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The impact of principal party strategies on the radical right: In search of a silver bullet? (2021)
Thesis
Mitchell, G. (2021). The impact of principal party strategies on the radical right: In search of a silver bullet?. (Thesis). Keele University

Since the 1980s, many Western European countries have witnessed the rise of the radical right. Much has been written on the ideology of these parties, the tactics they adopt, the sorts of people that vote for them, and the reasons behind their electo... Read More about The impact of principal party strategies on the radical right: In search of a silver bullet?.

Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect (2021)
Book Chapter
Nehushtan, Y. (2021). Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect. In The Palgrave Handbook on Toleration. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_54

This chapter explains why granting conscientious exemptions is almost always the outcome of toleration – and always the outcome of toleration – in cases where the exemption is granted from a law that reflects or enforces moral values. The chapter exp... Read More about Conscientious Exemptions: Between Toleration, Neutrality and Respect.

Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise? (2021)
Journal Article
Weston, S., & Mythen, G. (2021). Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 618-635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895821993525

This paper reports findings from a qualitative study investigating the efficacy and the effects of a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) awareness raising intervention with young people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of a multi-agency team... Read More about Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?.

Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes. (2020). Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework. Criminal Justice Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2020.1800179

Questions about when it is right for police forces to investigate alleged offences committed in the more or less distant past have become increasingly pressing. Recent widely publicized cases of child sexual abuse (CSA) and exploitation, sometimes in... Read More about Weighing Ethical Considerations in Proposed Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: A Response to Maslen and Paine’s Oxford CSA Framework.

Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X20927500

This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexu... Read More about Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms.

Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016 (2019)
Thesis
Nurberdiyev, S. (2019). Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016. (Thesis). Keele University

By developing a rigorous analytical framework, built on strategic subculture assumptions, this thesis contributes to the operationalization of strategic culture as an analytic perspective that can explain strategic behaviour. The thesis offers a taxo... Read More about Russian strategic culture after the Cold War: understanding Russia’s changing Foreign Policy towards Syria from a strategic subculture perspective, 1986-2016.

Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Holohan. (2019). Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.423

Taking as its starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatized reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis... Read More about Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric (2019)
Thesis
Tiplady, S. (2019). US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413134

This thesis investigates core aspects of campaign strategy, through content analysis of campaign rhetoric, to assess whether there is evidence that campaign strategy changes, rather than remains fixed, during presidential general election campaigns.... Read More about US Presidential campaign strategy 1960 - 2012: observing and explaining change in rhetoric.

How can the concept of parrhesia be used to challenge thepolitics of sovereign exceptionalism? (2018)
Thesis
Mongini, H. (2018). How can the concept of parrhesia be used to challenge thepolitics of sovereign exceptionalism?. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/418135

This research paper is one that seeks to contribute to the resistance debate that focuses on ‘life’ as a governmental practice of ‘sovereign exceptionalism’. Sovereign exceptionalism is a term given to encompass a wide-ranging literature with its key... Read More about How can the concept of parrhesia be used to challenge thepolitics of sovereign exceptionalism?.

An Exploration of the Contributions of African Feminism to the Development of International Human Rights (2018)
Thesis
Ige, R. A. (2018). An Exploration of the Contributions of African Feminism to the Development of International Human Rights. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/418468

This thesis explores a selection of African based activist, literary and scholarly women’s writings to consider whether one can identify African feminism contributions to the development of international human rights.
The purpose of the research is... Read More about An Exploration of the Contributions of African Feminism to the Development of International Human Rights.

Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners. In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (50-79). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch003

The recent association agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are meant to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreements between the EU and the three Eastern Partners. Their purpose is to deepen the political and economic ties bet... Read More about Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s Newly Concluded Association Agreements with the Eastern Partners.

Implementation and policy change: aspects of bus passenger transport in the U.K.
Thesis
Dudley, G. (1982). Implementation and policy change: aspects of bus passenger transport in the U.K

The dynamics of policy change are inevitably complex, and can involve inputs at all stages of the policy process. These stages are to some extent interdependent, and the expertise of the implementer, together with the usually long time-scale involved... Read More about Implementation and policy change: aspects of bus passenger transport in the U.K..

Intergovernmental cooperation in science and technology: the experience of the European Space Research Organisation and the European Space Vehicle Launcher Development Organisation 1960-1970
Thesis
Cairns, D. W. (1977). Intergovernmental cooperation in science and technology: the experience of the European Space Research Organisation and the European Space Vehicle Launcher Development Organisation 1960-1970

In 1960 the first soundings were taken which were to lead to the foundation of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) and the European Space Vehicle launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) some four years later.
In Part I, the growth of t... Read More about Intergovernmental cooperation in science and technology: the experience of the European Space Research Organisation and the European Space Vehicle Launcher Development Organisation 1960-1970.

The Aarhus Convention: towards a cosmopolitan international environmental politics
Thesis
Weaver, D. (2015). The Aarhus Convention: towards a cosmopolitan international environmental politics

This thesis investigates the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decisionmaking and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus). It assesses its normative contribution to International Environmental Politics (IEP). Vi... Read More about The Aarhus Convention: towards a cosmopolitan international environmental politics.