Collage: An Art-inspired Methodology for Studying Laughter in World Politics
To think through collage is to invent and apply conceptual frames and create juxtapositions that disrupt and render historically contingent accepted knowledge practices.
US Credibility in the Middle East and the Nuclear Deal with Iran
The US credibility in the Middle East depends on the successful implementation of policies to maintain regime stability and ensure the status quo of power in the region.
Why Are Elections Flashpoints for Violence & Insecurity and Can This Be Avoided?
It is crucial to sustainable peace that elections are not seen as opportunities to engage in hostile takeovers, but instead allow for peaceful power transitions.
International Negotiations: Atomic Energy and Iran
It is possible that nuclear negotiations with Iran will continue to prove fruitless and will continue on for an indefinite time.
Australian, British, and US Approaches to Countering Islamic Extremists
By comparing and analysing the counter-radicalisation strategies of the three countries, disparate approaches are revealed that all contain some degree of effectiveness.
Women’s Power to Stop War: Lessons for the International Studies Association
Creative energy and renewed multilateralism is needed to challenge the ideological imperialism that dominates our thinking, research and action around peace and security.
Review – Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire
Mooers’ book offers a refreshing revisited critique of capital and of the varied contradictions of neoliberalism and its impact on ideas of national/global citizenship.
A Social Constructivist’s Explanation of the Iranian Revolution
The extent to which social forces influenced the overhaul of Iranian society presents an advantageous case study which social constructivism can explain.
Anxiety in The British Media Portrayals of Schoolgirls Heading for Syria
With so little to go on, the media are left to construct their own version of events, filling in the silence left by the girls with a cacophony of possible explanations.
Who Has a Right to Belong?
Whilst there might be international conventions which address the internally displaced, refugees, and the stateless the gap between theory and practice seems very large.
