Research

Readers, please pay attention to this because it will make waves… Back in January, we held our inaugural conference “Between Peripheries.” The conference featured an incredible array of thinkers, artists and scholars working at the intersection of post-colonial/de-colonial, critical and […]

Highlights Studying small states is important for answering big and important questions in international relations, such as ‘what is power?’ and ‘what is agency?’. Small state agency is best understood as graded and contingent and constituted in the meeting between […]

Highlights This article studies the gendered implications of the practice of unarmed civilian protection. It provides an intersectional analysis of ideas of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘protection’. The article argues that protection should be understood as community based and relational, not something […]

What relations matter? This is the question our co-directors explore in their piece in International Studies Quarterly. The article addresses in a more thoroughgoing way the methodological and ethico-political problems that some relational thinkers have debated.