Outputs (2)

Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space (2024)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, A. (2024). Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3), Article ksae054. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae054

How do we study the UN Security Council, a bastion of sovereign nation-state politics, from the perspective of “outsiders” such as UN special rapporteurs? This article reimagines the relationship between security and human rights at the UN through a... Read More about Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space.

What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea (2024)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, A. (2024). What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea. European Journal of International Relations, 30(1), 27-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231151233

This article argues that spokespersons who claim to speak on behalf of a social group cannot escape the structural problem of delegation whereby speaking in someone’s name entails speaking instead of someone. This form of delegated and authorised sil... Read More about What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea.