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  Vol. 49 (2021)

  Published almost exactly twenty years after the publication of the first issue of the journal, Volume 49 of IAPSS Politikon contains five original contributions to Political Science, International Relations and European Studies.

  Carol-Ann Rouillard and Mireille Lalancette argue for improvements in political representation via an analysis of media speeches on gender parity in Canada. Esther Ng K. H. sets out to demonstrate that a better understanding of state decisions to retain its existing practices rather than adopt new ones can be gained via the concept of ontological security. Building on insights from deliberation theory, Oxana Pimenova delves into the subsidiarity principle in the EU as an opportunity for enhanced dialogue and understanding between EU and national institutions, provided that some improvements to the principle are implemented. Fernando Ursine Braga Silva provides preliminary empirical support for a new explanation for the split of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Paul Fricker presents an up-to-date picture of the cooperative as well as conflictual patterns of interaction between China and the US in Djibouti.

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  Vol. 48 (2021)

  From among the five contributions in this issue, three articles comprise a special section on 'Populisms, Hybrid Regimes and Political Change'. They represent memoirs from the first edition of the Leonardo Morlino Lecture Series that was organised in Mexico in November 2019. They are followed by a study of the prospects and pitfalls of a South African developmental state in regional comparative perspective, and by a book review on the perils of corruption and state capture in South Africa. Hence, the issue brings together Latin American and South African perspectives in particular. 

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  Vol. 47 (2020)

  While the COVID-19 pandemic may be the first reference point for a ‘contemporary challenge’, climate change has anything but disappeared in 2020. While the immediate effects of the pandemic might not persist in the long term, climate change remains an undisputedly central point of focus for social science research and thinking. Thus, Vol. 47 of IAPSS Politikon contains a special section on "Paths to Climate Justice", consisting of two articles and a research note.

  Melina Kotsinas studies disaster management and stakeholders working in this field in a Small Island Developing Nation, Antigua and Barbuda, following Hurricane Irma and how they understand and respond to crisis. Lisa Carroll discusses the fact that the current international legal system cannot ‘effectively manage and sufficiently protect’ people moving due to climate and that the issue surrounding the definition of people undertaking this type of movement is doctrinal as well as definitional. Lisa Nowag reviews past research on the links between environmental changes and violence as well arguments for and against the controversial climate-conflict nexus. 

  In addition to the special section, Chloé Bernadaux provides insights into the operation of consociational systems in Northern Ireland and Lebanon from the perspective of their capacity to prevent conflicts along ethnonational lines.

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  Vol. 46 (2020)

  Following an Editorial Note that summarizes an IAPSS Politikon webinar on 'Research and Education in Times of Pandemic', this issue contains three original articles and a book review. The first half of the issue consists of two articles employing interpretive methods (Ceren Çetinkaya) and critical theory (Ander Arredondo Chopitea). Çetinkaya studies one domain of the Turkish government’s efforts to reconstruct ‘a neo-Ottoman identity’, that of Ottoman-themed soap operas, juxtaposing this reconstruction to Turkey’s European identity that seeks affinity between Turkey and the European Union. Arredondo Chopitea contributes with an article asking whether development policies, in fact, can meet their intended aims to contribute to equality and global justice. 

  Subsequently, Hakan Sönmez analyses how various democracy indices capture democratic backsliding. He argues for approaching democracy indices with caution since they are based on complex measurements entailing a range of conceptual and methodological choices. The issue closes with Chetan Rana’s book review of an edited volume analysing the status quo and prospects for the ‘Indo-Pacific axis’.