Martin Luther King as an international thinker?
Monday 17 January marked the official US holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. While watching Monday’s Democracy Now! program, featuring substantive excerpts from King’s speeches, the clarity with...
View ArticleWhat We Talked About At ISA: Critique in Anti-Colonial Thought: Fanon and...
“I saw folk die of hunger in Cape Verde and I saw folk die from flogging in Guiné (with beatings, kicks, forced labour), you understand? This is the entire reason for my revolt.”.[1] I sincerely...
View ArticleWhat We (Should Have) Talked About at ISA: Poststructural and Postcolonial...
…(drumroll)… We are collectively joyous at being able to introduce a new contributor to The Disorder Of Things: Robbie Shilliam, currently at the Victoria University of Wellington and author of a...
View ArticleDalston: A Worm’s Eye View
(…cheers…) Please welcome, in your traditional way, the latest in the expanding list of Disorder-ed contributors. Rahul Rao, currently Lecturer in International Security at SOAS, author most recently...
View ArticleHuman Rights Contested – Part II
This is a continuation of my previous post… Who Are Human Rights For? All of the authors take account of the ambiguous history of human rights, in which they can be said to have inspired the Haitian,...
View ArticleThe Anglosphere, Part Two: Of Liberal Leviathans and Global Turns
Viewed from the perspective of liberal IR, Britain’s globe-spanning empire can be described as “Liberal Internationalism 1.0.” According to G. John Ikenberry, the “liberal ascendancy” had everything...
View ArticleKobani: What’s In A Name?
A guest post from Kamran Matin. Kamran is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches modern history of the Middle East and international theory. He is...
View ArticleWhat We Talked About At ISA2015: A Debate Around John Hobson’s ‘The...
Below is the text of my intervention at a roundtable organized by Alina Sajed entitled ‘Race and International Relations—A Debate Around John Hobson’s The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics‘....
View ArticleEthical Encounters – The Special Ambiguity of Humanity
This is the second post in a series reflecting on contemporary global ethics that was originally organised as the Ethical Encounters in a Changing World panel for the 2015 ISA convention in New...
View ArticleToward a New Concept of Genocide: A Reply
Our symposium on Benjamin Meiches’s The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) concludes with the author’s response to the participants. You can find...
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