Different Type of Refugee: Onward Journeys of Gulf-Born Migrants from Politically Volatile Countries
Academic inquiry should go beyond categorisation to understand what pushes migrants to seek alternative permanencies elsewhere, and under what conditions.
Reflections on Afghanistan: War is Folly for the Weak on Wisdom and Will
Afghanistan is not the graveyard of empires, it is the graveyard of strategy.
A Constructivist Approach to Maritime Spaces
Maritime spaces are political zones. In these spaces, agents manifest their interests and pursue their strategies based on the distribution of material and ideational resources.
Anarchy and Occupation: The US in the Mexican-American War and in Afghanistan
The lack of domination structures through which imperial or state power can be exerted strains, and renders futile, the capabilities of the occupying force.
Who Are the Taliban?
We still do not know exactly how the Taliban will rule Afghanistan. Yet, experience suggests that many Afghans have much to fear – especially women and the Shi’a.
Thucydides in Afghanistan: Imperial Abstraction, Moral Displacement, and Hubris
Astonishment at the fall of Kabul reflect habits of imperial abstraction, moral displacement and hubris that are prefigured in Thucydides writings about ancient Greece.
Creating Legitimacy in a Pluralist World Order
A pluralist vision of creative legitimation sets a large and ambitious theoretical agenda for a post-Westphalian global order that has been gestating for a century or more.
Opinion – Reconsidering India’s ‘Population Policy’ through a Regional Perspective
Considering the cases two Indian states, it is evident that the population policies in both are driven by ‘demographic fears’ stemming from Islamophobia.
Afghanistan’s ‘Liberal’ History: Back to Year Zero?
An earlier, more liberal, Afghanistan possessed strong female figures and dynamic student societies in a civil society accustomed to the concept of protest.
The Herero and Nama Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Question of German Reparations
Legacies of dispossession and murder in relation to diasporic and continental Africans, their histories, and their lifeworlds have been demoted by the German state.
