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French Troops in Africa (2020)
Digital Artefact
Amoah, M. (2020). French Troops in Africa

Michael Amoah Speaks to Al Jazeera on French Troops Being Deployed to West Africa

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.

Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches (2019)
Book Chapter
Sabaratnam, M. (2019). Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches. In J. Baylis, S. Smith, & P. Owens (Eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections (2019)
Journal Article
Amoah, M. (2019). Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections. African Affairs, 119(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz023

Sleight of hand in manipulating the computation of results has become the new might for deciding who wins presidential elections. It appears that whoever controls the computation exercises a right to take advantage and win, and whoever loses or relin... Read More about Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections.

A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process (2019)
Journal Article
Paliwal, A. (2019). A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process. Asian Security, 16(2), 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14799855.2019.1665515

The US president Donald Trump pitched India’s participation as being central to his Afghanistan policy in 2017. Yet, as the US has sought a negotiated settlement with the Afghan Taliban, there is little clarity on how India seeks to deal with its inc... Read More about A Cautious Balance - Explaining India’s Approach towards Afghanistan’s Peace Process.

From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India (2019)
Journal Article
Dhital, P. (2019). From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(3), 452-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1596778

This paper discusses the efforts of two Indian Muslim journalists, Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) and Aziz Burney (1952–), to use and overcome the constraints of direct and indirect censorship in order to address a community (qaum) conceived in their ow... Read More about From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India.

The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019)
Book
Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501

Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist... Read More about The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa.

Neoliberalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Eagleton-Pierce, M. (2019). Neoliberalism. In T. M. Shaw, L. C. Mahrenbach, R. Modi, & X. Yi-Chong (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy (119-134). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45443-0

The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy. In A. Kulnazarova, & V. Popovski (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace (461-476). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78905-7_22

The historical and religious roots, transformations and current manifestations of attitudes to peace and peacebuilding in Eastern Orthodox cultures have attracted less thorough investigation and attention than their Western Christian counterparts to... Read More about The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge (2018)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2019). Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge. Geopolitics, 24(2), 444-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1549035

In this article I read a selection of Pashto literatures as critical thought about geopolitics. Drawing on Michael Shapiro’s concept of aesthetic subjects, as well as on border theory, I argue that the authors, the content, and the literary networks... Read More about Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge.

Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah (2018)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2018). Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah. Review of International Studies, 44(5), 882-901. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210518000335

This paper draws on a Kleinian psychoanalytic reading of Hegel’s theory of the struggle for recognition to explore the role of international misrecognition in the creation of state subjectivity. It focuses on Ghana’s early years, when international r... Read More about Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah.

Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted (2018)
Book
Rivas, A.-M., & Browne, B. C. (Eds.). (2018). Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337683.001.0001

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as... Read More about Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted.