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The Reversal of the Passfield White Paper, 1930-31: A Reassessment (2015)
Journal Article
Beckerman-Boys, C. (2016). The Reversal of the Passfield White Paper, 1930-31: A Reassessment. Journal of Contemporary History, 51(2), 213-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009414559614

British mandated Palestine has attracted scholarly attention for its role in the development of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Some aspects of the time period, however, remain somewhat overlooked, and one prominent example is the reversal of the P... Read More about The Reversal of the Passfield White Paper, 1930-31: A Reassessment.

Distant Intimacy: Space, drones, and just war (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, J. (2015). Distant Intimacy: Space, drones, and just war. Ethics & International Affairs, 29(1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0892679414000793

This article argues that the use of just war theory as the principal framework for ethical assessment of the use of drones for targeted killing is hampered by the absence of a spatial dimension. Drawing on critical political geography, the article de... Read More about Distant Intimacy: Space, drones, and just war.

Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech (2015)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R. (2015). Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42(4), 447-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2015.1005055

Since the 2011 uprising, Tunisia's Islamist movement Ennahdha has proposed a political project based on reclaiming the nation's Arab-Islamic identity. At the heart of this is the issue of ‘protection of the sacred’, which seeks to define limits to fr... Read More about Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech.

What do voters want from their local MP? (2015)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2015). What do voters want from their local MP?. The Political Quarterly, 86(1), 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12128

This article summarises the findings from a study of what constituents want from their local Member of Parliament.1 We make use of a survey technique known as conjoint analysis, wherein we present a national sample of British voters with profiles of... Read More about What do voters want from their local MP?.

Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples (2015)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2015). Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 41(6), 537-556. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453714567736

In this article I address two objections to Rawls’ account of international toleration. The first claims that the idea of a decent people does not cohere with Rawls’ understanding of reasonable pluralism and sanctions the oppressive use of state powe... Read More about Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples.

Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization (2015)
Journal Article
Hassell, H. J., & Visalvanich, N. (2015). Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization. Political Behavior, 39(4), 911-932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-014-9297-x

Previous work on the effects of race on the political behaviors of white Americans is beset with two problems. First, much of the work on the effect of race has looked primarily at attitudes as opposed to political action around a policy. Second, stu... Read More about Call to (In)Action: The Effects of Racial Priming on Grassroots Mobilization.