The European Left after Recession and Representation: Social Democracy or Bust?

David Bailey • Jun 14 2015 • Articles

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?

Alanna O'Malley • Jun 14 2015 • Articles

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’?

Christian Schweiger • Jun 11 2015 • Articles

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

Robert A. Saunders • Jun 11 2015 • Articles

Pop Culture stages debates on complex topics associated with the history of imperialism, geopolitical thinking and the relationship between territory, space and power.

Interview – Jonathan Holslag

E-International Relations • Jun 10 2015 • Features

Dr. Holslag discusses how the rise of China is changing world order, considers the security dilemmas this is creating in Asia, and reflects on realist approaches to IR.

What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?

Matt Davies and Marianna I. Franklin • Jun 9 2015 • Articles

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

Ed Atkins • Jun 8 2015 • Articles

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

Saara Särmä • Jun 6 2015 • Articles

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

Srinjoy Bose and Firouzeh Khoshnoudiparast • Jun 6 2015 • Articles

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

Natalie Florea Hudson • Jun 4 2015 • Articles

Creative energy and renewed multilateralism is needed to challenge the ideological imperialism that dominates our thinking, research and action around peace and security.

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