This article serves as an introduction to this Special Issue on the banning or proscription of
terrorist organisations around the world. It begins by arguing for greater attention to …

This article presents drag performance as a queer method of critique in the field of IR, which
contributes to a longstanding move in IR to engage with aesthetics, and a more recent move …

This article explores the banning of National Action (NA), a small, violent national-socialist
group, which, in December 2016, became the first extreme right-wing group proscribed by a …

Villains need to be de-villainized for talking to begin; this is a cornerstone of negotiation
literature. But what happens when villains are proscribed, or listed as terrorists? While an …

This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system
parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grave decision to ban …

A recent wave of scholarship has drawn attention to the need for further engagement with
the role of 'the audience'in securitization 'games'. This article contributes to this discussion …

This article explores the parameters, value and limitations of different critical strategies for
those dissatisfied with the contemporary politics of terror. It argues, first, that the prominent …

Conventional analyses of terrorism proscription rely on conceptions of policy in terms of
bureaucratic institutions and processes functioning according to means-end rationality, and …

This article seeks to open up debate about Parliamentary debate by exploring the history of
ideas about Parliamentary debate and rhetoric through the lens of four core concepts …

This article looks at a project involving nine internationally acclaimed street artists who
agreed to make murals in Oslo, following the 22 July 2011 attacks. Resting on the art …