How the partial colonisation of Afghanistan and its ‘frontier status’ has generated discourses of state failure, and how this has led to the construal of Afghanistan as a zone of exception and of permanent crisis.
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8 new journal articles from our Special Issue on Irregular Migration and the Politics of Agency.
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Read four new interviews in E-IR and their related Politics articles on new issues in IR theory.
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How to make the most from proposing a Special Issue to an academic journal.
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Russia has claimed a special strategic interest in Ukraine, but how do Ukrainians feel about that? This
article in the
special issue on the ‘Soft Power of Hard States’ explores the reaction of the Ukrainian audience to Moscow’s efforts to exercise cultural leadership in the region.
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Both Beijing and Moscow have endorsed soft power but their understanding and adaptation of the concept differs significantly from that of the West.
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This diverse collection curated for #ISA2015 demonstrates both the range of material that we have published in international studies as well as its quality.
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Michael Barr looks at Politics’ special section on the use and impact of web technologies and highlights key issues in the debate over the mutually constitutive relation between social media and politics
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