This podcast showcases recent work by scholars from the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University. Across episodes, SGIA researchers explain how cutting-edge research ...

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Researchers travelled across Damascus, Rural Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa observing firsthand how Syrians are navigating the country’s transition.

Fierce competition and overcapacity crises are impeding efforts to decarbonize cement production

New trustee Alice Finden discusses her career journey, trusteeship and the benefits of working groups.

In line with the neoliberal trends in global politics, home states started showing more interest in harnessing their diasporas for economic, political and cultural benefits. For illiberal home stat...

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

At a time when right-wing populism appears to be rampaging through global politics, studies about its discourses and strategies remain thin and even marginal in the field of international relations. T...

New defence spending offers little clarity on the future direction of military space.

Following his widely praised Ages of American Capitalism, Jonathan Levy’s The Real Economy proposes a theoretical counterpart, grounding a concept of capital in a fusion of Smith, Keynes, Freud, Deleu...

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This article examines the prosecution of Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria through an analysis of official reports and court documents from the so-called Kainji trials. Moving beyond dominant narrativ...

Abstract. This book is positioned at the intersection of two lines of inquiry: the co-production of hierarchical difference in world politics and reading t

Al-Mutahari: The Roots of the Yemen–Israel Conflict | DNR, 2026 Bronze Telly Awards General Winner for Documentary: Short Form (Under 40 Minutes)

Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

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Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

Abstract. How does the turn to colonial archives in social research connect to decolonial politics? In this paper, we explore this relationship by attendin

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Critical knowledge production and the accumulated knowledge and practices around peace and intervention was largely ignored in relation to the Western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Subsequ...

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Diasporas and their transnational ties to homelands and other networks often generate heightened suspicion in countries of residence. They are perceived as non-state actors forming non-transparent ...