Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (23)

The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence (2016)
Book
Martin, C. (2016). The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01237-1

This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies,... Read More about The UK as a medium maritime power in the 21st century: Logistics for influence.

Patient's autonomy, physician's convictions and euthanasia in Belgium (2016)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2016). Patient's autonomy, physician's convictions and euthanasia in Belgium. Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics, 24, 343-356

The aim of this paper is to show the inherent contradiction in the Belgian euthanasia practice. While stressing patient’s autonomy, medical professionals exhibit paternalism in deciding the patient’s fate. First, background information is provided. T... Read More about Patient's autonomy, physician's convictions and euthanasia in Belgium.

Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby (2016)
Book
Doctor, M. (2017). Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203744031

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure-for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the W... Read More about Business-state relations in Brazil: Challenges of the port reform lobby.

Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies (2016)
Journal Article
Clisby, S., & Lennon, K. (2016). Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies. Journal of gender studies,

In this introductory article we provide a contextual theoretical framework of feminist debates and movements through the lens of the Journal of Gender Studies over the course of the past quarter of a century. Attention to the processes by which we be... Read More about Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies.

Discrimination against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel (2016)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2018). Discrimination against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 45(2), 290-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2016.1258543

© 2016 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Democracy is supposed to allow individuals the opportunity to follow their conception of the good without coercion. Generally speaking, Israel gives precedence to Judaism over liberalism. This article... Read More about Discrimination against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel.

Jihad online: How do terrorists use the internet? (2016)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2017). Jihad online: How do terrorists use the internet?. In Media and Metamedia Management (55-66). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46068-0_8

Terrorism is designed to attract attention to the terrorist’s cause and to spread fear and anxiety among wide circles of the targeted population. This paper provides information about the ways terrorists are using the Internet. The threat of terroris... Read More about Jihad online: How do terrorists use the internet?.

Environmental NGOs: pushing for leadership (2016)
Book Chapter
Connelly, J., & Wurzel, R. (2016). Environmental NGOs: pushing for leadership. In R. K. Wurzel, J. Connelly, & D. Liefferink (Eds.), The European Union in International Climate Change Politics: Still Taking a Lead? (221-236). Routledge

Surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the role which environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) have played in EU climate change politics, although there are exceptions (e.g. Long et al. 2002; Wurzel and Connelly 2011a; S... Read More about Environmental NGOs: pushing for leadership.

Ordering and controlling the dimensions of strategy (2016)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, D. J. (2016). Ordering and controlling the dimensions of strategy. Defence Studies, 16(4), 390-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2016.1228430

Colin Gray’s dimensions of strategy, built upon the earlier work of Clausewitz and Howard, has theoretical, practical, and pedagogic value for the Strategic Studies community. This paper further develops the theory, arguing that the dimensions can be... Read More about Ordering and controlling the dimensions of strategy.

The Charlie Hebdo affair : between speech and terror (2016)
Digital Artefact
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2016). The Charlie Hebdo affair : between speech and terror. [HTML]

The Charlie Hebdo affair has brought to the fore four major issues: [1] Freedom of expression and offence [2] The fallacy of universal liberalism [3] Globalization [4] Sombre yet sober thoughts about the era in which we live.

The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far? (2016)
Book Chapter
Morris, J., & Wheeler, N. (2016). The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far?. In A. J. Bellamy, & T. Dunne (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (227-248). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.13

The responsibility to protect (R2P) and the question of UN Security Council veto constraint are intimately linked, but whilst the R2P has become increasingly embedded in diplomatic discourse and practice, the idea that in relation to it the Council’s... Read More about The responsibility not to veto: A responsibility too far?.

Labour parties ideas transfer and ideological positioning : Australia and Britain compared (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, B. M., & Beech, M. (2016). Labour parties ideas transfer and ideological positioning : Australia and Britain compared. Policy studies : the journal of the Policy Studies Institute, 37(5), 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2016.1188914

As part of this special issue examining policy transfer between the Labour Parties in Australia and Britain, this paper seeks to explore the relationship between the two on ideological positioning. In the 1990s there was substantial ideas transfer fr... Read More about Labour parties ideas transfer and ideological positioning : Australia and Britain compared.

Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example (2016)
Journal Article
Sarich, J., Olivier, M., & Bales, K. (2016). Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example. Human rights quarterly, 38(2), 450-476. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2016.0030

Slavery, long abolished under international law, left a devastating imprint on Africa. However, enslavement of women through forced marriages remains a common phenomenon in many African states. These African states share the common feature of legal p... Read More about Forced marriage, slavery, and plural legal systems: An African example.

Environmental leaders and pioneers: agents of change? (2016)
Journal Article
Wurzel, R. K., & Liefferink, D. (2017). Environmental leaders and pioneers: agents of change?. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(7), 951-968. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1161657

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article distinguishes between states acting as environmental leaders or pioneers. While leaders usually actively seek to attract followers, this is not normally the case for pioneer... Read More about Environmental leaders and pioneers: agents of change?.

Beyond just war : military strategy for the common good (2016)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, D. (2016). Beyond just war : military strategy for the common good. Journal of Military Ethics, 15(2), 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2016.1207453

The objective of this paper is to move ethical discourse on military strategy beyond the confines of the established War Convention. This is achieved by utilizing the Common Good, a concept found in political philosophy and theology. The common good... Read More about Beyond just war : military strategy for the common good.

Resolvendo o conflito Israelense-Palestino : uma solução bi-estatal (2016)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2016). Resolvendo o conflito Israelense-Palestino : uma solução bi-estatal

O objetivo desse texto é esboçar os parâmetros para a paz entre Israel e Palestina. Baseando nos Parâmetros de Clinton, o Acordo de Genebra, a Iniciativa Árabe e os diálogos entre Olmert e Abbas, argumenta-se a favor da solução de dois Estados e suge... Read More about Resolvendo o conflito Israelense-Palestino : uma solução bi-estatal.

A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent (2016)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2016). A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent. Public Law, 18-34

The Prime Minister in the United Kingdom is head of government. He is the sovereign’s principal minister, chair of the Cabinet, and the nation’s representative at various international gatherings, including the European Council, who holds the office... Read More about A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent.