Modernity

Interview – Rahul Sagar

E-International Relations • Dec 28 2022 • Features

Rahul Sagar discusses global political positionalities in 19th century South Asia, and draws comparisons to the contemporary political order.

Adorno on Late Modernity and Unfreedom: Reflections in a Global Era

Silviya Lechner • Jul 16 2021 • Articles

Adorno further alerts us to the threat that Fascism might reappear in novel historical forms. If he is right, all contemporary societies in late modernity contain fascist elements in one form or another.

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.

Will Liberal Democracy Survive the Century?

David Moscrop • Dec 18 2017 • Articles

We have yet to settle whether the features of liberal democracy are inherent to the system itself, or to particular contexts in which the system is installed.

10th Anniversary Interview – Nicolas Onuf

E-International Relations • Dec 7 2017 • Features

To celebrate E-IR’s 10th anniversary we asked some of our existing interviewees two further questions reflecting on the last decade in International Relations.

Technological Ambivalence and International Relations

Stefan Fritsch • Feb 24 2016 • Articles

Technology is linked to many key phenomena of international relations. Yet it has only recently been effectively incorporated into the study of IR.

Looking Back to See Forward: Romanticism, Religion and the Secular in Modernity

Mark Cladis • Sep 21 2015 • Articles

The pervasive religious aspects of Romanticism demonstrate the failure of previous theories of secularisation. Modernity has never been a monolithic intellectual.

Review – Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

Federica Caso • Dec 19 2014 • Features

Despite minor methodological shortcomings Rahman’s book is an excellent and stimulating work for readers who focus on the role identity plays in politics.

Reassessing the Expansion of the International Society

Richard Little • May 2 2013 • Articles

To enter European international society, a ‘standard’ of civilization had to be met, despite the fact that European states could not meet every aspect of this standard, in the evolving international society.

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