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9 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Third World Quarterly
Traditional multilateralism in the shadow of bilateralism: UN emanations in the international investment agreement regime
AbstractMultilateralism is widely contested, with formal intergovernmental organisations (FIGOs) perceived as gridlocked and in decline. This has led to the proliferation of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) and the fragmentation of global governance. However, existing classifications of FIGOs and IIGOs struggle to account for emanations – second-order international
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15 May 2025 • Journal Article • Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Spontaneous Contact and Social Resilience Following Eruption of Interethnic Violence in Ethnically Mixed Settings
AbstractDoes spontaneous contact between individuals from different ethnonational groups affect their social resilience, specifically their ability to avoid escalation and radicalization following eruptions of ethnic violence? To address this question, we conducted a series of studies in mixed Jewish–Palestinian cities and academic settings. Study 1, based on data collected
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29 Apr 2025 • Preprint • Social Science Research Network
Offshoring Migration Policy: Migrant Responses to Restrictive Policies in Transit Countries
AbstractTo curtail irregular immigration, Global North countries increasingly externalize their migration controls, promoting movement restrictions along transit corridors. Proponents claim that restrictive controls discourage migrants from continuing onward, reducing overall immigrant inflows. We argue that this conventional wisdom neglects the possibility that externalization
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2 Apr 2025 • Journal Article
International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn
AbstractSignificant changes in social sciences often herald changes in legal theory, including in international legal theory. In light of the cognitive turn in social sciences, this volume seeks to explore the implications of this ‘turn’ for international legal theories. Cognitive and behavioural studies are making inroads into international law literature and international
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Apr 2025 • Journal Article • The Journal of Politics
The Cultural Origins of Populism
AbstractThe electoral success of right-wing populist parties is often attributed to disaffection among certain voters. But while economic explanations for this disaffection are theoretically clear and quantifiable, explanations centered on cultural factors offer accounts that are more vague and harder to evaluate empirically. We address this problem by distinguishing theoretically
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27 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Politics
The humanitarian dilemma reaches Europe's doorstep: The Belarus/Poland border crisis
AbstractThe article employs the theoretical framework of the humanitarian dilemma in the context of a political non-violent conflict. We analyse the conditions for the humanitarian dilemma where within the structure of mass media and well-established international human rights regime, actors – mainly human rights organisations seeking to identify human rights violations – can
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18 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Global Policy
Collision Course: How Iran and Israel Brought the Middle East to the Brink of War
AbstractThis policy analysis asks: what has caused and now sustains the violent escalation cycle that is re-defining the Middle East and how will this all end? It analyses Iran and Israel's grand strategies. It argues that both employ force to achieve strategic depth and both bifurcate the region into two blocs doomed to constantly fight for hegemony. Equally, they both share
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9 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Journal of European Integration
Populism in power and regional (dis-)integration: charting paths of populist regionalism in Europe and Latin America
AbstractHow do populists approach regional integration from the government? Existing research shows that a rhetoric backlash against regional organizations and their bureaucracies is central to contemporary populist leaderships, which increasingly project the ideational antagonism between ‘the people’ and ‘the elites’ onto the regional level. However, the various ways in which
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4 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Survival
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler
AbstractFor decades, US–Israel relations survived and thrived at least partly because of the two states’ commitment to the regional status quo. In 2020, the Trump administration’s promotion of the Abraham Accords demonstrated its ideological sympathy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government and reinforced Israel’s determination to pressure the
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1 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Middle East Policy
Myth Busting in a Post-Assad Syria
AbstractThis article challenges common misconceptions about the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It debunks the notion of a simplistic rebel/regime dichotomy and instead delineates the diversity of actors and interests in a post-Assad Syria. It also critiques the perception that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham won a decisive battlefield victory and illustrates that this was as
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