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Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics (2014)
Journal Article
Mumford, A. (2015). Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics. International Politics, 52(1), https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2014.40

Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision-making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’ we have arguably see... Read More about Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics.

The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (2014)
Book
Ritter, D. (2014). The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199658329.001.0001

Revolutions no longer stand to be recognized. In contrast to the processes of political and social change spearheaded—and romanticized—by revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, contemporary revolutions no longer require violent struggle in order to secu... Read More about The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (137-153). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.ch10

How do we measure some thing that is, by its very nature, largely hidden? This is the conundrum that faces all who have attempted to develop a means of measuring corruption. Given the seemingly intractable nature of this problem, the obvious question... Read More about Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits.

Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption. In P. M. Heywood (Ed.), Routledge handbook of political corruption (1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175.intro

Corruption is one of the most high-profile issues in the contemporary world. According to the 2011 ‘World Speaks’ surveys, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, corruption was the world’s most talked-about problem, ahead of extreme povert... Read More about Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption.

Routledge handbook of political corruption (2014)
Book
Heywood, P. M. (2014). Routledge handbook of political corruption. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315739175

Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many... Read More about Routledge handbook of political corruption.

Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War (2014)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (2016). Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War. Intelligence and National Security, 31(2), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2014.978549

Lessons for the intelligence community were publicly identified in a 1983 report by Lord Franks and 2004 report by Lord Butler. However, little is known of the lessons learned during the twenty years between the two. This article draws upon two newly... Read More about Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War.

Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron (2014)
Journal Article
Daddow, O. J. (2015). Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron. Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12204

This article investigates how British European policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an ‘outsider’ tradition of thinking about ‘Europe’ in British foreign policy dating from imperial times to the present. The article begins by de... Read More about Interpreting the outsider tradition in British European policy speeches from Thatcher to Cameron.

The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy (2014)
Journal Article
Cormac, R. (in press). The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy. Journal of Cold War Studies, 16(3), https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00469

This article examines Great Britain’s approach to covert action during the formative years of British Cold War intelligence operations, 1950–1951. Rather than shy away from such activity in the wake of the failure in Albania in the late 1940s, the Br... Read More about The pinprick approach: Whitehall’s top-secret anti-communist committee and the evolution of British covert action strategy.

Understanding the complexities of responding to child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia (2014)
Journal Article
Davy, D. (2014). Understanding the complexities of responding to child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 34(11-12), 793 - 816. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-10-2013-0103

Purpose – The market in trafficked children bought and sold for sexual exploitation is one of the most inhumane transnational crimes that appear to have been facilitated by globalisation and its many effects, such as growing disparity in wealth betwe... Read More about Understanding the complexities of responding to child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia.

A case of partial convergence: the Europeanization of central government in Central and Eastern Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Van Stolk, C. (2015). A case of partial convergence: the Europeanization of central government in Central and Eastern Europe. Public Administration, 93(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12122

This article compares the Europeanization of central government in four Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia. Using a largeNsurvey of ministerial civil servants, it finds that the Europeanization of ce... Read More about A case of partial convergence: the Europeanization of central government in Central and Eastern Europe.