The European Left after Recession and Representation: Social Democracy or Bust?
The less austere management of European capitalism would amount to an attempt to revive the spirit of social democracy, despite it having been exposed as a dead end.
Statelessness: A Responsibility to Protect?
If pictures of migrants result only in plans to strengthen borders, invoking the legal obligations of an internationally accepted policy may be the best way forward.
The UK after the 2015 General Election: Doomed to Be a ‘Failed State’?
Brexit is not an inevitability. In the absence of charismatic pro-European voices, the pro-EU camp will struggle to make its voice heard against eurosceptic voices.
Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics
Pop Culture stages debates on complex topics associated with the history of imperialism, geopolitical thinking and the relationship between territory, space and power.
Cyber Weapons as a Game Changer: A Critical Reflection
Claims that cyber weapons are a game changer are often based on a misunderstanding and overestimation of cyber weapons’ capabilities and effects.
What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?
Music and music-making can enhance a body of work that looks to de-reify received analytical categories of the discipline and thereby continue to enrich its key debates.
The Search for Water Wars: Looking beyond the State
The reallocation of water regularly leads to a redistribution of the benefits that it provides, provoking community action. It is here we find our debated water wars.
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.
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.
