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Open AccessFantasies of cultural sovereignty and national unity: Russia?s ontological (in)security and its assertion of ?spiritual-moral values??
Drawing on ontological security studies and Lacanian theory, the article examines the role of ?spiritual-moral values? (SMV) in Russian politics. It argues that SMV have been employed by the Russian political ...
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Open AccessThe far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present
This short article seeks to extend Richard Saull’s analysis of the relationship between capitalism and the far right in his “Capital, Race and Space”, focusing specifically on the Global South and its unique c...
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Open AccessIntroduction: explaining the far-right over the longue durée through capital, race and space
In this forum introduction I outline the core argument of my book, Capital, Race, and Space (CRS) and its main empirical substance, and then I address how and why I came to write it and how the argument is import...
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Open AccessLiving in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right
This essay suggests stretching Saull's structuralist account of the relationship between neoliberal globalisation and the far-right to accommodate subaltern agency and resistance. Taking this step makes transp...
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Open AccessQatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power
Structurally, Qatar and Türkiye face different International Relations challenges—Turkey is a regional middle power with significant hard power resources, while Qatar is an ambitious small state with relativel...
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Open AccessIntroduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation
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Open AccessA postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?
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Open AccessConsidering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)
Complicating linear narratives of liberation, the Gaza Strip under Hamas rule, Somdeep Sen argues in Decolonizing Palestine, constitutes a microcosm of the Palestinian ‘long moment of liberation’ with Hamas as...
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Open AccessGermany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to deliver gas from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany, and on to other parts of Europe, was a subject of unrelenting contestation. It impelled the convergence and inte...
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Open AccessGrand strategy and the construction of the national interest: the underpinnings of Sino-US strategic competition
The ubiquity of Sino-US strategic competition calls for uncovering its underpinnings by systematically comparing their grand strategies. This article examines how both governments have constructed their countr...
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Open AccessTerrorism Studies beyond counter-counterterrorism: opening the door to Jenseits
This paper offers some lines of flight away from stagnant features of Terrorism Studies. I largely reiterate the critiques made by field leaders like Lee Jarvis, but I frame the field in a way that eases the t...
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Open AccessResisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights
In climate politics, understanding and contesting the meaning of vulnerability has proved extremely difficult. On the one hand, it is an increasingly formalised term that means something very specific scientif...
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Open AccessThe politics of descriptive inference: contested concepts in conflict data
Descriptive research is sometimes understood as simply compiling and presenting objective facts, or ‘telling it like it is.’ We challenge this understanding, arguing that description involves a series of subje...
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Open AccessTerritorial disputes and international law: reclaiming the sui generis nature of arbitration
This study aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between IR and international law in the study of conflict resolution by highlighting the sui generis nature of arbitration as a hybrid political-legal method of disp...
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Open AccessBeyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu
This contribution revisits Shih's mission of relational IR and the Chinese relational school from the perspective of the parallel between quantum physics and ancient Asian philosophies, such as Buddhism and Da...
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Open AccessIPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR
I read Shih’s intervention as an invitation to pay attention to relationality in not only ontological but also epistemological terms. I begin by observing that even those bodies of scholarship that focus on re...
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Open AccessUn-siloing securitization: an intersectional intervention
This research reflects on how securitization works as a structure of power, or as a vehicle through which extant power structures (nationalism, race, gender, class, (dis)ability) are operationalised. I attend ...
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Open AccessNorms as instruments of non-violent rivalry? Russian views on the promotion of renewable energy
Constructivists argue that international norms represent shared understandings of appropriate behaviour which become universally accepted after their successful internalisation. However, studies of norm contes...
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Open AccessOntological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?
Ontological security and the Copenhagen school’s societal security are both concerned with identity. While, the existing literature on ontological security has made use of the Copenhagen school’s concept of se...
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Open AccessLegitimacy and control: introduction to the special issue on rebel governance