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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
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
قراءة استراتيجية للمشهد الإقليمي بعد الاتفاق السعودي-الإيراني: الإختبار الأول. 9th Jun 2023 قراءة استراتيجية للمشهد الإقليمي بعد الاتفاق السعودي-الإيراني: الإختبار الأول. مقدمة: غاب مشهد القادة المتنازعين حول الخلافات الإقليمية... Read More
India's Role in the Persian Gulf 24th Apr 2023 Guest post: Saloni Kapur. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.  In this report, I address the question of whether India’s relationship with the Persian Gulf states has gone through a paradigm shift since... Read More
Protests in Iran: The Regional Repercussions
Protests in Iran: The Regional Repercussions 19th Apr 2023 This piece was originally published in afkar/ideasi 68 in French and Spanish here.    In September 2022 the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police arrested a young women, Mahsa Aminie, who later died in custody. Amini’s... Read More
Looking through the Lens of the Syrian Conflict: Russia Seeks Status through the Middle East 4th Apr 2023 Guest post: Kasia A. Houghton. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East. Russia’s changing policies and role in the Middle East are a product of a crucible of domestic political challenges, perceived global... Read More
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