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The UK’s response to the conflict in Gaza: A challenge to British prestige, Arab allies and the existing world order
The UK’s response to the conflict in Gaza: A challenge to British prestige, Arab allies and the existing world order 25th Jun 2024 This post is part of a series of interventions drawn from contributions to a SEPAD (non)workshop on the regional and international implications of the Gaza conflict. A full report comprised of all these posts will follow in due course.--Dr Louise... Read More
Re-Claiming Babylon: Epistemic Violence and Rhetorical Sovereignty in Iraq Discourse
Re-Claiming Babylon: Epistemic Violence and Rhetorical Sovereignty in Iraq Discourse 14th May 2024 “What people of color quickly come to see…is that they are not seen at all” (Mills, 2017, 54). For two decades after the U.S.-led invasion, White people have been dominating English-language discourse on Iraq. Despite effort by some Iraqis... Read More
Leftist-Islamist cross-ideological opposition and cooperation in Morocco
Leftist-Islamist cross-ideological opposition and cooperation in Morocco 3rd Apr 2024 The author thanks the Garda Henkel Foundation's Security, Society and the State research programme for its financial support in writing this blog post. In 2019, the then vice-president of the National Council of the Moroccan Islamist ‘Justice and... Read More
Call for Papers: State Islam and Authoritarian Rule
Call for Papers: State Islam and Authoritarian Rule 20th Mar 2024 State Islam and Authoritarian Rule: Comparing Control Over Religious Institutions in Muslim-majority states December 2024 Lancaster University Neil Russell and Simon Mabon Scholars have detailed how authoritarian regimes utilise state institutions to... Read More
Researching Sects and tribes in the Syrian conflict: Positionality and methodological challenges
Researching Sects and tribes in the Syrian conflict: Positionality and methodological challenges 8th Mar 2024 The Arab Spring protest movement has sparked hope for the emergence of a civic national identity capable of supplanting current authoritarian regimes. However, the outbreak of bloody civil wars has exposed underlying tensions, leading to the resurgence... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 5 (Uysal)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 5 (Uysal) 15th Jan 2024 The State, exception and Turkey Gönenç Uysal Lecturer in International Political Economy, Lancaster University.  g.uysalwhittingham@lancaster.ac.uk There is a burgeoning academic interest in the notion of exception to discuss the state and its... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 4 (Mabon)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 4 (Mabon) 11th Dec 2023 Re-Imaging Sovereignty and the State  “We are at war with one another; a battlefront runs through the whole of society, continuously and permanently, and it is this battlefront that puts us all on one side or the other. There is no such thing as... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 3 (Teti)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 3 (Teti) 7th Dec 2023 Simulacra of Sovereignty and Statehood: The Biopolitics of Deferral, Simulation and Subalternity Andrea TetiDepartment of Political and Communication Sciences (DISPC) University of Salerno, Italy Email:         gteti@unisa.it The... Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 2 (Delatolla)
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 2 (Delatolla) 4th Dec 2023 Colonialism and the State   Andrew Delatolla, University of Leeds  The modern state as a concept is elusive; just when you think you have some formulation, some definition, or some working theoretical grounding, the rug is pulled out from... Read More
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