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  • Vol. 19 No. 3 (2019)

    This issue coincides with the launch of the journal’s new website. It opens with a special section drawn from the 2018 IAPSS Academic Convention. Francisca Sassetti examines how citizen-led organizations in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana use social media to crowdsource election monitoring, and what this means for electoral transparency. Baptiste Brodard shows how Islamic grassroots organizations in Switzerland have developed innovative social work in response to exclusion and radicalization. Beyond the special section, Andrew Devine analyzes how China uses the World Internet Conference to promote cyber sovereignty and reshape the norms of global internet governance. Velomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaharavo traces how metanarratives, from socialism to liberalism, have shaped the recurrence of conflict in Madagascar since 1947.

  • Vol. 19 No. 2 (2019)

    This issue announces the winners of the first IAPSS Politikon Best Article Award and reports on a year of editorial work. Its contributions share a concern with how knowledge and power shape each other. David Guignion examines how Jordan Peterson appeals to science and philosophy in his campaign against Canada’s Bill C-16, and where that appeal falls short. AJ Golio shows that electoral accountability after 1994 reduced the human cost of South Africa’s national parks for rural communities. Bernardino Leon-Reyes argues that critical terrorism studies needs a neo-Weberian understanding of rationality to challenge the portrayal of the terrorist as irrational. In a research note, Maxim Chupilkin calls for attention to downward social mobility. Marzio Di Feo closes the issue with a review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus.

  • Vol. 19 No. 1 (2019)

    This issue introduces the IAPSS Politikon Best Article Award. It also opens with a special section by members of the IAPSS Academic Think Tank and Academic Committee, continuing the journal’s tradition of publishing research from within the Association. Lora Hadzhidimova and Aaron Stacey ask whether right-wing or left-wing populism in European Union member states responds to citizens’ leading national concerns. Lora Hadzhidimova then traces how the scholarly debate on European integration has evolved, from early questions about whether institutions matter to the current state of the field. Rigina Syssoyeva tests theories of enlargement on Armenia’s and Kyrgyzstan’s entry into the Eurasian Economic Union. Joshua A. Schwartz challenges a leading realist account of voluntary union through the overlooked case of the United Arab Republic.

  • Vol. 18 No. 4 (2018)

    The closing issue of 2018 traces how global forces meet local and national politics. Jessica Neafie finds that foreign direct investment can reduce access to clean water in developing countries, as foreign investors use and pollute a shared public good. Paola Imperatore follows local campaigns against infrastructure projects in Italy and shows how activists dismissed as NIMBYs connect their struggles to wider, global critiques.

    Adil Nussipov explains why international organizations with middling authority open their policy processes to transnational actors more than those with high or low authority. Fiammetta Colombo examines how economic globalization and the 2008 crisis fed the rise of nationalism in the Western Balkans. 

  • Vol. 18 No. 3 (2018)

    This issue explores the limits of established frameworks when they meet hard cases. James Ferencsik asks how effective the Financial Action Task Force’s campaign against terrorist financing has really been, beyond its success in securing states’ formal cooperation. Gayane Shakhmuradyan finds that electoral alliances in Armenia’s 2017 parliamentary elections did not follow the ideological logic that established theory predicts. Alexander Stoffel argues that critical security studies has failed to see violence against queer people because it cannot recognize them as intelligible subjects. David W. Choi’s review of Yascha Mounk’s The People vs. Democracy closes the issue by asking why liberal democracy is under strain.

  • Vol. 18 No. 2 (2018)

    This issue opens with a reflection on the value of rigorous science at a time when the existence of objective facts is itself contested. Its articles span comparative politics, feminist theory, development and the history of political thought. Benjamin Tyler Leigh shows that the effect of civic education on political participation depends on the characteristics of each country. Tarsis Daylan Brito reads the 1995 Beijing Conference on women’s rights through Derrida’s concept of undecidability to propose a different strategy for global feminism. M. Rafiqul Islam argues that rainwater harvesting could ease both water scarcity and economic poverty in coastal Bangladesh. Zachary E. Shufro returns to Machiavelli’s Discourses to show how he used his Florentine contemporaries, Savonarola and Soderini among them, to define good and evil intentions in the founding of a state.

  • Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018)

    This issue asks how power works in places where it is easy to overlook. Elizabeth Wright moves beyond Orwell’s Big Brother to trace the expansion of domestic surveillance in the post-9/11 United States, and warns that the national security state carries authoritarian tendencies. Shayna Servillas draws on Robert Putnam’s two-level game to show that even powerful domestic actors in foreign policy are bounded by international constraints. Frederik Gremler uses multilevel modelling to explore the link between the rule of law and generalized trust.

    The issue then turns to contested public debates and protest. Johannes Carl Busse examines the heated German debate on shared parenting, where the line between science and advocacy has become hard to draw. Helal Mohammed Khan revisits the 2013 Hefazat-e-Islam protests in Bangladesh through Gramsci, Scott and Mandela to ask what they teach about counter-hegemonic mobilization.

  • Vol. 17 No. 4 (2017)

  • Vol. 17 No. 3 (2017)

  • Vol. 17 No. 2 (2017)

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