ncreased social power over the millennia has led to remarkable achievements in varied spheres of endeavour while introducing new possibilities for more destructive forms of harm over greater distances. Efforts to create ...

Islamic exceptionalism (IE), or the discourse of Islam's inassimilable difference, legitimizes post-9/11 encounters with Islam and strategies of political and cultural domestication of the Islamic cultural zones (ICZs). ...

The concept of ‘health security’ has been increasingly apparent in recent years in both academic and policy discourses on transborder infectious disease threats. Yet it has been noted that there are a range of conceptualisations ...

The Acholi population, who constitute the area often referred to as Acholi-land in northern Uganda, have been the most affected by the war waged over the past two decades by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). ‘Victims have ...

The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) is often considered the “jewel in the crown” of the European Union’s democracy promotion. Its mandate encompasses the funding of democratizing civil society ...

Es ist März. Europa steckt mitten in einer Wirtschaftskrise. Sonst gehen Menschen ihrem normalen Leben nach, man arbeitet und isst, steckt im Pendelverkehr oder schläft, in Sheffield verloben sich zwei, trotz Rezession, ...

Some three decades ago, post-positivists working in International Relations rejected the positivist separation of the knowing subject and the object known. In doing so, they established a new ‘critical’ paradigm in which ...

This article assesses how far it is possible to discern any form of what we might term a Whitean sensibility amongst contemporary practitioners of the history of international politics. An audit of contemporary practice ...