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Small State Security Engagement in Post-Arab Spring MENA: The Case of the United Arab Emirates (2021)
Journal Article
Hedges, M. (2021). Small State Security Engagement in Post-Arab Spring MENA: The Case of the United Arab Emirates. Asian Affairs, 52(2), 412-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2021.1916248

This article analyses the UAE's security-led foreign policy engagement within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). I have interpreted the UAE's foreign policy strategy as one that employs Joel Migdal's State in Society model, whereby informal net... Read More about Small State Security Engagement in Post-Arab Spring MENA: The Case of the United Arab Emirates.

Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue (2021)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J., Kappler, S., Nag, E., & Opfermann, L. S. (2021). Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue. Global Policy, 12(S2), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12946

Drawing on empirically rich and theoretically grounded case studies, the articles in this issue explore ways in which global governmental processes affect mobility and, similarly, how seemingly local movements impact upon global processes.

Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Forde, S., Kappler, S., & Björkdahl, A. (2021). Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 15(3), 327-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1909297

Traditionally, peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships as well as more symbolic notions of community reconciliation and dialogue, resulting in limited attention to the material causes of violence. O... Read More about Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa.

The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries (2021)
Journal Article
Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2022). The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries. Political Analysis, 30(3), 381-402. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.10

To reduce strategic misreporting on sensitive topics, survey researchers increasingly use list experiments rather than direct questions. However, the complexity of list experiments may increase non-strategic misreporting. We provide the first empiric... Read More about The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries.

Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system (2021)
Journal Article
Mac Ginty, R. (2022). Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1889167

The notion of conflict disruption is proposed as an addition to the established conflict response framework of conflict management, resolution and transformation. Drawing on Schumpeter’s idea of creative disruption, the article considers how disrupti... Read More about Conflict disruption: Reassessing the peaceandconflict system.

The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Pickett, K., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2021). The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19. London: Northern Health Science Alliance and N8 Research Partnership

Children in the North are more likely to live in poverty than those in the rest of England – and increasingly so. Poverty is the lead driver of inequalities between children in the North and their counterparts in the rest of the country, leadin... Read More about The Child of the North: Building a fairer future after COVID-19.

Migration, Minorities, and Refugeehood in Cyprus (2021)
Book Chapter
Demetriou, O. (2021). Migration, Minorities, and Refugeehood in Cyprus. In A. Treiber, H. Alzheimer, S. Doering-Manteuffel, & D. Drascek (Eds.), Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie (91-120). Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657704750_007

This article uses displacement as an analytic lens for examining the Cypriot citizenship regime. It seeks to explain how the governance of migration, minorities, and the refugee existence stem from the politics of citizenship. The article first revie... Read More about Migration, Minorities, and Refugeehood in Cyprus.

Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism (2021)
Journal Article
Baron, I., & Press-Barnathan, G. (2021). Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism. International Political Sociology, 15(3), 338-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab007

The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied yet central component of everyday International Relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through ga... Read More about Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism.

English School – 'Chinese IR' engagements : order, harmony and the limits of elitism in Global IR (2021)
Journal Article
Williams, J. (2021). English School – 'Chinese IR' engagements : order, harmony and the limits of elitism in Global IR. The Chinese Journal Of International Politics, 14(1), 127-157. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaa022

This article addresses ongoing discussions across the English School (ES) of International Relations (IR) theory and IR theory drawing on Chinese philosophical traditions and Chinese history as exemplifying a “Global IR” approach. However, common int... Read More about English School – 'Chinese IR' engagements : order, harmony and the limits of elitism in Global IR.

The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Lall, R., & Robinson, T. (2022). The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning. Political Analysis, 30(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2020.49

Principled methods for analyzing missing values, based chiefly on multiple imputation, have become increasingly popular yet can struggle to handle the kinds of large and complex data that are also becoming common. We propose an accurate, fast, and sc... Read More about The MIDAS Touch: Accurate and Scalable Missing-Data Imputation with Deep Learning.

Introducing Political Philosophy (2021)
Book
Walton, A., Abel, W., Kahn, E., & Parr, T. (2021). Introducing Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press

Introducing Political Philosophy is a thought-provoking introduction that invites readers to consider and analyse the philosophical controversies that underpin several prominent areas of political debate. The opening chapter familiarises students wit... Read More about Introducing Political Philosophy.

Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting (2021)
Journal Article
Kuhn, P. M., Mellish, S., & Vivyan, N. (2021). Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting. Electoral Studies, 70, Article 102276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102276

Direct survey measures of turnout often suffer from misreporting, particularly among non-voters. We investigate whether turnout misreporting in online surveys can be reduced by two new turnout question designs aimed at strengthening or buffering resp... Read More about Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting.

The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept (2021)
Journal Article
Pogodda, S., Mac Ginty, R., & Richmond, O. (2021). The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept. Conflict, Security and Development, 21(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442

While often caused by conflict, crises are treated by the EU as a phenomenon of their own. Contemporary EU crisis management represents a watering down of normative EU approaches to peacebuilding, reduced to a technical exercise with the limited ambi... Read More about The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept.