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Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’ (2025)
Thesis
Solomon, D. Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

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’.

Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest (2025)
Thesis
Kaletsch, P.-O. Y. Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

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.

The pitfalls of the humanitarian principles “impartiality” and “humanity” in humanitarian aid in Borno, Nigeria (2025)
Journal Article
Wando, A. H. (online). The pitfalls of the humanitarian principles “impartiality” and “humanity” in humanitarian aid in Borno, Nigeria. Development in Practice, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2025.2524031

The application of the traditional humanitarian principles: impartiality, humanity, neutrality, and independence has been a source of contention in humanitarian interventions. The literature is broadly divided into two groups: traditional humanitaria... Read More about The pitfalls of the humanitarian principles “impartiality” and “humanity” in humanitarian aid in Borno, Nigeria.

Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture (2025)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2025). Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture. International Political Sociology, 19(3), Article olaf018. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf018

In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of memory in world politics. Within this literature, contentious memory politics have been shown to play an outsized role in many international relationships, especially among post-... Read More about Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture.

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. (2025)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229

Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Brandon, C., Kratzer, B., Aggarwal, A., & Heubaum, H. (2025). Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach

The paper shows how using the Triple Dividend of Resilience framework to evaluate the full benefits of 320 climate adaptation investments reveals their full value. Covering adaptation and resilience investments across 12 countries, the study finds th... Read More about Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach.

The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence (2025)
Book
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2025). The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526189516

The myth of good AI offers a bold new approach to understanding artificial intelligence and its implications for human security. Dismantling the ‘good AI’ narrative pedalled by tech giants, the book exposes the full extent of AI’s nefarious impact on... Read More about The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence.

Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific (2025)
Journal Article
Loke, B., & Emmers, R. (online). Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2025.2509555

US–China great power competition in the Indo-Pacific is intensifying, with important consequences for the conceptualisation of regional order. However, many debates remain largely wedded to binary analysis, failing to capture the complexity and fluid... Read More about Coalition-building and the politics of hegemonic ordering in the Indo-Pacific.

Symbolic Power (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoffmann, A. (2025). Symbolic Power. In S. E. Goddard, G. Lawson, & O. J. Sending (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology (717-734). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854708.013.34

Studying symbolic power is a commitment of international political sociology (IPS). This chapter analyzes the roots of symbolic power in Pierre Bourdieu’s work on Algeria, language, and critical engagement with Max Weber before surveying its uses in... Read More about Symbolic Power.

Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war (2025)
Journal Article
Nguyen, M. A. (2025). Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war. War and Society, 44(3), 464-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2025.2503639

This article traces the presence of ideology in everyday lives of Vietnamese children and youth in the lead-up and during the Vietnam War, focusing on the 1955−75 period. I draw on the notion of ideology as embodied practice, present in individuals’... Read More about Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war.

Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin (2025)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D., & Wando, A.-H. (online). Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin. Journal of Borderlands Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2025.2504891

This article explores how grassroots Pan-Africanism is lived and practiced in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), a region where borders function both as instruments of state control and as conduits for transnational connection. Drawing on interviews across N... Read More about Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin.

Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security (2025)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y., & Chu, Y.-W. (online). Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251336825

Taiwan’s transition from a miracle of “growth with equity” to inegalitarian growth in the 21st century cannot be fully explained by the prevailing theories of globalization or social politics derived from the study of Western capitalism and social po... Read More about Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security.