Blog by John Owen European Journal of International Security, inaugural issue. View full article here. The ‘Arab Spring’ is a conceptual blob – or, at best, a tangle of events across thousands of kilometers and scores of days, events whose connections are not clear. We do not have a good account of how the self-immolation […]
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Private Security Industry Self-Regulation – Are We Expecting Too Much from Clients?
Blog by Elke Krahmann European Journal of International Security, inaugural issue. See full article here. The killing of 17 innocent civilians by the private security company (PSC) Blackwater in Nisour Square in Baghdad in 2007 attracted huge media and political attention. The incident and its aftermath demonstrated the potentially detrimental effects of the use of […]
EJIS launch event
The European Journal of International Security (EJIS) is now live. The EJIS is edited by a GW4 team led from the University of Bristol, for the British International Studies Association and Cambridge University Press. To mark our first issue, we will be holding a reception with wine and nibbles at 1800 on 24 February in […]
Democratic curiosity in times of surveillance
Blog by Jef Huysmans Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London European Journal of International Security, inaugural issue. Full article available here. Key words: Surveillance; Democracy; Extitution; The Everyday; Dispute A 2013 study on mass surveillance requested by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs states that the key question following […]
Making sense of diplomatic pecking orders in international security
Formally, the practice of diplomacy rests on the principle of sovereign equality. Many rituals, from ambassadorial titles to alphabetical seating, are meant to convey diplomatic parity in practice. And yet, as any state delegate knows, not everyone weighs the same around the multilateral table. On the contrary, the “international pecking order” (as diplomats call it) […]
Spatial Practices of Postcolonial Governance Workshop
Jutta Weldes attended a workshop entitled ‘Spatial Practices of Postcolonial Governance: Inequalities, Exclusions, and Potentials’ at Cardiff University on 1-2 September 2015. The workshop was organised by Elisa-Wynne Hughes (Politics, Cardiff) and Terri-Anne Teo (Politics, Bristol). We spent two very lively days discussing excellent papers by scholars from across the UK and beyond. Grace Musila (English, […]
Blog: EJIS at BISA
The British International Studies Association turns 40 this year, and its annual conference provided a great venue to celebrates the anniversary. The conference held in London also provided the opportunity for the EJIS team to present the journal to a larger audience and discuss the state of security studies. At two roundtables we discussed the […]
ScholarOne now live!
Our ScholarOne online admissions system is now live. All papers should be submitted here: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejis
EJIS at the 2015 BISA Conference
The EJIS Team are all looking forward at the British International Studies Association’s 40th Anniversary Conference, 16-19 June 2015 in London. The Editorial Team is organising two roundtable discussion for the conference. The first, on International Security: Theoretical and Methodological Issues will take place on Wednesday 17 June at 1530-1700. The second, on International Security: The Contemporary Agenda, on […]
EJIS website now live!
Welcome to the website of the European Journal of International Security. For the moment, the website will function primarily as a repository of information on the journal and a gateway for the submission of papers. However, in due course, we expect to expand our online content significantly, including abstracts and short summaries of published papers, as […]
