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Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order (2023)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M., & Laffey, M. (2023). Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order. International Affairs, 99(1), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac233

A prominent feature of the contemporary crisis of the liberal international order is diverse calls for justice, including epistemic and historic justice. For a long time, that order understood itself in liberal terms and as capable of delivering just... Read More about Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order.

Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks (2023)
Thesis
Hale, S. Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The street protests that erupted in Ukraine in late 2013 prompted by the government’s sudden pull-back from the process of joining the European Union, leading to the government’s collapse two months later, are widely understood as a pivotal moment of... Read More about Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks.

Can Networks Govern? (2017)
Digital Artefact
Sabaratnam, M., Patomäki, H., Leander, A., Abraham, K., Laffey, M., & Avant, D. (2017). Can Networks Govern?

Securing the diaspora: Policing global order (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Securing the diaspora: Policing global order. In J. Hönke, & M.-M. Muller (Eds.), The Global Making of Police: Postcolonial Perspectives (114-131). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680040

This chapter explores the transnational security governance of diasporas as a window onto the global making of policing. Using the Tamil diaspora in Britain as case study, it argues that policing – understood as governance directed to the production... Read More about Securing the diaspora: Policing global order.

Postcolonialism (2016)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. (2016). Postcolonialism. In A. Collins (Ed.), Contemporary Security Studies (122-138). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708315.003.0009

In this chapter, we introduce postcolonialism as a recent and increasingly influential set of positions and perspectives within the wider discipline of International Relations, and sketch its implications for security studies. We begin with postcolon... Read More about Postcolonialism.

The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity (2012)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Nadarajah, S. The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity. Security Dialogue, 43(5), 402-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010612457974

Much contemporary analysis of world order rests on and reproduces a dualistic account of the international system, which is divided into liberal and non-liberal spaces, practices and subjectivities. Drawing on postcolonial thought, we challenge such... Read More about The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity.

Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis (2008)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2008). Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis. International Studies Quarterly, 52(3), 555-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2008.00515.x

Postcolonial scholars show how knowledge practices participate in the production and reproduction of international hierarchy. A common effect of such practices is to marginalize Third World and other subaltern points of view. For three decades, analy... Read More about Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis.