Between Karel Čapek and a Hard Brexit
Reflections on robotics and humanity[*] by Derek Sayer In memory of those murdered at Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 I met Murder on the way— He had a mask like Castlereagh— Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds…
Call for Papers: Post-Truth Telling in International Relations: Misdiagnosis, Complacency and Critique
Call for Papers for a forthcoming Special Section of New Perspectives. Recent events and dynamics in world politics, including the election of Donald Trump in America, the conduct of the Brexit campaign, and concerns about information warfare in the context…
Call for Papers: ISA2018 Populist Nationalism & the New Authoritarianism
Two linked panels on Populist Nationalism and the New Authoritarianism contact Prof Emeritus Martin O. Heisler at mheisler@umd.edu to submit an abstract for consideration (200 words max). Panel 1 Populist Nationalism and the New Authoritanism I: Internal Sources and Cross-state Diffusion…
Hard Lessons from the Manchester attack
Our Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Tallis, comes from #Manchester and has combined personal reflections on the tragic attacks in the city with his professional expertise in security studies and understanding political violence in recent days. “It was tough waking up to the terrible news…
Russia – Alone at the Table?
IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences ‘Russia & The World’ 2017 Forecast. Download the full IMEMO forecast here. Editor’s Introduction Benjamin Tallis, Editor-in-Chief, New Perspectives For the third successive year, New Perspectives is delighted to publish, exclusively in English, the annual ‘Russia…
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Editorial 01/2017 [i], Benjamin Tallis, Editor-in-Chief, New Perspectives In the fountain Amid the square Floats A diver Searching For yesterday’s sunset Vítězslav Nezval, ‘Bizarre Town – 14’, The Absolute Gravedigger. To read the full issue visit our website The recent ISA annual…
Article Ahead of Print – Helsinki Syndrome: The Parachronistic Renaissance of Finlandization in International Politics
Read the full article – The Helsinki Syndrome by Tapio Juntunen – in Online First Helsinki Syndrome, Definition: Psychology: Colloquial misnomer for Stockholm Syndrome International Relations (practice): Unfavourable domestic political culture stemming from an ultra-realist and circumspect reading of one’s foreign policy latitude in…
Article ahead of print – Twilight of the Proletariat: Reading Critical Balkanology as Liberal Ideology
by Rade Zinaić Inspired above all by Edward Said’s Orientalism, Critical Balkanology unveils and criticises the ways of depicting Balkans in the dominant Western narrative. Under the Western gaze, the Balkans is imagined – and desired – as a savage place,…
Article ahead of print – On New Travels in Space-time: Theoretical Rediscoveries after the Crisis in (Comparative) Capitalism(s)
In Vol. 23(02) (2015), we published an insightful and provocative review essay by Daniel Šitera on two recent and highly influential edited collections in the field of International Political Economy (IPE). We are now delighted to present the responses of…
The shifting essence of Treptower Memorial, Berlin
by Vojtěch Jirásek World War II left many scars on the landscape of Berlin and in its aftermath. Soviets enjoyed building big memorials that were hard not to notice. I’ve studied one of them, the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower…
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