Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner speaks about understanding the work of Hobbes and Machiavelli, contextualism, political theory, global politics, and more.
Thinking Global Podcast – George Lawson (Part One)
George Lawson speaks about conceptualising revolution, comparative historical sociology, anatomies of revolution and more, in the first of a two-part series on Revolution.
Digital Decay and the Global Politics of Virtual Infrastructure
The inability to access information such as tweets may, perhaps, reflect an anti-democratisation of knowledge where previously the internet had opened it up to the masses.
Interview – Adam B. Lerner
Adam Lerner outlines the role of collective trauma in international politics and how to challenge some of the problematic assumptions of mainstream IR.
Levels of Analysis in International Relations
Levels of Analysis are the building blocks that are faced by all students and academics when they seek to build an analysis.
Interview – Mohammad Tarikul Islam
Tarik Islam discusses participatory rural development, the importance of citizen participation, localizing the SDGs in Bangladesh and the need for non-traditional methodologies.
Student Feature – Advice on Using Theory in Academic Work
Theory helps us get from research questions to research answers. It helps us make sense of questions by phrasing them appropriately and guides us to certain methods which match that pathway.
Opinion – Internal Simultaneity: A Science of Autobiography
Autobiography should be regarded as way of coming to know the world. We can explore our lives with the same care and wonder we bring to the study of the world at large.
Researching the Uncertain: Memory and Disappearance in Mexico
My project was framed by failure: it was impossible to conceptually and literally to understand the central issue of my project. Yet I tried to work within uncertainty.
Fieldwork, Failure, International Relations
This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications by evaluating Ph.D researchers experiences.
