United Moderate Religion vs. Secular and Religious Extremes?
One can avoid the pitfalls of religion by acknowledging its importance at the macro-level for the greater good of national unity across a plural U.S. social fabric.
The War in Ukraine: A Process Sociological Perspective on How We Got Here
The war in Ukraine was ultimately the decision of Putin, but it has also been a decision embedded in an environment profoundly shaped by functional democratisation processes.
Shared Anxieties and Transnational Migration: Moralised Tensions in Liberal-Democratic Societies
Understanding the securing and insecuring processes that situate relations between established and outsider groups in contemporary societies connects with the work of securitisation researchers.
Animal Suffering and the Civilizing Process
Norbert Elias’s theory of the Civilizing Process provides an innovative account of how and why people’s attitudes to non-human animals have evolved over the centuries.
Process Sociology and the Global Ecological Crisis
In light of the global ecological crisis, Process Sociology offers a framework encompassing the role of human/non-human nature relations in world politics.
Violence in the West African Sahel is not about Terrorism
There is a crisis in the Sahel, but one that is not readily apparent when viewed through the traditional lenses of international relations and geopolitics.
Darkening Waters, Gathering Storm: Sino-Indian Water War on the Brahmaputra River
It is crucial that policymakers in both New Delhi and Beijing recognize the gravity of the situation and take steps to defuse tensions before it is too late.
An Ecological State of Exception: Applying Carl Schmitt to Climate Change
The path towards an ecological civilization remains unclear. Some governments may rely on trust, but for others control will be preferable.
Disaster Politics: Surviving End Times
If we are to survive our disastrous times we require a new revolutionary form of politics and a a massive expansion of the democratic imagination.
Whatever Happened to the Frankfurt School in International Relations?
What lies behind the Frankfurt School’s decline in IR theory and what does it say about broader changes in the discipline today?
