This thesis provides a genealogical account of ‘Taiwanese’ as a national identity. Genealogy is a way of writing a history of the present that de-familiarises us from what we now take for granted by revealing in detail ...

This thesis investigates the relationship between Taiwan’s threat perceptions and its national identity formation, with a focus on Taipei’s foreign policy conduct. Its central question is: how is China seen as a threat ...

What is the English School of International Relations and why is there increasing interest in it? Linklater and Suganami provide a comprehensive account of this distinctive approach to the study of world politics which ...

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 subjects to a close philosophical scrutiny the internal logic of Wendt’s extensive argument regarding his work’s location in the field—in particular, how it relates to, and differs from, the American ‘rationalist’ ...

This thesis examines the advocacy strategies of three Salvadoran non-governmental organisations (NGOs) aimed at contesting the Mano Dura gang policy and promoting the implementation of alternative forms of gang control. ...

This thesis engages critically with the question of how poststructuralist notions of ethics and responsibility might inform practical politics. The thesis reviews extant literature in Politics and International Relations ...