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The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands (2025)
Journal Article
Peng, X. (online). The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands. Journal of Contemporary Asia, https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2025.2468511

This article investigates the persistent conflicts in the Kokang region, a territory on the China–Myanmar border occupied by a Han Chinese community. The conflicts in 2009, 2015 and 2023, characterised by intense clashes between Kokang’s Myanmar Nati... Read More about The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands.

The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention (2025)
Thesis
Clayton, J. J. The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis reinterprets the Vietnam Syndrome that describes the section of US public opinion that has been hesitant to use military intervention since the failure of the Vietnam War. It makes an original contribution to scholarship by arguing that th... Read More about The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention.

Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors (2025)
Thesis
Liu, R. Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis seeks to build analytical framework bridging the domestic and international factors in driving China’s foreign policy making in Xi’s era. This thesis has been suited with the context of Xi’s first two terms, when it has witnessed with tig... Read More about Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors.

Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands (2024)
Journal Article
Peng, X. (2024). Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands. China perspectives, 138(9-20), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.4000/12fwg

This article examines the relationship between the survival and resilience of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) and their involvement in the illicit economy in the China-Myanmar borderlands of northern Shan State over time. Drawing on fieldwork condu... Read More about Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands.

Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (2024)
Book
Tawil-Souri, H., & Matar, D. (Eds.). (2024). Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755654291

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palesti... Read More about Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media.

Debt, Diplomacy, and Trust: A Case Study Approach to Assessing the Architecture of Modern Debt Diplomacy (2024)
Thesis
Rosier, K. Debt, Diplomacy, and Trust: A Case Study Approach to Assessing the Architecture of Modern Debt Diplomacy. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Assuming creditor countries that engage in debt diplomacy are seeking to reestablish equilibrium in a debtor country’s balance of payments via debt diplomacy, this paper seeks to understand the independent variables and conditions against which Weste... Read More about Debt, Diplomacy, and Trust: A Case Study Approach to Assessing the Architecture of Modern Debt Diplomacy.

The Renaissance of Impeachment (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D. (2023). The Renaissance of Impeachment. In C. Monaghan, & M. Flinders (Eds.), British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255956-15

This chapter provides a personal account of the origin and conduct of the campaign by some members of the British House of Commons to use the idea and process of impeachment to bring the then Prime Minister Tony Blair MP to account for his conduct in... Read More about The Renaissance of Impeachment.

Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership (2023)
Book Chapter
Robinson, M. (2023). Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris, & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and societal impacts (1-18). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-3631-4ch57

The complexity of this landscape and the interconnectivity of modern Big Science is reflected in the essay by Dr Mark Robinson (SOAS, London) in chapter 56. Exasperatingly the world is beset by an inability of countries to cooperate via international... Read More about Big Science collaborations—lessons for global governance and leadership.

The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Schneider, G. (2023). The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation. In S. K. Knapton, & K. Rossy (Eds.), Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (175-193). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350182707.ch-8

Breaking the cycle of corruption in Nigeria's electricity sector: Off-grid solutions for local enterprises (2023)
Journal Article
Roy, P., Watkins, M., Iwuamadi, C. K., & Ibrahim, J. (2023). Breaking the cycle of corruption in Nigeria's electricity sector: Off-grid solutions for local enterprises. Energy Research & Social Science, 101, Article 103130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103130

Access to electricity is a major constraint to economic growth in Nigeria. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are arguably the segment of the Nigerian economy most disadvantaged by a lack of access to reliable power. Due to the failure of grid-based... Read More about Breaking the cycle of corruption in Nigeria's electricity sector: Off-grid solutions for local enterprises.

Represented but not always heard: an analysis of the progress of gender equality at the United Nations through the lens of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, M., & Romani, E. (2023). Represented but not always heard: an analysis of the progress of gender equality at the United Nations through the lens of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 12, 267-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42597-023-00095-x

Gender inequality has always been a structural problem at the United Nations. The voices of women as well as those of non-binary people and marginalised communities have always been present but often never truly heard. The elevation of some female pe... Read More about Represented but not always heard: an analysis of the progress of gender equality at the United Nations through the lens of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment (2023)
Journal Article
Angell, B., Onwujekwe, O., Roy, P., Nwokolo, C., McKee, M., Mandeville, K., Obodoechi, D., Agwu, P., Odii, A., Orjiakor, C. T., Hutchinson, E., & Balabanova, D. (2023). Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment. World Development, 166, Article 106208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106208

Health worker absenteeism is a major form of corruption in the Nigerian health system, reducing the impact of healthcare investment and disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities. Top-down governance and accountability measures to improve at... Read More about Designing feasible anti-corruption strategies in the Nigerian health system: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment.

A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations (2023)
Thesis
Vickery, N. J. A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

thesis is an archival history using evidence from British wartime planning and policy pursued in the early years (1945-47) of the UN to understand elite UK policymaker expectations of the role of the UN. It challenges the understanding of British pol... Read More about A Positive Peace: Britain and the Creation of the United Nations.

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.

The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD (2023)
Thesis
Mikkelsen, J. F. The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis seeks new insight into the role of the executive heads of inter-governmental organisations, particularly the nexus of the relationships with the political world of member states, non-member states, and other multilateral actors, and the i... Read More about The Role of the Executive Head in Inter-Governmental Organisations: In Search of Agency: The Cases of the UNECE and the OECD.