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Pop Culture, huh, What Is It Good for? A Lot of Things, Actually

Cahir O’Doherty • Oct 25 2013 • Articles

In order to fully understand the cultural aspects of the study of Popular Culture and World Politics, the next stage is to engage critically and academically with cultural artefacts, cultural theory, and cultural history.

The UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Ambiguities

Paulo Pereira • Oct 25 2013 • Articles

The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime addresses issues important to global security. However, its universal principles, ignorance of local contexts and ambiguity are problematic.

Lampedusa and Marketized Surveillance in the Mediterranean: A Political Drama in Two Acts

Emma Carmel • Oct 25 2013 • Articles

The Lampedusa crisis will primarily serve to rationalize intensified surveillance of the maritime domain and the creation of market opportunities in an increasingly securitized Mediterranean.

Reel Presidents: Hollywood Depictions of US Presidents

Iwan Morgan • Oct 24 2013 • Articles

Hollywood’s representation of U.S. presidents has tended to idealize them as great leaders of an exceptional nation. But the developments of the Vietnam-Watergate era forced a rendezvous with reality.

Lampedusa and the ‘Crisis’ of Migration

Phil Cole • Oct 22 2013 • Articles

If the response to migration is for Europe to make its southern border even more dangerous to cross and to detain more migrants in ever more appalling decisions, then we have lurched in the wrong direction.

New Semester, New Textbook

Dylan Kissane • Oct 22 2013 • Articles

At CEFAM, an e-mail is being circulated asking professors to nominate the textbooks they will use in the Spring semester beginning in January. However, choosing textbooks for IR courses can have numerous problems.

Feminism and the Post-‘Arab Spring’

Bronwyn Winter • Oct 21 2013 • Articles

The transformation heralded by the 2011 uprisings still remains a very long way off. Replacement of one type of authoritarian state by another is very far from a feminist revolution.

International Relations on Screen: Hollywood’s History of American Foreign Policy

Ian Scott • Oct 20 2013 • Articles

U.S. cinema’s dalliance with U.S. foreign policy started in 1897 when it was entangled with the audience’s own nationalist fervour. Today, nationalist fervour and international relations are alive and well in Hollywood.

The Taylor Appeal Judgment: Achievement or Fragmentation of International Criminal Law?

Marina Aksenova • Oct 20 2013 • Articles

The importance of the Taylor Appeal judgment lies beyond strictly legal considerations, as it deems culpable involvement of the heads of states in political violence in another state no longer accepted.

Documenting the ‘War on Terror’

Bruce Bennett • Oct 16 2013 • Articles

One of the most striking ways Anglo-American filmmakers have responded critically to the ‘war on terror’ is through a generic and stylistic turn to the production of documentaries, docudramas and dramatized documentaries.

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