A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title Throughout history, Muslim men have been
depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who …

The concept of soft power occupies a prominent place in International Relations, foreign
policy, and security studies. Primarily developed by Joseph S. Nye, the concept is typically …

What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and practices with the
geopolitical? How does feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the …

Since 11 September 2001, the War on Terror has dominated global political life. The book
takes a critical look at different ways in which the George W. Bush administration created …

This paper contributes to debates on the growing appeal of right-wing populism by
combining a focus on visuality, narratives, and emotions. We argue that right-wing populists' …

This article explores the burgeoning academic interest in establishing a critical terrorism
studies research programme. It begins by reviewing the debates over definition, causation …

This book introduces a constructivist approach to the study of terrorism and shows how
language in the media affects our perceptions of'terrorists' and how particular constructions …

A burgeoning literature in IR asserts there is a relationship between pop cultural artifacts
and global policy processes, but this relationship is rarely explored using observational …

'As Michel Foucault has famously stated,“knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting.” In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

By building on theoretical insights from poststructuralist feminism and Roland Barthes'
mythology framework, this article is offering a nuanced understanding of female agency in …