The Single African Passport – Curb the Enthusiasm, Challenges Abound
The concept of continental integration under the African Union with a single African passport comes with some merits and some challenges.
Feeling For the Game: How Emotions Shape Listening in Peacebuilding Partnerships
Interpreting emotions are not considered relevant to being a competent peace building practitioner, but paying attention to it helps us to listen and identify obstacles.
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Election and Political Future
With the lack of a truly democratic government, a leader sympathising with the people and representing their interest might be the best Hong Kong can currently hope for.
Can Social Media Help Develop Politically Active Global Communities?
Social media provides new forms of, and tools for, activism but its potential to build a global community of politically active citizens should not be overestimated.
Review – Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts
An indispensable reference work which provides an in-depth contextual frame for the origins and interrelationship of key terms associated with neoliberalism.
Portugal and the EEC Accession: Informal Practices and Arrangements
An assessment of the role of informal actors/procedures/rules in international relations, with a particular focus on the accession to the European institutions.
(In)Security: From Thick Signifier to Empty Signifier
The in(security) of the minors is at stake in a semantic and practical power struggle among different actors such as the US, the UN, NGOs, countries of origin and the minors themselves.
Railing Relations from the UK to China
In perspective, a train carrying freight from the UK to the eastern side of China shows that such a link is possible, but whether it can be sustainable is another matter.
Dispelling Nationalism as Immaculate Conception
The existing nationalist discourse can be mapped to an electric circuit, thus at times it seems nationalism operates almost like Immaculate Conception.
Balkan Schrodinger’s Cat: The Case of Macedonian Democracy
Urgent reforms on systemic rule of law issues and the restoration of freedom of expression need to occur in order to determine the future of Macedonian democracy.
