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EJIS Special Issue Proposals – Open Call

Deadline: 30 September 2017 The European Journal of International Security is inviting proposals for a Special Issue, to be published in Volume 4 of the journal (2019). The call is open, in the sense that we are not specifying a preferred topic or topics in security studies. However, we will favour proposals that speak to […]

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It’s the numbers, stupid!  Understanding quantification in global security governance.

Blog by Stephane J. Baele, Thierry Balzacq, Philippe Bourbeau.   “The political world, just like the physical world, in many respects may be regulated by weights, number and measure” (Diderot 1751).   Political speeches, official reports, tweets and other outputs are filled with numbers. Even the propaganda produced by the so-called Islamic State contains stats-based infographics. […]

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European Energy Union? Caught between securitisation and ‘riskification’

European Journal of International Security, Issue 2:2 (forthcoming). By Andrew Judge (University of Glasgow) and Tomas Maltby (King’s College London)    EU energy policy over the past decade has been characterised by two key developments – liberalisation and ‘securitisation’.  The Commission has sought to liberalise and integrate electricity and gas markets as part of its […]

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When the Whip Comes Down: Marxism, the Soviet Experience, and the Nuclear Revolution

European Journal of International Security, Issue 2:2 (forthcoming). By Campbell Craig, Cardiff University Marxism, once a venerable theory of international relations as well as all other realms of politics, fell well out of fashion following the collapse of the Soviet Union and almost complete disappearance of state socialism over the past 25 years.  Recently, however, Justin […]

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The Permissive Power of the Ban on War

European Journal of International Security, Issue 2:1. View full article here. By Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, USA In 1945, the UN Charter made it illegal for governments to go to war with each other. It enacted the first ever general legal ban on the use or threat of force by one state against another and has […]

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EJIS Editor-in-Chief at ISA 2017

Look out for EJIS Editor-in-Chief, Professor Tim Edmunds who will be representing EJIS in two events at ISA 2017: Launching and Managing Academic Journals, WC86: Wednesday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM Meet the Editors, FC16: Friday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM

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On Non-Western Norm Shapers: Brazil and the Responsibility while Protecting 

European Journal of International Security, Issue 2:1. View full article here. By Cristina G. Stefan, University of Leeds, UK The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm has been discussed extensively since its initial emergence in the 2001 report on the topic, and especially after 2005, when it was institutionalized at the UN. The UN Secretary-General’s 2009 report […]

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BISA Journals’ Approach to Data Access and Research Transparency

The editors of the Review of International Studies and the European Journal of International Security recognise that the discipline of Politics and International Studies is characterised by fundamentally different understandings of what it means to undertake political inquiry. For some, this involves the analysis of empirical evidence extracted from the social world. For others, it […]

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The EJIS and the Future of International Security Studies

EJIS Roundtable – 15:30-17:00, Wednesday 15th June BISA Conference, Edinburgh  The European Journal of International Security (EJIS, www.ejis.eu) has launches at an exciting for international security studies. The discipline is vibrant, increasingly diverse and growing. However, it also faces challenges. These include questions over the scope and focus of the discipline itself; its relationship to international […]

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Future Arms, Technologies, and International Law: Preventive Security Governance

Blog by Denise Garcia European Journal of International Security, inaugural issue. Full article available here. Key words: new technologies, prevention, security governance, killer robots, fully autonomous weapons, cyber, international norms, drones The world is facing new potentially destructive means and methods of warfare, and it is not yet clear how international law will apply to […]

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