Articles

The Challenges of Teaching Popular Culture and World Politics

Kyle Grayson • Jun 20 2015 • Articles

A common mistake when teaching popular culture and world politics is to overestimate the skill set that students will bring with them into the course.

The Irish Same-Sex Marriage Referendum: Its Meaning for LGBT Rights in the EU

Michael Pelz • Jun 19 2015 • Articles

LGBT rights promotion across Europe remains an elite-level project. The EU must work directly with national partners to demonstrate that they matter equally.

Rohingya Crisis and the ‘Boat People’ Conference: Towards a Regional Solution?

Siegfried O. Wolf • Jun 18 2015 • Articles

Regional governments in South East Asia need to identify the unsolved Rohingya problem as a chance for constructive cooperation instead of a roadblock for collaboration.

The European Left after Recession and Representation: Social Democracy or Bust?

David Bailey • Jun 14 2015 • Articles

The less austere management of European capitalism would amount to an attempt to revive the spirit of social democracy, despite it having been exposed as a dead end.

Statelessness: A Responsibility to Protect?

Alanna O'Malley • Jun 14 2015 • Articles

If pictures of migrants result only in plans to strengthen borders, invoking the legal obligations of an internationally accepted policy may be the best way forward.

The UK after the 2015 General Election: Doomed to Be a ‘Failed State’?

Christian Schweiger • Jun 11 2015 • Articles

Brexit is not an inevitability. In the absence of charismatic pro-European voices, the pro-EU camp will struggle to make its voice heard against eurosceptic voices.

Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics

Robert A. Saunders • Jun 11 2015 • Articles

Pop Culture stages debates on complex topics associated with the history of imperialism, geopolitical thinking and the relationship between territory, space and power.

Cyber Weapons as a Game Changer: A Critical Reflection

Andreas Haggman • Jun 9 2015 • Articles

Claims that cyber weapons are a game changer are often based on a misunderstanding and overestimation of cyber weapons’ capabilities and effects.

What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?

Matt Davies and Marianna I. Franklin • Jun 9 2015 • Articles

Music and music-making can enhance a body of work that looks to de-reify received analytical categories of the discipline and thereby continue to enrich its key debates.

The Search for Water Wars: Looking beyond the State

Ed Atkins • Jun 8 2015 • Articles

The reallocation of water regularly leads to a redistribution of the benefits that it provides, provoking community action. It is here we find our debated water wars.

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