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.