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Poland, variable geometry and the enlarged European Union (2013)
Journal Article
Schweiger, C. (2014). Poland, variable geometry and the enlarged European Union. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(3), 394-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.869898

This article examines the role of Poland in the European Union, where the traditional Franco-German leadership axis has been replaced by a new ‘variable geometry’ of leadership constellations across a variety of policy areas. In this setting Poland h... Read More about Poland, variable geometry and the enlarged European Union.

'Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia'. By Thomas J. Christensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 318p. $75.00 cloth, $28.95 paper. 'China's Search for Security'. By Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 432p. $32.95. (2013)
Journal Article
Kerr, D. (in press). 'Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia'. By Thomas J. Christensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 318p. $75.00 cloth, $28.95 paper. 'China's Search for Security'. By Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 432p. $32.95. Perspectives on Politics, 11(4), 1235-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592713002740

Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution (2013)
Book
Gunning, J., & Baron, I. Z. (2013). Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution. Hurst & Company

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of... Read More about Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution.

Hyperdemocracy (2013)
Book
Welch, S. (2013). Hyperdemocracy. Palgrave Macmillan

Pakistan: Security Perspectives on Afghanistan. (2013)
Book Chapter
Gregory, S. (2013). Pakistan: Security Perspectives on Afghanistan. In A. Snetkov, & S. Aris (Eds.), The Regional Dimensions to Security: Other Sides of Afghanistan (61-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330055_4

It is doubtful that many in the West paid much attention to the reinterring of the body of the Afghan poet Ustad Khalilullah Khalili on 30 May 2012, in a quiet corner of the Kabul University campus.2 His body had been moved, at the request of Afghan... Read More about Pakistan: Security Perspectives on Afghanistan..

For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond) (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2015). For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond). Political Studies Review, 13(4), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12033

R.A.W. Rhodes is to be applauded for restating the case for life history methods within the field of political studies, and many of his arguments will be found unexceptionable by those actively working with such methods. Ironically, in his recent con... Read More about For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond).

Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse (2013)
Journal Article
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2013). Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse. International Journal of Social Economics, 40(12), 1108-1122. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2013-0074

Purpose – The paper aims to examine and compare two understandings of liberty that have dealt successfully with the normative and analytical challenge of reconciling liberty with social justice: Philip Pettit's republican liberty as nondomination and... Read More about Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse.

Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2013). Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. Peacebuilding, 1(3), 349-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2013.813177

With specific reference to Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa, this article looks at how peacebuilding actors constantly recreate public space and the discourses within it. The formation of imagined political communities reflects the extent to which... Read More about Peacebuilding and lines of friction between imagined communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa.