Articles

Fieldwork and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Kodili Henry Chukwuma • Apr 18 2020 • Articles

Research institutions could provide training programmes that addresses the issue of a global pandemic in the context of carrying out research related activities such as fieldwork.

Applying Complexity Theory to the Coronavirus Crisis

Faies Jafar • Apr 18 2020 • Articles

Complexity theory is compatible and is qualified to become a theoretical framework within IR to explain the diffusion and political impact of COVID-19 worldwide.

Geopolitics and John Dee

Vladimir Vladimirovich Wiedemann • Apr 18 2020 • Articles

John Dee had developed the first foundational draft of global British geopolitics. A plan he initially tried to implement under Queen Elizabeth I.

The EU’s Global Health Crisis Management: Past and Present

Susan Bergner • Apr 17 2020 • Articles

If the EU wants to act as a successful global health crises manager, it has to overcome the ‘first Europe then the rest logic’ and act at all levels – regional and international – simultaneously

Attuning to Alterity: From Depression to Fieldwork

Jakub Záhora • Apr 17 2020 • Articles

I realised that thinking about the impact my condition has on my work enables me to objectify my mental states, detach myself from these experiences and understand them.

The Limits of Control? Conducting Fieldwork at the United Nations

Holger Niemann • Apr 17 2020 • Articles

We should strive for greater transparency in acknowledging the complexity of our fields, as well as the confusion our own situatedness can cause in the research process.

Opinion – Government Was Made for the Coronavirus

Alexander Brotman • Apr 16 2020 • Articles

It is up to both political leaders and their constituents of all persuasions to ensure accountability and the delivery of all that government is capable of in the months ahead.

The ‘European (Union) Identity’: An Overview

Ugur Tekiner • Apr 15 2020 • Articles

The European Identity has undergone many phases. The fluctuating course of the integration renders it a construct emerging within the limits of European unification.

The European Identity: An Attempt at a Novel Approach

Ugur Tekiner • Apr 15 2020 • Articles

The European Identity is caught amid five major tensions, so a novel approach can develop on the condition that its room of manoeuvre left by those tensions is overcome.

Introducing Guiding Principles for the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

The Guiding Principles are a starting point for discussing how autonomous weapons might be somewhat constrained and what ‘good’ practice might look like.

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