Vol. 24 No. 1 (2024)

This issue covers international relations, comparative politics and political theory, and makes a case for interdisciplinary work in political science. Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe examines how non-state actors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region have organized around gender security. Drawing on interviews and policy documents, she argues for a socio-historical approach to regional organization that recognizes the role of civil society alongside states. Cara McLaughlin analyzes how Scottish political parties frame the issues they own on Twitter and Facebook before elections. She shows that parties use threat and victim frames strategically, in ways shaped by their parliamentary strength and whether they are in government.

In the Conversations section, Vladimir Rosas-Salazar reads Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) as an allegory of apartheid-era segregation, showing how science fiction can engage with historical injustice. The issue closes with two book reviews. Samuel De Brouwer reviews Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics, which introduces Gauchet’s theory of democracy to English-language readers. Vojtěch Pohanka reviews Sarah Engler’s Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and Their Struggle for Survival.