Author profile: Giorgio Shani

Giorgio Shani is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at International Christian University (ICU), Japan and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2022 to 2023. Chair of RC43 Religion and Politics of IPSA, he is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge, 2008) and co-author of Sikh Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He can be followed on X @GiorgioShani.

The Sikh Diaspora: In the Shadow of Khalistan

Giorgio Shani • Sep 27 2023 • Articles

Sikhs have become a ‘model minority’ in various states, but a long shadow is cast as the international order primarily recognises nations which can claim statehood.

Opinion – Japan’s 3/11: Ten Years On

Giorgio Shani • Mar 12 2021 • Articles

Aside from the insecurity and panic caused by the nuclear crisis with its concomitant effects on an economy still reeling from two decades of stagnant growth, life has returned to normal for most.

Securitizing ‘Bare Life’? Human Security and Coronavirus

Giorgio Shani • Apr 3 2020 • Articles

Those who stay home may represent a new global ethic borne out of solidarity based on a mutual vulnerability in the face of existential threat: human security without a sovereign.

La Haine: Laïcité, Charlie Hebdo and the Republican War on Religion

Giorgio Shani • Jan 29 2015 • Articles

The Republican war against religion has played its part in creating the conditions whereby the message of the jihadis now has resonance amongst the alienated youth.

Human Security at Twenty: Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission?

Giorgio Shani • Jun 19 2014 • Articles

The problem for human security is that it continues to be articulated in terms unintelligible to the majority of the subjects in whose name it speaks: humanity.

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