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Unipolar Dispensations: Exceptionalism, Empire, and the End of One America (2018)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, S. J. (2018). Unipolar Dispensations: Exceptionalism, Empire, and the End of One America. Political Theology, 20(1), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2018.1484986

Public and political discourse around the 2016 US Presidential election constructed it as a time of crisis for America. Yet, while over 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, religion’s role in this crisis has been marginalized. Analyzing... Read More about Unipolar Dispensations: Exceptionalism, Empire, and the End of One America.

The ‘hardy annual’: A History of India’s First UN Resolution (2017)
Journal Article
Thakur, V. (2017). The ‘hardy annual’: A History of India’s First UN Resolution. India Review, 16(4), 401-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2017.1346425

This article traces the history of India’s first resolution at the United Nations (UN). Introduced in 1946, “Treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa” became an annual item on the UN agenda until 1962 when it was merged with another India-sp... Read More about The ‘hardy annual’: A History of India’s First UN Resolution.

My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal (2017)
Book
Paliwal, A. (2017). My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal. Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685829.001.0001

The archetype of ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’, India’s political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplistic yet powerful geopol... Read More about My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal.

Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method: an Alternative Account of the Origins of IR (2017)
Journal Article
Thakur, V., Davis, A. E., & Vale, P. (2017). Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method: an Alternative Account of the Origins of IR. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 46(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829817711911

This article offers an alternative account of the origins of academic IR to the conventional Aberystwyth-centered one. Informed by a close reading of the archive, our narrative proposes that the ideas and method of what was to become IR were first de... Read More about Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method: an Alternative Account of the Origins of IR.

Zimbabwe's International Relations: Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State (2017)
Book
Gallagher, J. (2017). Zimbabwe's International Relations: Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316869529

Zimbabwe is a state that has undergone significant ruptures in its domestic and international politics in recent years. This book explores how Zimbabwean citizens have, under difficult circumstances, reconstructed ideas of their state by imagining th... Read More about Zimbabwe's International Relations: Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State.

Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique (2017)
Book
Sabaratnam, M. (2017). Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique. Rowman and Littlefield

Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? This book argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’. This book chall... Read More about Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique.

Images of Africa: creation, negotiation and subversion (2017)
Book
Gallagher, J. (Ed.). (2017). Images of Africa: creation, negotiation and subversion. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719091469.001.0001

Images of Africa challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continen... Read More about Images of Africa: creation, negotiation and subversion.

Civilising norms and Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis (2017)
Book Chapter
Gallagher, J. (2017). Civilising norms and Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis. In C. Epstein (Ed.), Against International Norms: postcolonial perspectives (57-73). Routledge

This chapter explores the meaning of civilisation in Africa, using psychoanalytic theory to understand its historical role in shaping structures of political authority. European ideas of civilisation have historically placed Africa on the outside, a... Read More about Civilising norms and Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis.

Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey (2016)
Journal Article
Marois, T., & Muñoz-Martínez, H. (2016). Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey. Research in political economy, 31, 165-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020160000031010

This article aims to expose the economic and political relations of power disguised in the concept of financial risk as institutionalized in post-crisis economic policies and practices. We do so by examining, from a historical materialist approach, t... Read More about Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey.

China in Africa: more than business? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Amoah, M. (2016, April). China in Africa: more than business?. Presented at LSE Africa Sumit 2016, LSE