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Understanding how to promote peace in the region is perhaps more pressing now than at any time in the post-Cold War era. The region faces a myriad of security challenges including the rise of extremism, proxy wars at the regional level, and the negative effects of climate change
Read MoreTo argue that one’s location in the social structure shapes one’s perception and experience is not to suggest that this relationship is self-evident. The question of how it should be understood is a matter of intense debate; not just across positionings in the social structure (gender, race, class or sexuality, in India caste) but within them also.
Read MoreChina’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most ambitious development projects ever undertaken, comparable only to the post-World War II Marshall Plan and China’s own Three Gorges Dam project. Significantly, China deftly presented it to the world as a civic economic project designed to benefit all participating countries and many other countries where its effect was expected to be indirect but positive.
Read MoreWhat impact will Brexit have on the decision-making processes and outputs of the European Union (EU)? Losing one of its largest member states – in terms of the size of the UK’s population, economy, diplomatic resources and military power – could have important consequences for the policies that the EU will adopt and for the relations among the remaining states. Much has been written about the causes of Brexit and its possible effects on the United Kingdom (UK) and the economic relations between the UK and the EU27. However, there has been little systematic analysis of the possible effects of Brexit on the functioning of EU institutions.
Read MoreMigration is one of the most important social phenomena of our times. In the social science literature, particularly among US-based scholars, African migrant women remain an understudied population. The experiences of African women migrants, either as immigrants or refugees, clearly demonstrate that migration is a gendered process.
Read MoreWhile in public citizens express their clear rejection of corruption and their intentions not to support corrupt politicians, empirical evidence shows that voters around the world only mildly punish corrupt politicians. From a theoretical point of view it is puzzling how corrupt governments survive in democratic societies, as one of the main functions of free elections, a fundamental to every democracy, is to hold governments accountable.
Read MoreLabour markets in advanced economies are increasingly marked by job polarisation, whereby job creation occurs either at the high- or low-skill levels, while mid-skill jobs are disappearing. This is mainly due to the process of automation of many routine-based tasks, as machines, computers, and robots can replace certain repetitive human tasks. What impact does this development have on politics? In our recent paper, we demonstrate that the fear of labour automation may translate into greater support for radical right parties.
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