Young Western Women, Fandom, and ISIS

Brigitte L. Nacos • May 5 2015 • Articles

ISIS women act increasingly as internet recruiters and online jihadists as social media offer groups ample opportunities for the cultivation of para-social relationships.

On Captain America and ‘Doing’ Popular Culture in the Social Sciences

Jason Dittmer • May 5 2015 • Articles

Popular culture is a ‘doing’. This liveliness is what is lost when popular culture is reduced to a ‘thing’. It is the entire assemblage that produces political effects.

The State of the Vatican: Past Its Use-By Date?

John R Morss • May 2 2015 • Articles

The Papacy took a giant step forward with Pope Benedict’s resignation, setting the precedent for shorter terms in that role. The Pope is no longer a medieval monarch.

Popular Culture and Political Identity

Constance Duncombe and Roland Bleiker • May 2 2015 • Articles

Images and emotions are everywhere in politics, and yet they have only recently become a serious and systematic topic of investigation in academia.

The Fundamentalists Plurality Problem

Chris Crews • May 1 2015 • Articles

At the heart of our problems it is the fundamentalist imaginary, in both its economic and political forms, which has locked us into our present destructive cycles.

Security, Power, and Digital Privacy

Thomas N. Cooke • Apr 30 2015 • Articles

To approach the security, power and digital privacy triangulation through Dissent means that we, use ‘digital privacy’ as a starting point in the research triangulation.

The “Obama Doctrine”: Engaging Cuba but…

Alessandro Badella • Apr 30 2015 • Articles

Obama is writing history in US-Cuba relations. Yet, the duration and pace of the appeasement with Havana and its evolution is linked to Cuba’s internal political changes.

“Pax Russica” in the Balkans: Serbia Between Myth and Reality

Eduard Abrahamyan • Apr 30 2015 • Articles

The article critically examines the misconceptions and prejudices of Russia’s political elite and ideological thinkers regarding Serbia

So, How Does Popular Culture Relate to World Politics?

Jutta Weldes and Christina Rowley • Apr 29 2015 • Articles

Scholars from assorted perspectives are eagerly and productively investigating myriad forms of pop culture in relation to every conceivable aspect of world politics

Interview – Stephen McGlinchey

E-International Relations • Apr 29 2015 • Features

E-IR’s Editor-in-Chief gives an insiders perspective on the operations of the website, discusses the relevance of social media & blogging, and addresses the importance of open access.

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