International Politics

We generate international agenda setting work on the role and influence of international organisations, networks, ideas, and policy agendas. Our particular focus is on human rights and human security. We are at the forefront of critical academic and policymaker debates on the global governance of human rights, including the analysis of the gendered institutions, networks, and practices that influence foreign policy, peace, and security, the actors and organisations fostering conflict and cooperation in Middle East politics, and the normative foundations and limits of a human right to freedom of religion.

This work contributes to a wider intellectual vision in Politics: to be at the heart of international and interdisciplinary political research. We focus on specific global policy problems in which Politics as a discipline has a pivotal role. Specific issues include human rights and global justice, climate change and resource conflict, and a changing global order that has prompted diverse responses, from transnational cooperation to new demands for constitutional and political change. We provide insights from disciplinary specialisms - including public policy, international conflict and cooperation, human rights and area studies - to support multi-disciplinary collaborations.

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Deberdt R, DiCarlo J & Park H (2024) Standardizing "green" extractivism: Chinese & Western environmental, social, and governance instruments in the critical mineral sector. The Extractive Industries and Society, 19, Art. No.: 101516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101516

Stranded Assets

Park H (2024) Stranded Assets. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 198-202. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209204.ch37

China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise

Park H (2023) China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise. Global Environmental Politics, 23 (4), pp. 94-118. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00707

Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas

Schapper A & Dee M (2024) Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas. International Studies Quarterly, 68 (1), Art. No.: sqad105. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad105

Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects

Bartmann M, Halsband A & Schapper A (2023) Climate Justice: Ethical Aspects and Policy Aspects. Ethik in den Biowissenschaften – Sachstandsberichte des DRZE. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber/ Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783495993798

Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations

Schapper A & Bliss C (2023) Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations. International Relations, 37 (3), pp. 514-537. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117823119329

Public Reason and the Burdens of Citizenship A Case for Toleration

Baumeister A (2020) Public Reason and the Burdens of Citizenship A Case for Toleration. In: Drerup J & Schweiger G (eds.) Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism. London: Routledge, pp. 129-145. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015123

Fault Lines and Fractures in the 2020 Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh War: Silence, Absence, and Erasure in Middle East Studies - Introduction

Kasbarian S (2022) Fault Lines and Fractures in the 2020 Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh War: Silence, Absence, and Erasure in Middle East Studies - Introduction. International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Refuge in the 'homeland': The Syrians in Armenia

Kasbarian S (2020) Refuge in the 'homeland': The Syrians in Armenia. In: Laycock J & Piana F (eds.) Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and intervention from the 1890s to the present. Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 164-180. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526142207/

Understanding International Politics: the student toolkit

Dee M (2024) Understanding International Politics: the student toolkit. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understanding-international-politics-9781350381650/

Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order

Dee M (2024) Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order. Contemporary Security Policy, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2024.2373658

Between role adaptation and contestation: the UK’s status as a nuclear weapon state after Brexit

Dee M & Kienzle B (2023) Between role adaptation and contestation: the UK’s status as a nuclear weapon state after Brexit. International Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00463-7

Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Selby J, Daoust G & Hoffmann C (2022) Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/divided-environments/0621F20A4464C4E05BF76980BBF25D3F

A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean

Hoffmann C & Ergenc C (2023) A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 25 (2), pp. 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2022.2131079

Procedural Rights for Nature - A Pathway to Sustainable Decarbonisation?

Schapper A, Hoffmann C & Lee P (2022) Procedural Rights for Nature - A Pathway to Sustainable Decarbonisation?. Third World Quarterly, 43 (5), pp. 1197-1216. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2057293

Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in conflict-affected states

Adhikari M (2023) Non-Western engagement in peace processes and the rise of ‘hedging’ by elites in conflict-affected states. Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

The BRI as an Iterative Project: Influencing the Politics of Conflict-Affected States and Being Shaped by the Risks of Fragile Settings

Adhikari M (2023) The BRI as an Iterative Project: Influencing the Politics of Conflict-Affected States and Being Shaped by the Risks of Fragile Settings. Journal of Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2238630

Framing ASEAN's Cooperation with India and China on the Myanmar Post-coup Crisis

Adhikari M (2023) Framing ASEAN's Cooperation with India and China on the Myanmar Post-coup Crisis. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 45 (2). https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/7863

How can policy and policymaking foster climate justice? A qualitative systematic review

Cairney P, Timonina I & Stephan H (2023) How can policy and policymaking foster climate justice? A qualitative systematic review. Open Research Europe, 3, Art. No.: 51. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15719.2

Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland's Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework

Stephan H (2020) Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland's Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework. Review of Policy Research, 37 (1), pp. 64-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12365

Islamic State and Game of Thrones: The Global Among Tradition, Identity, and the Politics of Spectacle

Saade B (2020) Islamic State and Game of Thrones: The Global Among Tradition, Identity, and the Politics of Spectacle. International Journal of Communication, 14, pp. 1911-1932. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9864

Bilateral economic diplomacy between South Korea and Iraq

Gul Z (2024) Bilateral economic diplomacy between South Korea and Iraq. Asian Politics & Policy, 16 (1), Art. No.: 7–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12724

The new era in the continuum of China and Iraq's relationship

Gul Z (2022) The new era in the continuum of China and Iraq's relationship. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 8 (1), pp. 348-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221140690

Researching Silence: A Methodological Inquiry

Schweiger, E., & Tomiak, K. (2022). Researching Silence: A Methodological Inquiry. Millennium, 50(3), 623-646. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298221083999

Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid.

Schweiger, E. (2022). Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid. European Journal of International Relations, 28(1), 110-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661211053830

Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges

Crawford NJW, Michael K & Mikulewicz M (eds.) (2023) Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges. Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Justice-in-the-Majority-World-Vulnerability-Resistance-and-Diverse/Crawford-Michael-Mikulewicz/p/book/9781032101712

Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship

Mikulewicz M, Caretta MA, Sultana F & Crawford NJW (2023) Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship. Environmental Politics, 32 (7), pp. 1275-1286. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2172869

The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change

Crawford NJW (2021) The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change. McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series, 6. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/urbanization-of-forced-displacement--the-products-9780228008187.php

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