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Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China (2023)
Journal Article
Mittelstaedt, J. C. (2023). Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China. Modern China, 50(5), 607-640. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004231206177

This article focuses on the development of “grassroots cultural infrastructure”—namely, “cultural halls” and “cultural stations”—at the county level and below since the Mao Zedong era. Since their formation, the party-state has accorded cultural hall... Read More about Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China.

The Renaissance of Impeachment (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D. (2023). The Renaissance of Impeachment. In C. Monaghan, & M. Flinders (Eds.), British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255956-15

This chapter provides a personal account of the origin and conduct of the campaign by some members of the British House of Commons to use the idea and process of impeachment to bring the then Prime Minister Tony Blair MP to account for his conduct in... Read More about The Renaissance of Impeachment.

Ironclad US commitment to NATO? From NATO expansion to the Ukraine crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Song, Y. (2024). Ironclad US commitment to NATO? From NATO expansion to the Ukraine crisis. Cogent Social Sciences, 10(1), Article 2282734. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2282734

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is not an accident but an inevitable consequence of how the West, especially the US, has utilised NATO in the post-Cold War period. This encompasses the activities which the US has supported NATO to pursue in the... Read More about Ironclad US commitment to NATO? From NATO expansion to the Ukraine crisis.

Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., Chung, E. A., & Hollifield, J. F. (2024). Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(3), 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269769

This essay (re-) introduces the concept of the migration state and its significance for migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing its intellectual history and relationship to Hollifield’s wider body of work. The author... Read More about Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating.

Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2024). Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(3), 597-616. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269774

This article develops the concept of ‘entangled migration states’ as a means of highlighting the centrality of migration governance to state-building processes, the constitution of state sovereignty, and interstate relations. Drawing on the example o... Read More about Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria.

Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership (2023)
Book Chapter
Robinson, M. (2023). Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris, & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and societal impacts (1-18). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-3631-4ch57

The complexity of this landscape and the interconnectivity of modern Big Science is reflected in the essay by Dr Mark Robinson (SOAS, London) in chapter 56. Exasperatingly the world is beset by an inability of countries to cooperate via international... Read More about Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership.