Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016) (2019)
Thesis
El Sayed, M. (2019). Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414941

The aim of this research is to examine how the Lebanese Sunni political actors frame intra-Sunni political division in Lebanon. The research draws on Max Weber’s “interpretivist” approach of understanding (Verstehen), which denotes that reality is so... Read More about Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016).

Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea (2019)
Journal Article
Bueger, C., Edmunds, T., & Ryan, B. (2019). Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea. International Affairs, 95(5), 971-978. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz145

In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article ‘Beyond seablindness: a new agenda for maritime security studies’, published in this journal in No... Read More about Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea.

Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities (2019)
Book
Doherty. (2019). Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities

Studies of the participants in "Fridays For Future" climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities.

Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism (2019)
Journal Article
Poole, E., Giraud, E., & de Quincey, E. (2019). Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.406

This paper sets out quantitative findings from a research project examining the dynamics of online counter-narratives against hate speech, focusing on #StopIslam, a hashtag that spread racialized hate speech and disinformation directed towards Islam... Read More about Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism.

The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism (2019)
Book
Gokay. (2019). The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism

This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the tran... Read More about The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism.

The European Commission and Education Policy (2018)
Book
(2018). The European Commission and Education Policy

With a focus on the creation of an EU level for Education Policy after the establishment of the Lisbon Agenda, this book identifies the domains of Education Policy which have been Europeanised and how the interactions between supranational and nation... Read More about The European Commission and Education Policy.

Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences. Party Politics, 731-742. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817697630

This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties' policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the prefer... Read More about Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences.

How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa. Environmental Science and Policy, 9 -15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.009

Promoting inclusive and sustainable economic and social development whilst simultaneously adapting to climate change impacts and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions – Climate Compatible Development (CCD) – requires coherent policy approaches that spa... Read More about How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa.

Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2017). Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times

Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.

The case for modest constitutional instrumentalism (2016)
Journal Article
Nehushtan, Y. (2016). The case for modest constitutional instrumentalism

‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee. (2016). ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’. In Recognition and Global Politics: Critical encounters between state and world. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784993337.003.0003

This chapter critically assesses the ability of Nancy Fraser’s status model of recognition to foster an international, or ‘cosmopolitan’, feminist theory of recognition. Fraser’s tripartite account of recognition, redistribution and political represe... Read More about ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’.

The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation? (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?. In The Institutionalisation of EU-US Relations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Trade and Data Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50221-2_4

This chapter explores the forms of governance that the EU–US PNR, TFTP, Privacy Shield and Umbrella Agreement have established in the transatlantic data space by looking at the relevant rules, procedures and institutions. It concludes that transatlan... Read More about The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?.

State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social (2016)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2016). State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social. Critical Studies on Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2016.1163921

Taking cue from Foucault’s Society Must be Defended and drawing on the Lacanian concept of fantasy this paper puts forwards an analytic of in/security by focusing on the fantasy of congruency of state, nation and society. I argue that this ideal of c... Read More about State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social.

Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics (2016)
Journal Article
Böker, M. (2016). Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics. Contemporary Political Theory, 16, 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2016.11

I contend that the popular ‘mini-publics’ approach to implementing deliberation in practice is unable to realize deliberative democracy in a way that fulfills the deliberative democratic standard of legitimacy. Deliberative democratic legitimacy requ... Read More about Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics.

US Climate Change Policy (2016)
Book
(2016). US Climate Change Policy

The United States is often perceived as sceptical, if not hostile, to the need to address man-made climate change. US government policy has undoubtedly disappointed environmentalists and scientists who believe more concerted action is needed, but a c... Read More about US Climate Change Policy.

Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda. Policy Sciences, 49, 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-015-9238-5

The systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory has shifted the focus away from seeking to design separate, internally deliberative ‘mini-publics’ and towards a new appreciation of their external, systemic quality. Yet, so far, such accounts have... Read More about Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda.

Climate Change in World Politics (2015)
Book
Vogler. (2015). Climate Change in World Politics. Springer

John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). He considers how the international system treats the problem of climate change, analysing the ways in which this has... Read More about Climate Change in World Politics.

Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies (2015)
Journal Article
Ormerod, R., Bessant, S., & Robinson, Z. (2015). Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies. Environmental Education Research, 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2014.993933

This paper explores the ideological and the practical relationship between neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) and the sustainable development agenda of western higher education. Using the United Kingdom and specifically English universitie... Read More about Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies.

Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713 (2014)
Book
Talbott. (2014). Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315654614

Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.

Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration (2014)
Book Chapter
(2014). Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration. In Europeanization and European Integration (15 - 28 (14)). https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325501_2

Europeanization, understood as domestic change in which the EU is wholly or partially involved, has added an important dimension to comparative analysis of domestic European politics. Indeed, whether it is electoral politics or policy development, th... Read More about Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration.