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Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & S. Gerry (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (447-466). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.020

Against a great deal of contemporary Cold War scholarship, this chapter argues that Pakistan’s complex relations with the United States—as well as with the Soviet Union, China, India and Afghanistan—place it firmly at the centre of global Cold War po... Read More about Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.

Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space (2019)
Book Chapter
Newton, S. (2019). Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, G. Simpson, & A. Saunders (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (117-136). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.006

The Cold War brought into the world and the world of inter-state relations a novel kind of space, Division Space – really, a novel mode of spatialisation altogether. The double Germanies, the double Vietnams, the double Koreas, the double Berlins, an... Read More about Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space.

International Law and the Cold War (2019)
Book
Craven, M., Pahuja, S., & Simpson, G. (Eds.). (2019). International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, enviro... Read More about International Law and the Cold War.

Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (2019)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A., Ebbiary, A., Ad Duha Mohammad, S., Dhorat, S., Begum, S., Pandor, H., & Stolyar, J. (2019). Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project. Religions, 10(12), 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10120662

The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) addresses three key issues in the narrative of Muslim communal identity and religious leadership in Britain today: firstly, the need for the accreditation of Darul Ulooms (Muslim seminaries) and... Read More about Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project.

Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes? (2019)
Journal Article
Amodu, N. (2019). Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes?. African Journal of Legal Studies, 11(4), 319-351. https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340038

The 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill before the Nigerian National Assembly was proposed to foster sustainable development (SD) and embed corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the oil and gas corporate activities... Read More about Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes?.

The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets (2019)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J. (2019). The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 67(4), 825-860. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avz010

The project to standardize the commercial elements of the sharia as undertaken by standard-setting bodies, such as the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), is a lawmaking effort that is incentivized by mar... Read More about The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets.

Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire (2019)
Journal Article
Chamas, S. (2019). Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 12(13), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01203001

In this article, I examine the potential and shortcomings of political satire as a counter-discursive tool in Lebanon. I take the popular shows BBCHI and CHINN as objects of study, and discuss the ways in which these programs challenged narratives of... Read More about Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire.

A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan. In J. Halley, P. Kotiswaran, R. Rebouché, & H. Shamir (Eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (407-433). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvdjrpfs.19

There has been for a while a steady flow of critical studies of the women’s movement in Pakistan—that discursive and social formation of and about women that has been memorably described by Farida Shaheed, one of its foremost representatives, as a “m... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.

Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights (2019)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. (2019). Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights. In J. von Bernstorff, & P. Dann (Eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (102-124). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849636.003.0005

Concession agreements were at the heart of the battle for international law in the decolonization era. This chapter reconstructs the underpinnings of scholarly debates over the question to what extent and under which conditions Western investments in... Read More about Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights.