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Decolonial teaching means giving up on the myth of objectivity
and — 28th May 2021
Teaching about Middle Eastern and North African issues in politics or international relations courses is challenged by negative stereotypes about the histories, countries, and people of the so-called MENA region. This often manifests itself in the way students imagine individual subjects, states and their political regimes, or broad themes such as development, social change, or […] Read more

Trump’s populist foreign policy rhetoric is more about cultivating his base than supporting US interests abroad
— 3rd August 2020
For many, Donald Trump has pursued a ‘presidency by Twitter’, using the social media platform to set out his views and policy positions on a variety of issues. Jonny Hall looks at how Trump’s Twitter rhetoric has affected US overseas counterterrorism campaigns. He finds that Trump’s words – including his pivot from talking about terrorists […] Read more

Performing ‘Sectarianism’: Towards an Ethnographic Understanding of Identity Change
— 8th February 2019
In a shifting and unstable world, questions regarding the cultivation, crystallisation, and manipulation of political and social identity categories seem more pressing now than ever before. Against the backdrop of rising populism, grassroots activism, and inter- and intra-communal antagonisms across the globe, how are we to make sense of the shifting sands of identity change? […] Read more

2018 Elections in Brazil: Political Reorder or ‘Gatopardism’?
— 28th October 2018
This post is the introduction to our virtual special issue on the 2018 Brazil elections. The issue was edited by Adrián Albala and André Borges, from the University of Brasilia, who also wrote this introduction. Introduction Brazil’s 2018 Election have widely been commented for three main reasons. First, the emergence, or better said the meteoric […] Read more