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The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics (2014)
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Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics. Jewish journal of sociology, 56(1/2), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v56i1/2.87

This paper explores the relevance of the Jewish Question in the Twenty-First Century. The Jewish Question, what political space exists for the Jews in the modern world, was seemingly answered by two historic events in 1948. The first of these was the... Read More about The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics.

For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond) (2013)
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Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2015). For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond). Political Studies Review, 13(4), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12033

R.A.W. Rhodes is to be applauded for restating the case for life history methods within the field of political studies, and many of his arguments will be found unexceptionable by those actively working with such methods. Ironically, in his recent con... Read More about For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond).

The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries (2014)
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Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1), 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814541834

This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-ex... Read More about The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries.

Democracy and Regulating Autonomous Weapons: Biting the Bullet while Missing the Point? (2015)
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Williams, J. (2015). Democracy and Regulating Autonomous Weapons: Biting the Bullet while Missing the Point?. Global Policy, 6(3), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12203

Public policy debate around regulating emerging autonomous weapons systems is vital, but in danger of neglecting crucial challenges. Current analysis focuses around efforts to define autonomy and to incorporate ‘autonomous’ systems within established... Read More about Democracy and Regulating Autonomous Weapons: Biting the Bullet while Missing the Point?.

Distant Intimacy: Space, drones, and just war (2015)
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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.

T.E. Utley and Renewal of Conservatism in Post-War Britain (2014)
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Stapleton, J. (2014). T.E. Utley and Renewal of Conservatism in Post-War Britain. Journal of Political Ideologies, 19(2), 207-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2014.909265

This article examines the writings of T.E. Utley (1921–1988), a prominent contributor to the Conservative press in the post-war period. It does so in the context of Maurice Cowling's concept of ‘public doctrine.’ While attention is increasingly given... Read More about T.E. Utley and Renewal of Conservatism in Post-War Britain.

The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm (2014)
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Kahn, E. (2014). The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 31(3), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12057

This article identifies ‘the tragedy of the commons’ as an essentially aggregative harm and considers what agents in such a scenario owe to one another. It proposes that the duty to take reasonable precautions requires that agents make efforts to est... Read More about The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative Harm.

"Conservatism", entry on (2015)
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Hamilton, A. (2015). "Conservatism", entry on. Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy,

The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War (2013)
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Mates, L. (2013). The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War. Labor History, 54(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2012.759808

For the first two decades of the twentieth century, syndicalism (revolutionary trade unionism) was the most vigorous of the left's challenges to the capitalist order in many parts of the world. In Britain, syndicalism was reckoned to have had most im... Read More about The Limits and Potential of Syndicalist Influence in the Durham Coalfield before the Great War.

EU Development Policy: Constitutional and Legislative Foundation(s). (2013)
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Schütze, R. (2013). EU Development Policy: Constitutional and Legislative Foundation(s). The Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, 15, 699-718. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474200349.ch-024

The Union’s constitutional regime for development policy has traditionally progressed alongside two parallel tracks. In addition to a general regime for all developing countries, there exists a special regime for African, Caribbean and Pacific Countr... Read More about EU Development Policy: Constitutional and Legislative Foundation(s)..

Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom (2012)
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Dimova-Cookson, M. (2012). Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 18(2), 133-165

L.T.Hobhouse's concept of liberty--the concept at the heart of new liberalism--is based on T.H. Green's positive freedom. However, this paper demonstrates that the former has its own distinct nature and can be usefully defined as 'liberty as welfare'... Read More about Liberty as Welfare: the basecamp counterpart of positive freedom.

Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity (2014)
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Baron, I. Z. (2014). Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 13(2), 292-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2013.824231

This paper explores the relationship between identity and security through an investigation into Jewish diasporic identity. The paper argues that the convention of treating identity as an objective referent of security is problematic, as the Jewish d... Read More about Diasporic Security and Jewish Identity.

Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain (2012)
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Cohen, G., Mates, L., & Flinn, A. (2012). Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 43(2), 247-274. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00381

Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative exp... Read More about Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain.

Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism (2013)
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Black, L. (2014). Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism. History Workshop Journal, 77(1), 187-214. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbt014

For twenty-eight years from 1948 Swinton College was the Conservative Party’s activist training base in North Yorkshire. It was founded by Butler, hosted Heath’s policy ‘away days’ in the late 1960s, promoted the rise of neoliberal ideas and, notwith... Read More about Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism.

The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology (2011)
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Maffettone, P. (2011). The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology. Journal of International Political Theory, 7(2), 190-211. https://doi.org/10.3366/jipt.2011.0014

The essay provides a reconstruction of Rawls's The Law of Peoples that makes sense of three main discontinuities between Rawls's domestic theory of justice and his international outlook, namely the absence in the latter of: a) individualism, b) egali... Read More about The Law of Peoples: Beyond Incoherence and Apology.

Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse (2013)
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Dimova-Cookson, M. (2013). Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse. International Journal of Social Economics, 40(12), 1108-1122. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2013-0074

Purpose – The paper aims to examine and compare two understandings of liberty that have dealt successfully with the normative and analytical challenge of reconciling liberty with social justice: Philip Pettit's republican liberty as nondomination and... Read More about Can social justice, economic redistribution and voluntariness fit into a single conception of liberty? Pettit versus Hobhouse.