandro Sánchez and Kelly Morrison • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Social media have enabled Latin American violent movements to share their stories, whether this be the nobility of their causes or the extravagance of their lifestyles.

Comparing Third-Party Management of Peace Spoilers in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Anna Möller-Loswick • Jul 2 2014 • Essays

The way third parties manage spoilers during peace processes plays an important role in explaining why some peace agreements are successful and why others fail.

Contradictions Implicit in the Idea of Global Civil Society

Ricardo Villanueva • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

Because the idea of Global Civil Society is in an embryonic stage, there are fundamental contradictions within its global, civil and societal dimensions.

‘Atheist Fundamentalists’? Characterising New Atheist Non-Belief

Stuart McAnulla • Jul 2 2014 • Articles

The new atheism offers a brand of anti-religious politics which self-consciously seeks to provoke strong reactions. But describing it as ‘fundamentalism’ is inaccurate.

Is the Current Political Turmoil of the ‘Information Age’ Revolutionary?

Caio Quero • Jul 1 2014 • Essays

Although the networked structures of new social movements represent a shift from the hierarchical and centralised forms of previous models, they are not unprecedented.

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