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The African Union (AU) has been lauded for its gains in security on the African continent. Being the first regional intergovernmental organisation…

The U.S. assault on Venezuela confirms a long-standing historical pattern: the war on drugs has never ranked high in the actual hierarchy…

The Venezuelan crisis is often framed in Northern scholarship as a binary struggle between authoritarianism and democracy or as a peripheral arena…

The new year arrived with a Latin American capital city invaded. Overnight, United States Special Forces, under cover of the early hours’…

Neo-Ottomanism is an ideology and identity project championed by Turkey’s conservative and Islamist actors that seeks to bring Islam and Ottoman history…

This interview is part of a series of interviews with academics and practitioners at an early stage of their career. The interviews…

Syrians marked the anniversary of the regime’s fall not with a clear sense of having reached a common destination, but with a…

Northern Ireland’s unique Troubles horror story also conceals some ingenious state manipulation of the macabre. The emerging academic sub-discipline of political hauntology…

Upon gaining independence from British colonial rule on 26 June 1960, Somaliland received full recognition from 35 states, including all permanent members…

Recent arguments for global order increasingly imply that authoritarian countries around the world may be coalescing into what has come to be…