Inclusiveness, Pedagogy, Identity, Ideology, and the Epistemology of the Professor
Because of the (sometimes controversial) topics that I teach, it has relieved tensions for students to know who their professor is via a prepared statement.
Theatres of Difference: The Film ‘Hair’, Otherness, Alterity, Subjectivity and Lessons for Identity Politics
‘Hair’ is an historical document reminding us of divides long present in our society. We have learned a great deal in the decades since it was released.
Interview – David Runciman
David Runciman discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy, the link between conspiracy theories and technology and his views on identity politics.
Why (Clash of) Civilizations Discourses Just Won’t Go Away? Understanding the Civilizational Politics of Our Times
Identity politics has opened up the space for civilizations to reassert themselves as crucial discursive vectors of contemporary antagonisms.
Discourse, Power, and Subjectivity in Global Politics
IR often ignores the political forces that shape which discourse prevails. Discourse and emotional investments in “we-ness” shape foreign policy from BREXIT to the GWOT.
Introducing ‘Subaltern States’
This new blog focuses on less powerful or marginalized states, peoples, movements, or ideas within their domestic or regional contexts, or within the international system.
Russians in Ukraine: Before and after Euromaidan
The 2014 Euromaidan and the following conflict have reinforced negative attitudes to, and marginalisation of, Russians and the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
Lebanon’s Hizbullah
Ethnic motivations underlying Hizbullah’s politics acting upon the perceived interests of the Shiite community in Lebanon are likely to further erode its legitimacy.
Understanding the Other Ukraine: Identity and Allegiance in Russophone Ukraine
In the traditionally Russophone regions of Ukraine, political conflict arises whenever the legitimacy of Russian culture is challenged.
Review – U.S.-Iran Misperceptions: A Dialogue
Though Maleki and Tirman’s work describes the roots of US-Iran (mis)perception, their effort ultimately fails as a work of academic merit for exactly that reason.
