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.