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The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner (2025)
Thesis
Wang, X. (2025). The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773325

Academic attention accompanying the global rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has generated a burgeoning literature, and with China’s accelerated integration into economic globalisation over the past three decades, the study of CSR in Chin... Read More about The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner.

Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power (2025)
Thesis
Thumpston, D. A. (2025). Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773303

As China’s economy has developed, Chinese firms have become sophisticated and globalised, investing in emerging technologies and critical infrastructure sectors in advanced economies. This, in turn, has led to pushback and rejection of Chinese firms... Read More about Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power.

Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era (2025)
Thesis
Ngenda, M. K. (2025). Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00642578

This thesis aims to explain the interrelated evolution of Zambian opposition parties’ approaches to electoral competition and the character of electoral institutions over the period from 1991 to 2021, contributing to debates on the trajectory of demo... Read More about Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era.

The Recurring Conflicts between South Korea and Japan: Interplay of Institutional Path Dependence and Actors’ Beliefs (2025)
Thesis
Kwak, K. (2025). The Recurring Conflicts between South Korea and Japan: Interplay of Institutional Path Dependence and Actors’ Beliefs [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00595740

The recurring conflicts between South Korea and Japan, particularly over historical issues, despite having various reasons to cooperate, have long been a puzzle. This paper employs the historical institutionalism theory and appended concept path depe... Read More about The Recurring Conflicts between South Korea and Japan: Interplay of Institutional Path Dependence and Actors’ Beliefs.

Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation? (2025)
Thesis
Laila, N. (2025). Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation? [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00552236

In the era of Industry 4.0, political power undergoes transformation due to the rise of AI-driven technology. Thus, it reshapes concepts of international development and socioeconomic disparities in the cyber-physical domain. While digital power is c... Read More about Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation?.

Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest (2025)
Thesis
Kaletsch, P.-O. Y. (2025). Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506960

Contemporary social movement studies critique evaluations of failure as lacking causality and precision. Concept analysis stresses the need for a theoretical examination of core concepts that most empirical and theoretical approaches in the academic... Read More about Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest.

Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’ (2025)
Thesis
Solomon, D. (2025). Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’ [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506376

Contemporary analyses of the crisis of the ‘liberal international order’, and the threat posed to it by China, are deficient. These accounts are based on a particular understanding of the international, and an assumption that China’s contestation of... Read More about Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’.

‘Vandals', ‘idiots' and ‘completely deranged'! Exploring political responses to climate activism in Germany and Italy (2025)
Journal Article
Forte, A., & Ulbricht, A. (2025). ‘Vandals', ‘idiots' and ‘completely deranged'! Exploring political responses to climate activism in Germany and Italy. European Politics and Society, 1-14. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2025.2584514

This paper analyses discursive responses to the Letzte Generation/Ultima Generazione (LG/UG) protests in Germany and Italy. Despite the political differences in the two countries’ governing coalitions, both exhibit similarities in their response to c... Read More about ‘Vandals', ‘idiots' and ‘completely deranged'! Exploring political responses to climate activism in Germany and Italy.

Reclaiming Public Space: Statues as Resources for a Queer Political Philosophy (2025)
Journal Article
Doughty, J. (2025). Reclaiming Public Space: Statues as Resources for a Queer Political Philosophy. Public Humanities, 1, e154. https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.10071

In 1886, a statue of Antinous, beloved of Roman Emperor Hadrian, was installed at University College London for reasons that remain unknown. Building on queer aesthetic theory, I argue that queer statues such as this can be used to transform the publ... Read More about Reclaiming Public Space: Statues as Resources for a Queer Political Philosophy.