The world's understanding of the action needed to advance human rights is deeply
structured by the 'respect, protect, and fulfill'framework. But its potential is significantly …

This article surveys literature on the struggle for recognition and ontological security in
international relations (IR). It explores rising powers' structural and normative challenges …

This article examines the evolution of Taiwan's relationship with Singapore since the 1960s
as a unique case study in the Asia-Pacific. The theoretical concept of recognition in …

Studies on recognition in international politics deal with the (de-) legitimation of specific
actors and the political dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in international society …

Global Justice and Social Conflict offers a ground-breaking historical and theoretical
reappraisal of the ideas that underpin and sustain the global liberal order, international law …

'Consensual Non-monogamy is an umbrella term for any relationship type in which people
are not monogamous', explains the sociologist Elisabeth Sheff (Sheff, 2016). As we will …

In this article I consider religion in international political scholarship and suggest a study of
its epistemological politics and conceptual history. I argue that scholarship which strives to …

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the 'Responsibility to
Protect'. The idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect populations …

Ours is a time of social conflicts. With the Arab Spring and the Spanish Indignados of 2011, a
recurring global conflict phenomenon began to emerge, ranging from Occupy Wall Street …

This article argues that the normative promise of recognition theory in International Relations
has become increasingly inadequate to the cross-cutting and intersecting issues …