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Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics (2014)
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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.

Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War (2014)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Meyer-Sahling, J., & 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.

Party system closure and openness: Conceptualization, operationalization and validation (2014)
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Casal Bertoa, F., & Enyedi, Z. (2016). Party system closure and openness: Conceptualization, operationalization and validation. Party Politics, 22(3), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068814549340

The degree of closure of the governmental arena is a central aspect of the stabilization of party systems, and yet little systematic effort has been devoted to its operationalization. The article proposes a new index, examines its reliability and val... Read More about Party system closure and openness: Conceptualization, operationalization and validation.

Hegel and global politics: communitarianism or cosmopolitanism? (2014)
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Burns, T. (2014). Hegel and global politics: communitarianism or cosmopolitanism?. Journal of International Political Theory, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088214539409

This article discusses Hegel’s views on global politics by relating them to the ‘communitarianism versus cosmopolitanism’ debate. I distinguish between three different theoretical positions and three different readings of Hegel, which I associate wit... Read More about Hegel and global politics: communitarianism or cosmopolitanism?.

The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs (2014)
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Cockayne, J. (2014). The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs. Journal of Strategic Studies, 37(5), 736-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2014.901911

Confronted by non-conventional non-state military forces enjoying high – but very localized – social legitimacy, the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) struggled between 2004 and 2007 to embed the use of force in a larger strategy of state co... Read More about The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs.

The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics (2014)
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Ryan, J. B., & Milazzo, C. (2015). The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics. Political Behavior, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-014-9276-2

This paper explains changes in partisanship among Catholics in the last quarter of the 20th Century using a theory of partisan change centered on the contexts in which Catholics lived. Catholics were part of the post-New Deal Democratic coalition, bu... Read More about The South, the suburbs, and the Vatican too: explaining partisan change among Catholics.

Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014)
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Datta, M. N., & Bales, K. (2014). Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model. Human Rights Quarterly, 36(2), 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2014.0025

Since the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and the United Nations Palermo Protocols of 2000, there has been an increased focus on the magnitude and complexity of modern day slavery. Yet, surprisingly, little empirical... Read More about Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model.

Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis (2014)
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Bieler, A. (2014). Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis. Global Labour Journal, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154

The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements... Read More about Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis.

“Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption (2014)
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Heywood, P. M., & Rose, J. (2014). “Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption. Journal of Public Policy, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X14000099

The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing world leaders, it remains as widespread tod... Read More about “Close but no cigar”: the measurement of corruption.

‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece (2014)
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Clements, B., Nanou, K., & Verney, S. (in press). ‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece. Journal of European Integration / Revue d'Intégration Européenne, 36, https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2014.885753

This article analyses whether and how public opinion towards the European Union (EU) in Greece has changed in the context of the current Eurozone crisis. It provides the first detailed treatment of how the crisis has affected citizens’ views in a tra... Read More about ‘We no longer love you, but we don’t want to leave you’: the Eurozone crisis and popular Euroscepticism in Greece.

John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion (2014)
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McCabe, H. (2014). John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion. Informal Logic, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v34i1.3869

In his youth, John Stuart Mill followed his father’s philosophy of persuasion but, in 1830, Mill adopted a new philosophy of persuasion, trying to lead people incrementally towards the truth from their original stand-points rather than engage them an... Read More about John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion.

Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education (2014)
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Stevens, D. (in press). Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 33(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-014-9403-x

Proponents of environmentalist views often urge the teaching of such views and the inculcation of ‘green’ values within the educational curriculum of schools as a key component of achieving their ends. It might seem that modern versions of political... Read More about Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education.

From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies (2014)
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Bolleyer, N., & Trumm, S. (2014). From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies. European Journal of Political Research, 53(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12051

While direct state funding of political parties has been a prominent theme in cross-national research over the last decade, we still know little about party strategies to access state resources that are not explicitly earmarked for partisan usage. Th... Read More about From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies.

Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’? (2014)
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Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2014). Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?. Globalizations, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2014.860334

With capitalist social relations emerging in a prior system of absolutist states in Europe, the outward expansion of capitalism through conditions of uneven and combined development became dependent on the existence of multiple political entities. St... Read More about Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?.

Why do we need ‘myth-busting’ in the study of Sino–African relations? (2014)
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Hirono, M., & Suzuki, S. (2014). Why do we need ‘myth-busting’ in the study of Sino–African relations?. Journal of Contemporary China, 23(87), https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2013.843889

The literature on Sino–African relations has debated whether or not China's growing presence is a threat to Western or African interests, and has come to the conclusion that China's behavior is not uniquely immoral. Many countries, including Western... Read More about Why do we need ‘myth-busting’ in the study of Sino–African relations?.