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Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19 (2023)
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Bruce, M., Gangoli, G., Mates, L., Millican, A. S., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. (2023). Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19. Student engagement in higher education journal, 5(1), 61-82

The rapid move to predominately online learning engendered by the COVID-19 crisis created an urgent need to rethink support mechanisms central to student engagement and transition, namely community-building and identity within the institution. One im... Read More about Peer-mentoring in a pandemic: an evaluation of a series of new departmental peer-mentor schemes created to support student belonging and transition during COVID-19.

The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices (2023)
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Schmidt, D. R., & Williams, J. (2023). The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices. International Studies Quarterly, 67(2), Article sqad021. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad021

This article integrates normative theoretical analysis into accounts of international order by connecting the study of international practice to debates about the nature and moral purpose of states’ social association. Bringing together insights from... Read More about The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices.

Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History (2022)
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Craig, D. (2022). Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History. Intellectual History Review, 33(1), 101-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2022.2148324

This essay argues that the “republicanism versus liberalism” debate that came to prominence in the 1980s – especially in the historiography of the birth of the United States – was largely an artificial construction made possible by the recent genealo... Read More about Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History.

Introduction: Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Reappearing Act (2022)
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Schuett, R. (2022). Introduction: Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Reappearing Act. Austrian Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.4048.vol51iss3

Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) ranks as one of the most important legal philosophers and liberal political theorists of the twentieth century. With his Pure Theory of Law, he set out to liberate legal and political discourse from anti-democratic baggage. So... Read More about Introduction: Professor Kelsen’s Amazing Reappearing Act.

On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline (2022)
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Hamilton, A. (2022). On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline. Topoi, 41(5), 979-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09844-8

Wittgenstein had little to say directly on philosophy of history. But some pertinent remarks in On Certainty have received little attention, apart from in Elizabeth Anscombe's short article on Hume and Julius Caesar. That article acknowledges its deb... Read More about On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline.

Worlding War as a Primary Institution of International Society (2022)
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Williams, J. (2023). Worlding War as a Primary Institution of International Society. Journal of International Political Theory, 19(1), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882221111195

Through interaction with decolonial IR this paper develops a research agenda extending recent English School (ES) work engaging a Global IR agenda. It argues recent developments in ES work that look to world history and which substantially improve ES... Read More about Worlding War as a Primary Institution of International Society.

German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law (2022)
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Schütze, R. (2023). German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law. Revue d'histoire du droit international, 25(1), 105-141. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-bja10078

What are the legal principles of German idealism in the long nineteenth century; and what conception(s) of international law do they offer? Opposing Kantian rationalism and its formalist law, two idealist reactions do emerge in the early decades of t... Read More about German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth Century Foundations of International Law.

The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses (2022)
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Sunderland, L. (2022). The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52(2), 253-284. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9687872

The description of living beings—the “ornements” of the earth in all their diversity—is a central task of Jean Corbechon's fourteenth‐century encyclopedia, the Livre des propriétés des choses, a translation into French of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's thi... Read More about The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses.

Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction (2022)
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Schütze, R. (2022). Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction. Global Policy, 13(Special Issue 2), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13063

From the start, Britain's feelings towards European integration were complex; and when Britain finally joined the ‘common market’ in 1973, its reasons were predominantly of an economic nature. Its profound doubts of any ‘federal’ or ‘political’ union... Read More about Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction.

The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin (2022)
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Dimova-Cookson, M. (2022). The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin. History of European Ideas, 48(3), 229-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056336

The paper challenges the general perception that the positive-negative freedom discourse privileges negative liberty. It demonstrates that Constant and Berlin’s dual freedom conceptual scheme contains the blueprint of a modern concept of positive fre... Read More about The Two Modern Liberties of Constant and Berlin.

Herbert Hensley Henson, J. N. Figgis and the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State, 1913–1916: Two Competing Visions of the Church of England (2022)
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Stapleton, J. (2022). Herbert Hensley Henson, J. N. Figgis and the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State, 1913–1916: Two Competing Visions of the Church of England. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73(4), 814-836. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046921001470

This article brings fresh perspective to the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State that sat from 1913 to 1916, emphasising the divisions in the Church that it both reflected and reinforced. The article focuses on the shadow that two competing le... Read More about Herbert Hensley Henson, J. N. Figgis and the Archbishops’ Committee on Church and State, 1913–1916: Two Competing Visions of the Church of England.