Transatlantic Sovereignty Games: What Makes the US and the EU ‘Hang Together’?
Drawing on an analytical framework based on ‘sovereignty games’ this essay explores the roles of money in (re)constructing relations between the USA and the EU.
Border Thinking and the Experiential Epistemologies of International Relations
Borders cannot be understood separate from the bodies they affect and form. The geopolitics of knowledge cannot be separated from the experience of borders.
Interview – Walter D. Mignolo
Professor Walter D. Mignolo discusses the geo- and body-political dimensions of knowledge as the energy fuelling border thinking and decoloniality.
Edited Collection – Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics
This book offers an enriched vision of borders, both analytically and politically, that not only seeks to understand but also to reshape and expand the meanings and consequences of IR.
The Global Reconstitution of Borders: A Five-part Symposium
Borders both constitute and personify political communities, simultaneously symbolizing their cohesiveness and embodying their separateness from (and fear of) ‘others’.
The Doctor and the Cure: The Crisis of Sovereignty in the Twenty-first Century
Contemporary populists are looking backwards, hoping to fix our problems by drawing from a medical toolkit from a previous century.
Symposium – Does Brexit Herald a Re-assertion of the European Nation-state?
The nation-state is back. Yet, the apparent resurgence of European nation-states is about more than the practical failings of the EU or its perceived democratic deficit.
The Making of the Modern World
International politics, for good and for bad, was shaped by Europeans and by non-Europeans copying European examples.
Review – Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics
Focusing on tensions between economic transnationalization and the persistence of inter-state rivalry, Woodley poses challenging questions for all perspectives in IR.
Dressing the Sovereign: Fashion as a Symbolic Form of Sovereignty
Rather than a ‘mask’ for a decapitated sovereign, fashion diplomacy provides a sartorial symbolic form for this sovereignty, making it visible and appreciable.
