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Abstract. As the beating heart of global circuits of violence, arms companies face a constant crisis of legitimation. Tracing how these companies seek legi

Abstract. In the past decades, remotely piloted aircraft systems, hereby referred to as military drones, have grown as a literature topic across discipline

Abstract. In February 2019, Indian warplanes struck so-called terrorist camps in Pakistan in what became known as the “Balakot airstrike.” A key feature of

Abstract. The arms trade is central to the dynamics of violence, inequality, power, and global order, yet international relations (IR) has been surprisingl

Abstract. This special forum grew out of the European Workshops on International Studies (EWIS) at the University of Amsterdam in July 2023, where a group

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Abstract. Recent postwar recovery efforts have paved the way for reforms that advance women's participation in politics, inclusion in the economy, and acce

Abstract. The felling of the iconic tree at the Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, England, in September 2023 was met with national outrage. The tree was beli

Abstract. Civilization, I argue, is an aesthetic concept, not just a legal and political one. To make this case, I take as an illustration the nineteenth-c

Abstract. In this article, we advocate for mainstream International Relations (IR) to acknowledge the agency of ‘global thinkers’ who have been overlooked

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Abstract. Despite governments investing considerable resources in the establishment and use of expert bodies, not all expert groups are able to successfull

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Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine plunged Germany's Ostpolitik (Eastern Policy) into crisis. Whereas Ostpolitik had commonly been seen to have

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Abstract. The idea of localizing development assistance continues to gain traction in donor rhetoric and to a lesser degree in practice. Specifically, the

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Abstract. There has been increased scholarly and policy attention to “localized” responses to displacement, in the hope that further empowering local actor

Abstract. In this article, we consider the memory practices of families whose loved ones were forcibly disappeared during periods of political violence. Th

Abstract. This paper develops a postcolonial perspective on norm localization to argue that the contradictory conduct of African states in the internationa

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Abstract. This Introduction and Special Forum highlight the importance of localization for the study of world politics, both as a theoretical concept in in

Abstract. Traditionally, Ontological Security Studies (OSS) have focused on the anxieties and crises of unitary states. More recent scholarship, however, h

Abstract. The global project of transitional justice (TJ) assumes that states are partners in justice processes. Yet, the TJ framework has been increasingl

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Abstract. This article introduces the special forum, “Feminism in the Face of Failure: Peacebuilding in Violent and Illiberal ‘Post-Conflict Settings,'” by

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