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The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952 (2023)
Journal Article
Lomas, D., & Murphy, C. J. (2023). The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 34(3), 433-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2023.2239638

The protection of diplomats, embassies and sensitive information has always been an important aspect of diplomacy. Today, security is an accepted norm of day-to-day diplomatic work, yet the importance of security in the UK Foreign Office was not alwa... Read More about The Foreign Office ‘Thought Police’: Foreign Office Security, the Security Department and the ‘Missing Diplomats’, 1940 – 1952.

Expanding and protecting human rights from space (2023)
Journal Article
Bales, K. (2023). Expanding and protecting human rights from space. Digital War, 5(1-2), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42984-023-00064-x

The area of surveillance of human activities from above is fraught with concerns and controversy. Such surveillance is clearly being used in ways that invade human lives and often put those lives in danger. At the same time, there is an argument for... Read More about Expanding and protecting human rights from space.

The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective (2023)
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Landman, T., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (2023). The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective. Political Geography, 106, Article 102957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102957

Since its appearance in Wuhan (China) in late December 2019, the geographical spread of COVID-19 and its constituent waves varied in pace and intensity around the world. Responses to the pandemic also varied across the world with high variation in ca... Read More about The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective.

Buying Taiwan? The Limitations of Mainland Chinese Cross-Strait Direct Investments as a Tool of Economic Statecraft (2023)
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Lee, C.-Y., & Knoerich, J. (2024). Buying Taiwan? The Limitations of Mainland Chinese Cross-Strait Direct Investments as a Tool of Economic Statecraft. China Quarterly, 257, 202-221. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001029

Chinese cross-border investments are often assumed to be state-driven and Beijing’s tool of economic statecraft. However, corresponding evidence remains inconclusive. This article examines mainland Chinese direct investments in Taiwan and finds that... Read More about Buying Taiwan? The Limitations of Mainland Chinese Cross-Strait Direct Investments as a Tool of Economic Statecraft.

Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election (2023)
Journal Article
Trumm, S., Milazzo, C., & Duggan, A. (2023). Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election. Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957231186384

The 2019 General Election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to how parties and their leaders campaigned in the run up to the polling day. Using original leaflet dat... Read More about Parliamentary candidates and their campaign messages at the 2019 General Election.

Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists (2023)
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Búzás, Z. I., & Meier, A. A. (2023). Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists. Security Studies, 32(4-5), 680-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2230882

How can we make sense of Western states’ nondesignation of white supremacists as terrorists compared to other actors engaged in similar political violence? This article offers three arguments and supports them with rich case studies of designation in... Read More about Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists.

Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms (2023)
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Holland, B. (in press). Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms. History of European Ideas, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2023.2233060

This article expounds Samuel von Pufendorf’s evolving theory of multiple monarchy, from the publication of his early work on the form of the Holy Roman Empire, through his natural jurisprudence, to his historical accounts of European statesmanship. A... Read More about Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms.

Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle (2023)
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Poljak, Ž., & Walter, A. S. (2024). Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle. Party Politics, 30(5), 920-933. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231188476

Studies examining parties’ attack behaviour, also called negative campaigning, largely neglect temporal dynamics. Therefoe, this paper examines how the electoral cycle, the period between two elections, impacts parties’ attack behaviour in parliament... Read More about Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle.

The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986-2018) (2023)
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Kölling, M., Toubeau, S., & Godoy, D. Z. (2024). The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986-2018). Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 54(1), 88-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjad027

This article studies the determinants of tax innovation in Spain's Common Regime Autonomous Communities (ACs) over the period 1986-2018, across the different types of taxes included in their 'own taxes'. Our central finding is that the introduction o... Read More about The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986-2018).