The COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change: Why Have Responses Been So Different?
As the COVID-19 crisis recedes some states will be eager to rebuild their economies, even if it means dismissing previously agreed international climate change goals.
Reproducing the European Gaze Through Reflexivity: The Limits of Calling Out Failures
There is a need to problematise the notion of ‘failure’ through its reliance on and reproduction of reflexivity as a positioned practice advocated by scholars.
Fieldwork, Feelings and Failure to Be a (Proper) Security Researcher
Fieldwork is, among many other things, messy, and deeply frustrating and failure is unavoidable. The feelings this produces are shared by many researchers.
European Parliaments in Times of Coronavirus
Governments are calling the shots in this time of emergency. This becomes problematic if there is no clear end to this ‘state of danger’ and when (new) crisis measures are no longer democratically debated.
Attuning to Alterity: From Depression to Fieldwork
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
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.
The ‘European (Union) Identity’: An Overview
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
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.
Guiding Principles for the Development and Use of LAWS: Version 1.0
The advent of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) presents States with new political, technological, operational, legal and ethical challenges.
