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Europe, China and security governance: is there evidence of normative convergence? (2014)
Journal Article
Kerr, D., & Xu, Y. (2014). Europe, China and security governance: is there evidence of normative convergence?. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 12(1), 79-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-014-0371-0

Normative power can be defined as the ability to govern interdependencies by means of rules, regimes and compliance strategies. This paper presents two case studies in security governance—international responsibility to protect in Sudan and counter-p... Read More about Europe, China and security governance: is there evidence of normative convergence?.

Iranian and Arab in the Gulf : endangered language, windtowers, and fish sauce (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Limbert, J. W. (2014). Iranian and Arab in the Gulf : endangered language, windtowers, and fish sauce

That Iranian-Arab aversion that Luce encountered in the course of his shuttle diplomacy is real. But it is only part of the truth. What we are dealing with is a mixture of fact, distortion, stereotype, and myth. In a reasonable world, the realities o... Read More about Iranian and Arab in the Gulf : endangered language, windtowers, and fish sauce.

Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa (2014)
Book
Kappler, S. (2014). Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137307194

While agency has become the new buzzword for researchers in the area of peace and conflict studies, it remains a concept that is both under-theorised and contested in terms of how it transforms the disciplines of Politics, International Relations and... Read More about Local Agency and Peacebuilding. EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa.

“Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture” (2014)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (2014). “Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture”. In T. Brooks (Ed.), Ethical citizenship : British idealism and the politics of recognition (200-223). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329967_11

There are significant similarities between Bosanquet’s ethical function of the state and Miller’s defence of nations as communities that generate duties. Bosanquet’s references to the state are predominantly to the nation state (1917a: p. 295), and M... Read More about “Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics in Bosanquet’s General Will and Miller’s Public Culture”.

Somalia works: Police development as state-building (2014)
Journal Article
Hills, A. (2014). Somalia works: Police development as state-building. African Affairs, 113(450), 88-107. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt068

Somalia is an exceptionally insecure state that nevertheless offers an arena in which police officers and institutions can – and do – function. This article argues that Somalia's three regional police forces offer insight into the dynamics that resul... Read More about Somalia works: Police development as state-building.

The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics (2014)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics. Jewish journal of sociology, 56(1/2), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v56i1/2.87

This paper explores the relevance of the Jewish Question in the Twenty-First Century. The Jewish Question, what political space exists for the Jews in the modern world, was seemingly answered by two historic events in 1948. The first of these was the... Read More about The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics.