• Too crooked to be good? Trade-offs in the electoral punishment of malfeasance and corruption

  Breitenstein, Sofia; Hernández, Enrique (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

  While elections are an instrument to hold politicians accountable, corrupt politicians are often re-elected. A potential explanation for this paradox is that citizens trade-off integrity for competence. Voters may forgive ...
• The European Union’s securitisation of global health: was COVID-19 a Zeitenwende?

  Fernández, Óscar (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  Almost 30 years since the Maastricht Treaty provided an explicit legal basis in the health realm, the European Union (EU) declared global health an “essential pillar” of its external action. Yet, it is still seeking to ...
• Tras el velo del antiterrorismo

  Daniels, Lesley-Ann (CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), 2016)
• Is the EU’s trade policy aligning with America’s trade policy?

  Eliasson, L. Johan; Costa, Oriol; Garcia-Duran, Patricia (Kluwer Law International, 2023)

  A core principle of the liberal international order (LIO) established by Europe and the United States (US) after World War II was separating security from economic issues as much as possible. However, since 2016 this has ...
• An inflection point or business as usual? Secessionism as state contestation in Ukraine

  Sanjaume Calvet, Marc; Daniels, Lesley-Ann (Oxford University Press, 2024)

  Does the Russian war in Ukraine presage a change in the rules of the game for secessionisms around the globe? In this article, we explore how the Russian war in Ukraine and the contested international order from which it ...
• “We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds

  Hanaček, Ksenija; Tran, Dalena; Landau, Arielle; Sanz, Teresa; Thiri, May Aye; Navas, Grettel; Del Bene, Daniela; Liu, Juan; Walter, Mariana; Lopez, Aida; Roy, Brototi; Fanari, Eleonora; Martinez-Alier, Joan (Springer, 2024)

  This article analyzes the global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds. To do so, we rely on socio-ecological confict data from the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice. Over 1800 cases involving resistance to the ...
• Navigating financial cycles: economic growth, bureaucratic autonomy, and regulatory governance in emerging markets

  Coban, Mehmet Kerem; Apaydin, Fulya (Wiley, 2024)

  Political decisions over economic growth policies influence the degree of bureaucratic autonomy and regulatory governance dynamics. Yet, our understanding of these processes in the Global South is somewhat limited. The ...
• Individualization and collectivization in contexts of organized criminal violence: the case of Mexico’s War on organized crime

  Kalmanovitz, Pablo; Bradley, Miriam (Oxford University Press, 2023)

  Most lethal violence now occurs outside of war zones. In Latin America, countries like Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia have often had yearly homicide rates far exceeding those in Afghanistan or Syria. The use of ...
• Rethinking the relevance of self-deterrence

  Michaels, Jeffrey H. (US Army War College (USAWC), 2024)

  Self-deterrence is critically understudied in deterrence theory. Similarly, deterrence practitioners prefer to focus on adversaries’ threats rather than seeking to account for the full scope of fears influencing the decision ...
• Sociedad internacional híbrida: gobernanza, solidarismo y soberanismo

  Barbé, Esther (Fundación Carolina, 2024)
• State institutions in north Taiwan versus south Taiwan

  Wu, Chun-Ying; Liu, Amy H. (University of Michigan Press, 2024)

  While the previous chapter emphasized how state exclusion resulted in separation, in this chapter, we see how political representation yielded an outcome that is less extreme. During the authoritarian period, the Kuomintang ...
• Multi-level governance in higher education quality assurance: agencification and policy coordination in Spain

  García Juanatey, Ana; Jordana, Jacint; Sancho, David, 1964- (Wiley, 2024)

  This article aims to examine the emergence of a system of multi-level governance in Higher Education quality assurance during recent decades in Spain, as a particular case within the European Space of Higher Education. ...
• Unpacking social order: toward a novel framework that goes beyond organizations, institutions, and networks

  Grothe-Hammer, Michael; Berkowitz, Héloïse (SAGE Publications, 2024)

  This article addresses one of the oldest, most fundamental questions: how social order comes about. Many established conceptions of social order either tend to overemphasize one specific form of social order such as ...
• Meta-organizations for sustainability transformations: navigating tensions between imperatives of transition and meta-organizationality

  Berkowitz, Héloïse; Bor, Sanna (De Gruyter, 2024)

  How do we change social orders to deliver a sustainable future? A growing literature in organization studies argues that meta-organizations are part of the answer. Meta-organizations have been shown to be well equipped for ...
• Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south

  Barlow, Matthew; Grugel, Jean (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  Do regional institutions promote more equitable governance in the global South and, in particular, do they enable more gender-equitable governance? We examine these questions in the light of regional governance actions and ...
• Preventing dissent: secret police and protests in dictatorships

  Choulis, Ioannis; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Mehrl, Marius (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

  This article examines the impact of secret police organizations on the occurrence of antiregime protests in authoritarian regimes. We argue that such organizations are related to lower levels of protests via two related ...
• América Latina en el nuevo escenario internacional: ¿qué espacio hay para el regionalismo y la cooperación regional?

  Bianculli, Andrea C. (CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), 2024)

  El sistema internacional atraviesa una etapa de transición, marcada por el debilitamiento del multilateralismo, la contestación del orden liberal y la consolidación de nuevos liderazgos globales; además, distintas crisis ...
• Measuring Garrison states in international politics: towards a new ‘Garrison index’

  Rubinson, Eyal (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  What is the role played by Garrison States – actors in which domestic and external decision-making is subjected mainly to security considerations – in global politics? A wide array of literature has attributed the notion ...
• Public preferences of environmental peacebuilding: the case of forest conservation projects in Colombia

  Schmid, Dominique; Vlaskamp, Martijn (SAGE Publications, 2024)

  To date, no studies have examined the nationwide support for environmental peacebuilding projects in post-conflict countries, that is, projects that seek to use the management of natural resources as a way of fostering ...
• The impact of thin and thick truth: the limits of truth commission design in polarized societies

  Daniels, Lesley-Ann; Zalunardo, Virginia (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  Dealing with the legacy of the past has become a popular demand in postconflict and posttransition countries. However, the pursuit of truth can be a divisive issue that threatens rather than promotes understanding, ...

View more