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Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space (2024)
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Hoffmann, A. (2024). Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3), Article ksae054. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae054

How do we study the UN Security Council, a bastion of sovereign nation-state politics, from the perspective of “outsiders” such as UN special rapporteurs? This article reimagines the relationship between security and human rights at the UN through a... Read More about Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council: Blurring Boundaries in a Social Space.

Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine (2024)
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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)
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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.

What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea (2024)
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Hoffmann, A. (2024). What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea. European Journal of International Relations, 30(1), 27-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231151233

This article argues that spokespersons who claim to speak on behalf of a social group cannot escape the structural problem of delegation whereby speaking in someone’s name entails speaking instead of someone. This form of delegated and authorised sil... Read More about What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea.

El ascenso regional de China durante el siglo XXI: un cambio hacia el soft power en el Este y Sudeste Asiático (2023)
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Cortés Rondoy, J. (in press). El ascenso regional de China durante el siglo XXI: un cambio hacia el soft power en el Este y Sudeste Asiático. 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.

The transnational and the international: from critique of statism to transversal lines (2022)
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Hoffmann, A. (2022). The transnational and the international: from critique of statism to transversal lines. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35(6), 796-810. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2021.1893271

What can we learn about the ‘international’ through the ‘transnational’? This article investigates transnational spaces and practices in the context of international law and their transformative influence on our understanding of the international. I... Read More about The transnational and the international: from critique of statism to transversal lines.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
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George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging? (2022)
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Kobayashi, Y., & King, J. (2022). Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging?. International Affairs, 98(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac049

This article examines Myanmar's hedging strategies in China's Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), a key component of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Myanmar has avoided being overly reliant on China by strategically hedging and diversifying its... Read More about Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging?.

Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and Temporalities in the New State Capitalism (2022)
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Eagleton-Pierce, M. (2023). Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and Temporalities in the New State Capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), 184-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221083986

The heterogenous literature on the ‘new state capitalism’ has provoked considerable academic and popular interest in recent years, but also critique regarding how to analytically bolster the concept and enhance empirical understanding. This paper res... Read More about Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and Temporalities in the New State Capitalism.

Is it Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German-Israeli Relations (2022)
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Berenskoetter, F., & Mitrani, M. (2022). Is it Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German-Israeli Relations. International Studies Quarterly, 66(1), Article sqac001. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac001

This article explores the nature of the contemporary “special relationship” between Germany and Israel. Having emerged out of the ashes of the Second World War and the Holocaust, political relations between these two states are widely seen as having... Read More about Is it Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German-Israeli Relations.

Ritual and authority in world politics (2021)
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Kustermans, J., Svensson, T., Costa López, J., Blasenheim, T., & Hoffmann, A. (2021). Ritual and authority in world politics. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35(1), 2-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2021.1975647

The contributions to this Forum on Ritual and Authority in World Politics examine the role that ritual performances play in the constitution of positions of authority and the maintenance of relations of authority in historical and contemporary intern... Read More about Ritual and authority in world politics.