All Outputs (23)

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.

State/ corporation/ security : relations, practices, governmentality (2018)
Thesis
Kanapathipillai, V. State/ corporation/ security : relations, practices, governmentality. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

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.

Things Lost and Found: Richard Ashley and the Silences of Thinking Space (2010)
Journal Article
Laffey, M. (2010). Things Lost and Found: Richard Ashley and the Silences of Thinking Space. Review of International Studies, 36(4), 989-1004. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210510001403

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.

The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies (2006)
Journal Article
Barkawi, T., & Laffey, M. (2006). The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies. Review of International Studies, 32(2), 329-352. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210506007054

Policing and Global Governance (2005)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2005). Policing and Global Governance. In M. N. Barnett, & R. Duvall (Eds.), Power in Global Governance (59-79). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491207.003

US Foreign Policy, Public Memory, and Autism: Representing September 11 and May 4 (2004)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2004). US Foreign Policy, Public Memory, and Autism: Representing September 11 and May 4. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17(2), 355-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/0955757042000245942

In this article, we examine the social production of autism in US foreign policy discourse. Autism, we argue, is evident in the active forgetting of US foreign policy and its consequences, both in the US and abroad. It is this forgetting, promoted by... Read More about US Foreign Policy, Public Memory, and Autism: Representing September 11 and May 4.

Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity? (2004)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Weldes, J. (2004). Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity?. In P. Passavant, & J. Dean (Eds.), The Empire's New Clothes: reading Hardt and Negri (121-142). Routledge

Discerning the Patterns of World Order: Noam Chomsky and International Theory after the Cold War (2003)
Journal Article
Laffey, M. (2003). Discerning the Patterns of World Order: Noam Chomsky and International Theory after the Cold War. Review of International Studies, 29(4), 587-604. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210503005874

A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: globalization and historical materialism (2002)
Book Chapter
Laffey, M., & Dean, K. (2002). A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: globalization and historical materialism. In M. Rupert, & H. Smith (Eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays on Continuity and Change (90-109). Routledge

Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations (2002)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Barkawi, T. (2002). Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 31(1), 109-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298020310010601

This essay uses Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, one of the most widely read accounts of international politics in recent years, as a vehicle to rethink International Relations' engagement with the notion of empire. We begin with the observa... Read More about Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations.

Tall Tales of the State and Its Trials: The World According to Liberal Cosmopolitanism (2001)
Journal Article
Laffey, M. (2001). Tall Tales of the State and Its Trials: The World According to Liberal Cosmopolitanism. Politologiske studier, 4(2), 74-81

Democracy, Liberalism and War: Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debates (2001)
Book
Laffey, M. (2001). T. Barkawi, & M. Laffey (Eds.). Democracy, Liberalism and War: Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debates. Lynne Rienner

Locating Identity: Performativity, Foreign Policy and State Action (2000)
Journal Article
Laffey, M. (2000). Locating Identity: Performativity, Foreign Policy and State Action. Review of International Studies, 26(3), 429-444. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210500004290

The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization (1999)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Barkawi, T. (1999). The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization. European Journal of International Relations, 5(4), 403-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066199005004001

To date, the only account of the `zone of peace' among states in the core of the international system is that found in the democratic peace debates. We rework the conceptual parameters through which the object of analysis — the zone of peace — is def... Read More about The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization.