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Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan (2018)
Journal Article
Cheng, I., Momesso, L., & Fell, D. (2019). Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan. International Migration, 57(4), 202-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12534

Viewed as outsiders clinging onto links with their country of origin, immigrants do not often feature positively in electoral politics in their host society. Challenging this conventional view, this paper examines how immigrants make use of their tra... Read More about Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan.

What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings (2018)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2019). What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings. Contemporary Political Theory, 18, 180-201. https://doi.org/10.1057/S41296-018-0281-9

Central to W.E.B. Du Bois’s political theory is a conception of “world” remarkably similar to that put forward, years later, by Martin Heidegger. This point is more methodological than historical: I claim that approaching Du Bois’s work as a source,... Read More about What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings.

Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah (2018)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2018). Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah. Review of International Studies, 44(5), 882-901. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210518000335

This paper draws on a Kleinian psychoanalytic reading of Hegel’s theory of the struggle for recognition to explore the role of international misrecognition in the creation of state subjectivity. It focuses on Ghana’s early years, when international r... Read More about Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah.

How the Great War made soccer the world’s most popular sport—and led to its first viral moment (2018)
Digital Artefact
Krasnoff, L. S. How the Great War made soccer the world’s most popular sport—and led to its first viral moment

One hundred years ago in mid-November, the guns went silent as an armistice ended four years of grueling, total warfare. It was a cruel conflict that devastated Europe, and in the wake of the destruction, modern society came into being. Looking back,... Read More about How the Great War made soccer the world’s most popular sport—and led to its first viral moment.

Deep Theorizing in International Relations (2018)
Journal Article
Berenskoetter, F. (2018). Deep Theorizing in International Relations. European Journal of International Relations, 24(4), 814-840. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117739096

This paper starts from the observation that, at a time when the popularity of grand theory is in decline among IR scholars, they do not agree on what they mean by theory. In fact, the celebration of theoretical pluralism is accompanied by the relativ... Read More about Deep Theorizing in International Relations.