Vol. 24 No. 2 (2024)

This issue examines sovereignty, colonial legacies and identity across global, national and local politics. Lala Jafarova analyzes how the proposed WHO pandemic treaty balances national sovereignty against global public health. Judy El Baba traces how the colonial legacies of the French Mandate continue to shape Lebanon’s sectarian institutions. In a research note, Catalina Catana and Simen Ekeberg offer a decolonial critique of international law through the lens of Israel’s war on Gaza. In another, Sung Jun Han argues that democracy is better served by fostering multiple, distinct social identities than by making identities more flexible.

In the Conversations section, Stephanie Mae Pedron makes the case for extending voting rights to non-citizens in the United States, and Abel Polese offers practical advice to scholars from the Global South on the barriers they face in academic publishing. Two book reviews close the issue. Georgy Slavin-Rudakov reviews Julie A. Cassiday’s Russian Style, and Maria Tarasenko reviews Leta Hong Fincher’s Betraying Big Brother.