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Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East (2017)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2017). Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. Democratization, 7(2), 1289-1306. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1307824

On 25 December 2013, the military-backed government in Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. A few months later, the Saudi Kingdom followed suit and attempted to build a regional coalition to counter this constructed e... Read More about Creating the Enemy, Constructing the Threat: The Diffusion of Repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.

The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East (2017)
Journal Article
Darwich, M. (2018). The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East. Mediterranean Politics, 23(3), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2017.1305509

The hope and disappointment that accompanied the 2011 Arab uprisings have demonstrated the centrality of international factors in affecting regime change and shaping transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. Although the impact of internationa... Read More about The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East.

Europe's Mea Culpa: A Global Economy Gone Mad or a Crisis of our own Making? (2017)
Journal Article
Raviv, O. (2017). Europe's Mea Culpa: A Global Economy Gone Mad or a Crisis of our own Making?. Global Policy, 8(2), 159-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12410

Much of the existing literature on the current financialized era of capitalism is guilty of essentializing the US experience. The methodological implication of this conceptual starting point has been that financialization in Europe was, and still is,... Read More about Europe's Mea Culpa: A Global Economy Gone Mad or a Crisis of our own Making?.

Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany (2017)
Journal Article
Rudolph, L., & Kuhn, P. M. (2018). Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany. German Politics, 27(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2017.1287900

How do natural disasters affect electoral participation? The existing social science literature offers contradictory predictions. A considerable body of research in sociology and psychology suggests that traumatic events can inspire pro-social behavi... Read More about Natural Disasters and Political Participation: Evidence from the 2002 and 2013 Floods in Germany.

Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values (2017)
Journal Article
Held, D., & Maffettone, P. (2017). Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values. Global Policy, 8(56), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12412

In the past four decades topics related to the moral evaluation of global politics have occupied a central part of the philosophical debate. The first three sections of this essay provide a reconstruction of the defining features of the globalization... Read More about Moral Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Values.

The Middle East in the international system: improving, understanding and breaking down the international relations/area studies divide (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fawcett, L. (2017). The Middle East in the international system: improving, understanding and breaking down the international relations/area studies divide

The year 2016 is a particularly timely one for a re-launch of the Institute for Middle East and Islamic Studies at Durham University. Events in the Middle East and North Africa continue to present huge challenges for regional and international order... Read More about The Middle East in the international system: improving, understanding and breaking down the international relations/area studies divide.

Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime? (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, C. A., & Guzansky, Y. (2017). Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime?. Contemporary Security Policy, 38(3), 398-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2017.1292375

By drawing on the literature about security regimes, this article posits the idea that a particular type of regime, which can be termed a “tacit security regime” (TSR), has begun to emerge between Israel, on the one hand, and several Gulf Arab states... Read More about Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime?.

The concept of violence in international theory: a Double-Intent Account (2017)
Journal Article
Finlay, C. J. (2017). The concept of violence in international theory: a Double-Intent Account. International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy, 9(01), 67-100. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1752971916000245

The ability of international ethics and political theory to establish a genuinely critical standpoint from which to evaluate uses of armed force has been challenged by various lines of argument. On one, theorists question the narrow conception of vio... Read More about The concept of violence in international theory: a Double-Intent Account.

Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections? (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2018). Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?. Res Publica, 24(2), 237-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-016-9349-7

The main aim of this paper is to act as a corrective to the comparatively deafening silence of egalitarian political philosophy’s response to the Great Recession. The paper thus provides an accessible analysis of a new strand of empirical research in... Read More about Egalitarianism and the Great Recession: A Tale of Missed Connections?.

Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control (2017)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2017). Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control. Social Theory and Practice, 43(1), 154-179. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20174317

The capability approach aims to ensure that all individuals are able to form and pursue their own conception of the good, whilst the state remains neutral between them, and has done much to include oppressed and marginalized groups. Liberal neutralit... Read More about Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control.

Marginalisation, Young People in the South and East Mediterranean and Policy (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Calder, M., MacDonald, R., Mikhael, D., Murphy, E. C., & Phoenix, J. (in press). Marginalisation, Young People in the South and East Mediterranean and Policy

This document is the report for Work Package 7 (WP7) of the EU-funded project Power2Youth (P2Y). WP7 provides an overview of the key policy messages for the EU that arise from the research conducted as part of Work Packages 1–6. These key messages ar... Read More about Marginalisation, Young People in the South and East Mediterranean and Policy.

Rectification of Racial Discrimination during WWII: the Case of Restitution Laws in Serbia (2017)
Journal Article
Davidovic, M. (2017). Rectification of Racial Discrimination during WWII: the Case of Restitution Laws in Serbia. Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 4(1), 105-118

Restitution for the mostly Jewish property and assets that were confiscated by the Nazis during World War II (WWII) in various European states has been a highly debated issue ever since the end of the war. Countries that adhered to the ideas of commu... Read More about Rectification of Racial Discrimination during WWII: the Case of Restitution Laws in Serbia.

Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration (2017)
Journal Article
Maffettone, P. (2017). Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration. Etica & politica, XIX(I), 353-376

This paper examines Rawls’ duty of assistance (DOA). It argues that some of the major criticisms that have been levelled against the DOA are based on a mischaracterisation of Rawls’ position in ‘LP’. The paper also argues that what many of Rawls’ cri... Read More about Rawls’ Duty of Assistance: A Defence and Re-Elaboration.

Fighting Global Inequality with Chinese Characteristics: The Role of the Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) (2017)
Journal Article
Cheung, G. C. (2017). Fighting Global Inequality with Chinese Characteristics: The Role of the Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). China's world, 2(1), 39-51

Global inequality is growing and the issue of tax havens for the super-rich has come to the fore, not least in China. This can be seen as a failure of globalisation. China could play a major role in reducing inequality and at the same time improving... Read More about Fighting Global Inequality with Chinese Characteristics: The Role of the Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs).