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The grey areas of political illegitimacy (2022)
Journal Article
Abou Jaoude, T. (2022). The grey areas of political illegitimacy. Third World Quarterly, 43(10), 2413-2429. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2094235

This article looks at the conceptual characteristics of illegitimacy with the aim to understand the nuanced nature of its consequences. With legitimacy at the heart of state-building, its absence (or loss) is likely to lead to a collapse of public in... Read More about The grey areas of political illegitimacy.

Social and historical dimensions of wildfire research and the consideration given to practical knowledge: a systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Sousa, J., Çinar, C., Carmo, M., & Malagoli, M. A. (2022). Social and historical dimensions of wildfire research and the consideration given to practical knowledge: a systematic review. Natural Hazards, 114(2), 1103-1123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05460-2

Existing knowledge about fires has been challenged by changes in forests and wildfire regimes. We carried out a systematic literature review involving both a global and a case study approach (Portugal) to investigate the configuration of the social d... Read More about Social and historical dimensions of wildfire research and the consideration given to practical knowledge: a systematic review.

Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non‐victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
Sagherian‐Dickey, T., Schaafsma, J., Zoodsma, M., Cho, H. J., Dinnick, I., Kim, J., …Yáñez de la Cruz, M. S. (2023). Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non‐victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 414-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12556

Political apologies have been theorized to play an important role in healing and reconciliation processes in post-conflict settings. Whether they actually fulfil this function, however, remains unclear as the voices and perspectives of victim communi... Read More about Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non‐victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom.

Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma (2022)
Journal Article
Sadiq, I., Baser, B., & McLoughlin, S. (2022). Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma. Review of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2023.3

Since the end of World War I, the people of the Middle East have lived – from Turkey to Iraq – in a world created by Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau. From the outset, the victorious powers of the War, especially Wilson, pai... Read More about Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma.

Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’ (2022)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2022). Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’. Citizenship Studies, 26(4-5), 505-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091232

The acts of citizenship framework emerged as an important innovation to the previous status- and practice-focused understanding of citizenship with a landmark edited volume Acts of Citizenship (2008). While the theorisation of citizenship through act... Read More about Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’.

Does Space Law Prevent Patterns of Antarctic Imperialism in Outer Space? (2022)
Journal Article
Padden, H. (2022). Does Space Law Prevent Patterns of Antarctic Imperialism in Outer Space?. Global Policy, 13(3), 346-357. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13104

This article will consider the ways states have exercised imperialism over Antarctica, focusing on two methods: the use of administrative acts and control over scientific research and resources. The article will then compare the Outer Space Treaty an... Read More about Does Space Law Prevent Patterns of Antarctic Imperialism in Outer Space?.

Ethics, Force, and Power: on the Political Preconditions of Just War (2022)
Journal Article
Finlay, C. J. (2022). Ethics, Force, and Power: on the Political Preconditions of Just War. Law and Philosophy, 41(6), 717-740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-022-09452-y

Benbaji and Statman’s contractarian ethics of war offers a powerful new philosophical defence of orthodox conclusions against revisionist criticism. I present a two-pronged argument in reply. First, contractarianism yields what I call ‘decent war the... Read More about Ethics, Force, and Power: on the Political Preconditions of Just War.

Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, M. C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S. F., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A. B., Boese, V. A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 501-520. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.11

This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it outlines an episode approach that identifies the discrete beginning of a period of political liberali... Read More about Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization.

Learning from Foes: How Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State's Use of Emerging Technologies (2022)
Report
Archambault, E., Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Daymon, C. (2022). Learning from Foes: How Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State's Use of Emerging Technologies. London: Global Network on Extremism and Technology

This report concerns itself with terrorist technical innovation, particularly with regards to terrorists’ incorporation of emerging technologies into their practices. More specifically, it investigates, through the elaboration of a theoretical learni... Read More about Learning from Foes: How Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State's Use of Emerging Technologies.

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity-led Development: Reflections from Argentina (2022)
Journal Article
Giraudo, M. E., & Grugel, J. (2022). Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity-led Development: Reflections from Argentina. Development and Change, 53(4), 796-826. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12714

Many developing countries continue to follow export-oriented growth strategies based on primary commodities, in spite of the many limitations of such policies. The persistence of this model is inherently related to the dominance of ‘commodity imagina... Read More about Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity-led Development: Reflections from Argentina.

The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South. The Development, Gender and Health Nexus (2022)
Book
Grugel, J., Barlow, M., Lines, T., Giraudo, M. E., & Jessica, O. (2022). The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South. The Development, Gender and Health Nexus. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press

In this important book, experts assess what the COVID-19 pandemic means for gender inequalities in the global south, examining how threats to equitable development will impact the most marginalised and at-risk women and girls in particular.

Should Socialists be Republicans? (2022)
Journal Article
Kandiyali, J. (2022). Should Socialists be Republicans?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2070834

This paper presents a critique of left republican writings from a non-republican socialist standpoint. It examines three claims that have been advanced by left republican authors: that workers are dominated 1) by their lack of access to the means of... Read More about Should Socialists be Republicans?.

The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond (2022)
Journal Article
Öztürk, A. E., & Baser, B. (2022). The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond. Turkish Studies, 23(5), 701-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2068414

The article builds on current academic debates pertaining to the use of religion in global politics. By examining how and why religion is used as a tool for foreign policy aims as well as for perpetuating a state’s identity and institutional capacity... Read More about The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond.

How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie” (2022)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. (2022). How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie”. Digest of Middle East Studies, 31(2), 96-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12262

This paper provides an innovative approach to visual analysis in the Middle East. It addresses a fundamental problem in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Securitization Theory (ST): they largely ignore the visual. This project devel... Read More about How to analyze visual propaganda in the Middle East: An analysis of imagery in the “Saudi Strike Force Movie”.

Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction (2022)
Journal Article
Schütze, R. (2022). Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction. Global Policy, 13(Special Issue 2), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13063

From the start, Britain's feelings towards European integration were complex; and when Britain finally joined the ‘common market’ in 1973, its reasons were predominantly of an economic nature. Its profound doubts of any ‘federal’ or ‘political’ union... Read More about Britain in the European Union: A Very Short Introduction.

Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959 (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, C. (2022). Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959. Middle Eastern Studies, 58(3), 402-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2022.2047656

Recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have reawakened interest as well as controversies over how Western militaries tried to engage, with varying degrees of success, with the ‘Human Terrain’. These debates are far from new. This article explores t... Read More about Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959.

Archiving as embodied research and security practice (2022)
Journal Article
Chukwuma, K. H. (2022). Archiving as embodied research and security practice. Security Dialogue, 53(5), 438–455. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106221075954

This article explores the importance of embodiment in (research on) archival practices on state counter-terrorism policy in Nigeria. In doing so, the article seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion around methodology and methods in critical sec... Read More about Archiving as embodied research and security practice.