International Relations (School of): Recent submissions
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“Already/not yet” : St Paul’s eschatology and the modern critique of historicism
(2018-04-17) - Journal articleThis paper interrogates some prominent post-Marxist engagements with St Paul’s messianism by reading them in the theological context of the anti-historicist revival of Pauline eschatology in the twentieth century. In both ... -
Military loyalty and the failure of democratization in Africa : how ethnic armies shape the capacity of presidents to defy term limits
(2017-07-29) - Journal articleThe military plays a crucial role in furthering or hindering democratization in Africa. Beyond direct intervention through coups, armies more subtly and perniciously condition the political trajectory of states through ... -
Russia and the cis in 2017. Russia in Asia : succumbing to China's embrace?
(2018-02-22) - Journal articleSince the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia's "eastward pivot" has intensified, mainly observable as strengthened relations with China, which appear to be evolving into a quasi-alliance. This places in question Russian ... -
Language, entanglement and the new Silk Roads
(2018-03-15) - Journal articleObservers have tended to place the Silk Road proposals in the context of ‘China’s rise’, and its increasing influence and interests in Central, South and South-East Asia. From a realist perspective, China, like any expanding ... -
Structural violence and the paradox of humanitarian intervention
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-26) - ThesisHumanitarian interventions tend to be justified by claims to the existence of an obligation upon ‘us’ (the benevolent saviours) to intervene militarily when a state is responsible for large-scale atrocity crimes against ...