Human rights depend on everyday social acts
What role do sanctuary movements play in a world where states make it harder for irregular migrants to live as human beings?
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Special Issues
Are emotions inherently volatile in International Relations?
What explains the revolt against the International Criminal Court and the resilience of humanitarian intervention? Steven C. Roach explores the meaning of affective values in International Relations.
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When do marginalized migrants become visible?
Unwanted migrants become visible, when they use their own agency to disrupt and subvert the system that is discriminatory towards them.
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Investigating the positionality and political agency of migrant children
How do migrant children react to the paradox of holding two seemingly contradictory subject positions at once: the (deserving) child and the (undeserving) migrant?
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Soft Power in World Politics
What is soft power, what role does it play in world politics and how is it used by authoritarian states? Recently we asked some of our authors to discuss these questions
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3 perspectives on soft power in China, Russia and Iran
What is soft power? And how is it used by Russia, China and Iran? Watch videos of Ilya Yablokov, Kingsley Edney and Edward Wastnidge discussing these questions
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The policy challenge of diversity and inclusion
European societies are increasingly diverse. This is enriching as much as it is challenging. What is the best way to respond?
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I don’t know much about it…: Teaching ‘the Dark Continent’
Students lack of familiarity with Africa is inseparable from the colonial legacies that have shaped our knowledge of the continent. Laura Routley discusses how to address students self-confessed ignorance of the ‘Dark Continent’’…
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Exploring citizens’ understandings of Community and Cohesion in New Labour’s Britain
Language and imagery used in policy texts can have a profound effect on how citizens relate to political decisions that affect their lives. It can even lead citizens to consent to policy that may not have their best interests at heart.
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Who tells the story of war and peace: international actors, national elites or local actors?
Whose version of the war and peace story wins out? The version created by international actors, by national elites or by the local actors who experienced the violence (and possibly the making of peace) on the ground?
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