The European Union’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
The lack of a common stance towards the crisis by Member States and the complexity of EU policy-making diminishes the value of the EU as a trustworthy regional and global player.
New Book – Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States
This edited volume explores whether and to what extent the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean have sought to integrate refugees of the Syrian conflict into their national societies.
Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States
The refugee crisis continues to have a large impact on European societies and has sparked rises in exclusionary populism, right-wing nationalism, and national security concerns.
Interview – Andrew Halterman
Andrew Halterman discusses how natural language processing can be used as a tool to transform the study of IR, and the role of machine learning in political science.
Challenging Information Control with Communication Technologies in Syria
The application of communication technologies enables Syrian citizen journalists to provide valuable coverage of the conflict’s ongoing atrocities.
Urbicide and the Subject of Politics: Notes on the Syrian Civil War
Spatial justice should entail a reconstruction model that restores the relationship of inhabitants to places so that return does not become alienation.
The Limitations and Consequences of Remote Warfare in Syria
The Syrian conflict is an example of global and regional powers waging remote warfare against their adversaries with minimum human and capital costs.
Interview – H. Akin Ünver
Akin Ünver discusses computational social science (CSS) and IR, his research using CSS on the Syrian Civil War, and the use of the Internet by authoritarian leaders.
