The Rise of Paradiplomacy in International Relations
The rise of paradiplomatic activity, which has been recognized and normalized, should not be seen as a displacement of the state but as its complement within IR.
Student Feature – UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, an instrument of UNESCO, highlights the complexities and politics of cultural protections.
Student Feature – Spotlight on Kosovo’s “Special Court”
Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) is a new ‘hybrid’ court, but concerns over witnesses, security, and legitimacy persist.
Interview – Christian Davies
Journalist Christian Davies talks to us about the current situation in Poland, Poland and Hungary’s relations with the EU, and some of the challenges facing journalists.
Interview – Ruth Blakeley
Ruth Blakeley explains her research exposing the UK’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects, and discusses drones, human rights research and international law.
Looking Back at 2011
2011 is a moment in history which encapsulated the impulse for achieving democracy yet a review of subsequent events show democratisation is an extremely complex process.
Habitus: Why Positive Law Is Better than Originalism or Post-Modernism in Law
Positive law stands as a tradition that predates post-modernism and post-structuralism; and, yet, it persists as an important corrective to them in their extremes.
Courts: The Quagmire
The Bar Associations have substantively failed to regulate their own people, contributing to a decrease in public trust in the judicial system at large.
Review – Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers?
The authors tackle the ethical issues surrounding humanitarian intervention and the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention – from two competing standpoints.
Undoing Sovereignty/Identity, Queering the ‘International’: The Politics of Law
For the rights of human race in the field of IR, the ‘international’ needs to be deconstructed and reordered in a non-state centric and non-heteronormative manner.
