All Outputs (3)

Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article
Delatolla, A., & Yao, J. (2019). Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century. International Studies Review, 21(4), 640-661. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy060

In recent decades, international events and incisive critical voices have catapulted the concepts of race and religion to the foreground of International Relations research. In particular, scholars have sought to recover the racialized and imperial b... Read More about Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century.

International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society (2018)
Book Chapter
Wilson, P., & Yao, J. (2018). International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society. In T. B. Knudsen, & C. Navari (Eds.), International organization in the anarchical society : the institutional structure of world order (127-148). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71622-0_6

This chapter explores international sanctions as a practice for states to collectively punish the violation of important international norms through the institutionalized authority of international organizations. More than instrumental foreign policy... Read More about International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society.

'Conquest from barbarism': The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization (2018)
Journal Article
Yao, J. (2019). 'Conquest from barbarism': The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization. European Journal of International Relations, 25(2), 335-359. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066118768379

In recent years, International Relations scholarship has looked back to the 19th century as a watershed epoch for the formation of the current international order and the development of ‘Standards of Civilization’ to legitimate that order. However, l... Read More about 'Conquest from barbarism': The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization.