borders

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis: Forced Displacement on the ‘Mind-map’ of Antagonistic Security

Laura Zuber • Apr 7 2025 • Articles

Scholarship engaging the raciality of capitalism, and feminist approaches, are well-equipped to understand antagonistic notions and practices of security.

Review – How Migration Really Works

Alice Fill • Sep 15 2024 • Features

De Haas robustly deconstructs migration myths, challenges preconceptions and provokes reflection, but alternatives to a solutionist policy perspective remain understated.

Sexuality and Borders

Rosie Walters • Nov 28 2023 • Student Features

The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.

Thinking Global Podcast – Wendy Brown

E-International Relations • May 5 2023 • Features

Wendy Brown talks about their new book ‘Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber’, Nihilism as political condition, Walling, Resisting Left Melancholy and Neoliberalism.

Interview – Bryan Caplan

E-International Relations • Oct 8 2022 • Features

Bryan Caplan talks about terrorists as rational actors and government responses to terrorism, plus the benefits and challenges of an open borders policy.

Interview – Till Mostowlansky

E-International Relations • Dec 6 2020 • Features

Anthropologist Till Mostowlansky talks to us about his work in the borderlands of Central Asia and how globalisation, borders, and infrastructure impact peoples’ lives.

Call for Contributors – Asian Territorial and Maritime Disputes: A Critical Introduction

E-International Relations • Jul 10 2020 • Features

This book will explain the origins of the territorial and maritime disputes in Asia in an accessible way. We are accepting abstracts until 30 September.

Reversal of (Im)mobility Privilege and Borders During COVID-19

Houssem Ben Lazreg and Wael Garnaoui • May 18 2020 • Articles

In many people’s minds, closing borders means repelling migrants. But, Covid-19 has ridiculed this assumption as borders are not vanishing but rather metamorphosing.

Decolonizing Borders

Liam Midzain-Gobin • Jan 12 2019 • Articles

Borders are effective at constructing an ‘us’ on the inside, which is bound together through a collective narrative to the exclusion of ‘them’ outside.

Interview – Emma Mc Cluskey

E-International Relations • Oct 4 2018 • Features

Emma Mc Cluskey talks about her forthcoming book Righteousness to Far Right, anthropological approaches to International Political Sociology and radical reflexivity.