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Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine. Studies in World Christianity, 30(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2024.0472

The escalation of ecclesial and religio-political conflicts since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has further complicated the convoluted ecclesial situation in Ukraine and has been addressed in a series of sermon... Read More about Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine.

The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), 669-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468241258947

The sequence and escalation of Russian–Ukrainian political and military conflicts since 2014, culminating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have reopened interest in and debates on just war theory and practice in general and specifica... Read More about The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

El ascenso regional de China durante el siglo XXI: un cambio hacia el soft power en el Este y Sudeste Asiático (2023)
Journal Article
Cortés Rondoy, J. (2023). El ascenso regional de China durante el siglo XXI: un cambio hacia el soft power en el Este y Sudeste Asiático. Revista Latinoamericana sobre Estudios Asiáticos, 1(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6865.2023.71970

El objetivo principal de esta investigación es analizar los movimientos de la política exterior china en el Este y Sudeste Asiático durante el periodo 1998-2021. Se analizará la creciente importancia del soft power para China y para su estrategia de... Read More about El ascenso regional de China durante el siglo XXI: un cambio hacia el soft power en el Este y Sudeste Asiático.

Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (2023)
Book
El-Kazaz, S. (2023). Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027386

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the... Read More about Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul.

Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance (2022)
Journal Article
Lai, Y.-H. (2023). Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58(1), 8-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221124978

This article examines the nature of the legal system in Hong Kong and its process of autocratisation under the Chinese sovereign. This article suggests that, in colonial and post-colonial times, Hong Kong’s legal system follows the global trend of au... Read More about Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance.

Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics (2022)
Book Chapter
El-Kazaz, S., Clark, J., Harb, M., & Salman, L. (2022). Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics. In M. Lynch, J. Schwedler, & S. Yom (Eds.), The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings (256-280). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197640043.003.0011

The Arab uprisings of 2011–12 brought into stark relief the fact that neither states nor societies in the Middle East were monolithic units. Instead, the region shows remarkable variation in terms of administration, governance, and development at the... Read More about Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics.

Review of: Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian Veg, Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, ISBN 9781557291912 (2022)
Journal Article
Lai, E. (2022). Review of: Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian Veg, Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, ISBN 9781557291912. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(11), 2410-2411. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2057016

Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system (2021)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2022). Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system. Journal of Institutional Economics, 18(4), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137421000746

This paper considers Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system (HRS) and offers a possible solution. China's HRS, which has evolved over the past four decades to become its dominant form of rural land ownership,... Read More about Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.

Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009 (2021)
Book
Innes, M. A. (2021). Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009. Hurst and Co

America’s wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist ‘sanctuaries’ and ‘safe havens’. From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington’s policy-makers maintained an unwavering focus on find... Read More about Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009.

The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Cambridge, UK

We consider the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the theory and practice of governance. We define ‘governance’ as the process through which, in the case of a given entity or polity, resources are allocated, decisions made and policies implemen... Read More about The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State.

Re-learn how to govern risk (2021)
Digital Artefact
Meng, G., & Deakin, S. (2021). Re-learn how to govern risk

Re-learning how to manage risk can be a template for the future governance of anthropogenic crises, of which COVID-19 is likely just the harbinger.

Discernment of Spirits and Pastoral Circle in Social Movement: A Theological Reflection on Hong Kong’s Anti-extradition Movement (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, Y.-H. (2020). Discernment of Spirits and Pastoral Circle in Social Movement: A Theological Reflection on Hong Kong’s Anti-extradition Movement. 天主教研究學報. Tianzhujiao yanjiu xuebao, 11, 138-191

Tensions between developing spiritual growth and civil resistance often occur when spirituality is perceived as merely a personal pursuit of internal tranquillity and transcendence while civil resistance is regarded as generating confrontations, stru... Read More about Discernment of Spirits and Pastoral Circle in Social Movement: A Theological Reflection on Hong Kong’s Anti-extradition Movement.

Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limtitations (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, Y.-H., & Sing, M. (2020). Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limtitations. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 53(4), 41-67. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2020.53.4.41

In 2019, what began in Hong Kong as a series of rallies against a proposal to permit extraditions to mainland China grew into a raft of anti-authoritarian protests and challenges to Beijing’s grip on the city. Given the gravest political crisis confr... Read More about Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limtitations.

War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. A. (2020, June). War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall. Paper presented at BISA Conference 2020, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Bernard Fall (1926-1967) cuts an intriguing figure in the annals of American history. He produced an extraordinary volume of writing – seven books and 200 articles – over the course of a life cut tragically, prematurely short while on patrol with U.S... Read More about War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall.