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The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’ (2015)
Journal Article
Richmond, O., Kappler, S., & Björkdahl, A. (2015). The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 44(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829815594871

This article highlights the semantic and socio-political meaning of the ‘field’ as it is used in both academic research and policy practices: as a geographic and material space related to forms of intervention in International Relations (IR), and not... Read More about The ‘Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority Versus the ‘Local’.

Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach (2015)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2016). Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach. Economics and Philosophy, 32(01), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266267115000267

G.A. Cohen has criticized the capability approach for focusing on individuals’ freedom – their capability to control their lives – and ignoring benefits achieved passively. He argues that this view of well-being is excessively ‘athletic’. However, if... Read More about Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach.

The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (2015)
Journal Article
Stirk, P. (2015). The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Comparative Legal History, 3(1), 60-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2015.1041726

This article accounts for the existence of a clear concept of military occupation, albeit inconsistently used, in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It sets out the factors favouring such clarity and those militating against it.... Read More about The Concept of Military Occupation in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity (2015)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2015). The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity. Third World Quarterly, 36(5), 875-889. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1025740

This article challenges the notion of the ‘local’ as a static identity or set position and argues for a processual understanding of localisation, in which constant processes of delocalisation and (re-)localisation serve as tools by which peacebuildin... Read More about The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity.

Regionalization, Pan-Asian Relations, and the Middle East (2015)
Journal Article
Ehteshami, A. (2015). Regionalization, Pan-Asian Relations, and the Middle East. East Asia, 32(3), 223-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-015-9233-7

Research on the emerging links between the Middle East (West Asia) and other parts of Asia has grown considerably since late twentieth century. Indeed, the contributions to this special edition of the journal reflect some of the pioneering work takin... Read More about Regionalization, Pan-Asian Relations, and the Middle East.