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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.

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?.

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’.

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.

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.

‘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.

Tailoring Anti-Corruption Reforms to Political Settlements: Insights from Indonesia (2025)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (in press). Tailoring Anti-Corruption Reforms to Political Settlements: Insights from Indonesia. Indonesia (Ithaca).

Anti-corruption interventions by development organizations and multilateral donor agencies in the Global South have largely failed. This paper argues that such efforts have been ineffective because they prioritized technical fixes while overlooking t... Read More about Tailoring Anti-Corruption Reforms to Political Settlements: Insights from Indonesia.

The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races (2025)
Journal Article
Eslami, M., Vieira, A., Adib-Moghaddam, A., Borges, L., Papageorgiou, M., Cristiano, F., Al-Marashi, I., Sauer, T., & Kaunert, C. (2025). The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races. Geopolitics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2572695

This forum highlights the disruptive implications of AI for the geopolitical landscape by examining its integration into command-and-control systems, military doctrines, and global security discourses. These transformations are embedded in core debat... Read More about The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races.

Neo-colonialist, perennial underdog, or smart influencer: India in The Gambia and Ghana (2025)
Journal Article
Harris, D., Jaw, S. M., Siakwah, P., & Vittorini, S. (2025). Neo-colonialist, perennial underdog, or smart influencer: India in The Gambia and Ghana. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 1-25. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2025.2567088

Since the mid-2000s, India has substantially increased its presence in Africa and is now active right across the continent. Despite this expansion, India still lives in the shadow of China and the west in Africa. Equally, the presence and influence o... Read More about Neo-colonialist, perennial underdog, or smart influencer: India in The Gambia and Ghana.

What kind of a family should exist? Children and Russia’s use of ‘traditional family values’ narratives in the Russia-Ukraine war (2025)
Journal Article
Hoban, I., Nguyen, M., & Johnson, D. (2025). What kind of a family should exist? Children and Russia’s use of ‘traditional family values’ narratives in the Russia-Ukraine war. Critical Studies on Security, 1-23. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2025.2578562

The Kremlin’s rhetoric of defending ‘traditional family values’ has been central to Russian justifications for its invasion of Ukraine and policies towards its children. This study analyzes the relationship between family, state ideologies, and child... Read More about What kind of a family should exist? Children and Russia’s use of ‘traditional family values’ narratives in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Small Revolutionaries: Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War (2025)
Book
Nguyen, M. A. (2025). Small Revolutionaries: Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501783975

In Small Revolutionaries, Mai Anh Nguyen analyzes the life histories of young Vietnamese who participated in the military struggle against the US and its South Vietnamese allies from 1955–1975. Their contributions took many forms: intelligence gather... Read More about Small Revolutionaries: Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War.

A new capital pipeline to the Gulf? Geopolitical conflicts, capital flight, and the Russian exodus to the United Arab Emirates (2025)
Journal Article
Malit, F., & Alexander, K. (2025). A new capital pipeline to the Gulf? Geopolitical conflicts, capital flight, and the Russian exodus to the United Arab Emirates. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1-18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2025.2559341

How do geopolitical conflicts affect ‘illiberal’ host states’ domestic and foreign policy processes in the Global South? Despite such critical relevance, scholars have yet to examine the complex geopolitical effects of the Russia–Ukraine war on the g... Read More about A new capital pipeline to the Gulf? Geopolitical conflicts, capital flight, and the Russian exodus to the United Arab Emirates.

Climate Change, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Political Obligation (2025)
Book Chapter
Mittiga, R. (2025). Climate Change, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Political Obligation. In G. Klosko (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation (pp. 308-321). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191968488.003.0030

Climate change is clearly a political problem but how is it a problem for political obligation? This chapter argues that if we accept: (i) the uncontroversial view that political legitimacy functions as a hard constraint on the moral duty to obey the... Read More about Climate Change, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Political Obligation.

Collective Memories, Concepts and Experiences: Two Angles on the Political Process of Meaning Making (2025)
Journal Article
Borowetz, T., & Berenskötter, F. (2025). Collective Memories, Concepts and Experiences: Two Angles on the Political Process of Meaning Making. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298251367422

This article explores the connection between concepts and memories. Although the meaning-making capacity of concepts is well recognised, their role in the formation and contestation of collective memories is rarely addressed by International Relation... Read More about Collective Memories, Concepts and Experiences: Two Angles on the Political Process of Meaning Making.

Communicating Across Contexts: How Translation Can Benefit Comparative Area Studies (2025)
Book Chapter
Simmons, E. S., & Smith, N. R. (2025). Communicating Across Contexts: How Translation Can Benefit Comparative Area Studies. In A. I. Ahram, P. Köllner, & R. Sil (Eds.), Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (pp. 29-46). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197809365.003.0002

Regardless of the methods used, political science research typically seeks to generate causal arguments that are applicable across a population of cases. But is this the only way to think about how political science research travels? We advocate for... Read More about Communicating Across Contexts: How Translation Can Benefit Comparative Area Studies.