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

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)
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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.

Routledge handbook of political corruption (2014)
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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.

Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
Book Chapter

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.

Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
Book Chapter

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.

Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War (2014)
Journal Article

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Russian military capabilities after 20 years of reform (2014)
Journal Article

Despite widespread perceptions, Russia is close to having the military it needs.

Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014)
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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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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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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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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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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.