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Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy (2019)
Journal Article
Tyler, C. (2019). Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy. Dialogi Polityczne = Political Dialogues, 27(27), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.12775/dp.2019.011

The article analyses the progress of the Brexit debate in the UK from the time that David Cameron announced in 2013 his intention to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the UK up until the calling of the 2019 UK General Election. It considers... Read More about Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy.

The Role of the Patient’s Family, Surrogate and Guardian at the End of Life (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2019). The Role of the Patient’s Family, Surrogate and Guardian at the End of Life. European journal for person centered healthcare, 7(3), 454-465. https://doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v7i3.1739

The aim of this paper is to explore the intricate issue of the right to die in dignity by focusing on the role of the patient’s family. The paper considers a number of real-life cases. The cases demonstrate the importance of caution in incidents when... Read More about The Role of the Patient’s Family, Surrogate and Guardian at the End of Life.

Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century? (2019)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2019). Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century?. Parliamentary affairs, 72(4), 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsz043

A set of departmental select committees was agreed by the UK House of Commons in 1979 and has become a core feature of British parliamentary life. This introductory survey examines the genesis of the committees and the extent to which they constitute... Read More about Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century?.

Aristotle on the Authority of the Many: Politics III 11, 1281a40-b21 (2019)
Journal Article
Hatzistavrou, A. (2021). Aristotle on the Authority of the Many: Politics III 11, 1281a40-b21. Apeiron, 54(2), 203-232. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2018-0093

In this article I propose a new interpretation of Aristotle's arguments about the authority of the many at Politics III 11, 1281a40-b21. It consists of the following main tenets. First, the multitude that Aristotle refers to in his arguments should b... Read More about Aristotle on the Authority of the Many: Politics III 11, 1281a40-b21.

Lessons from the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks: An interview with Aharon Barak (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2019). Lessons from the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks: An interview with Aharon Barak. Israel Studies Review, 34(2), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.3167/isr.2019.340202

This article is based on an interview conducted in July 2018 with Aharon Barak. In it, Barak reflects on the peace negotiations with Egypt at Camp David during 13 days in September 1978. While expressing great appreciation for the American negotiatin... Read More about Lessons from the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks: An interview with Aharon Barak.

Visualizing the terror threat. The impact of communicating security information to the general public using infographics and motion graphics (2019)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, M. D. S., Lonsdale, D., Baxter, M., Graham, R., Kanafani, A., Li, A., & Peng, C. (2019). Visualizing the terror threat. The impact of communicating security information to the general public using infographics and motion graphics. Visible language, 53(2), 37-71

Terrorism represents one of the most pressing contemporary security threats. As a consequence, governments provide information to the public on threat levels and on how to respond to terror incidents. To effectively reassure the public, and to increa... Read More about Visualizing the terror threat. The impact of communicating security information to the general public using infographics and motion graphics.

The authority of law in Plato's Crito (2019)
Journal Article
Hatzistavrou, A. (2019). The authority of law in Plato's Crito. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 32(2), 365-387. https://doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2019.24

In this article I analyze the speech of the Laws in Plato’s Crito from a jurisprudential perspective. More specifically I explore the Laws’ views about the authority of law. I offer new interpretations of their famous ‘persuade or obey’ alternative a... Read More about The authority of law in Plato's Crito.

Israel-PLO Peace Process: Interview with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2019). Israel-PLO Peace Process: Interview with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer. Israel Studies, 24(3), 126-156. https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.24.3.06

This article records my interview with one of the foremost American experts on the Middle East, Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, who served as an ambassador to both Cairo and Jerusalem. The interview covers major peace junctions: Oslo, Camp David and Taba.... Read More about Israel-PLO Peace Process: Interview with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer.

Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value (2019)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2019). Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value. Journal of Legislative Studies, 25(3), 340-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1633778

Legislatures appoint committees for different purposes. Both Houses of the UK Parliament separate legislative committees from non-legislative, or select, committees. Each is unusual in that it utilises select committees to engage in post-legislative... Read More about Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value.

Keys for peace in the Middle East: interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2019). Keys for peace in the Middle East: interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich. Israel affairs, 25(4), 699-725. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2019.1626092

This article records my interview with Professor Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich. We discussed the keys for successful peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; the differences between Camp David 1978 and Camp David 2000; The Oslo Accords... Read More about Keys for peace in the Middle East: interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich.

Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory (2019)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2019). Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory. History of European ideas, 45(7), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582

R. G. Collingwood's New Leviathan (1942) presents an account of two ‘dialectical’ political processes that are ongoing in any body politic. Existing scholarship has already covered the first: a dialectic between a ‘social’ and a ‘non-social’ element,... Read More about Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory.

Racism and hate speech – A critique of Scanlon’s Contractual Theory (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2019). Racism and hate speech – A critique of Scanlon’s Contractual Theory. First Amendment Studies, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/21689725.2019.1601579

The First Amendment is an important value in American liberal polity. Under this value, racism, hate speech and offensive speech are protected speech. This article scrutinizes one of the clear representatives of the American liberal polity - Thomas S... Read More about Racism and hate speech – A critique of Scanlon’s Contractual Theory.

The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh: Coping strategy of a small state (2019)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2019). The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh: Coping strategy of a small state. Strategic Analysis, 43(3), 227-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2019.1599567

This article explains the Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh in the wake of the former’s launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. Beijing intends to fund various large-scale infrastructure projects in Bangladesh under... Read More about The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh: Coping strategy of a small state.

Handling and communicating intelligence information: a conceptual, historical and information design analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, D., & Lonsdale, M. D. S. (2019). Handling and communicating intelligence information: a conceptual, historical and information design analysis. Intelligence and national security, 34(5), 703-726. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1592841

Effective communication of information is essential to intelligence work. This paper identifies the main obstacles to good communication: policy-related challenges; cognitive impediments; resource limitations; cultural and structural issues within in... Read More about Handling and communicating intelligence information: a conceptual, historical and information design analysis.

Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh (2019)
Journal Article
Chakma, B. (2019). Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 49(1-2), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2018.1-2.8704

This paper explains the security perceptions and practices of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. In doing so, it adopts an interpretive ethnographic approach in which it posits, based on fieldwork experiences an... Read More about Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh.

The Legal Status of Israeli-Arabs/Palestinians in Israel (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R., & Wattad, M. S. (2019). The Legal Status of Israeli-Arabs/Palestinians in Israel. GNLU Law and Society Review, 1(1), 1-28

The authors argue for accommodating the interests of the Israeli-Arabs/Palestinians. Israel should strive to safeguard equal rights and liberties for all citizens notwithstanding religion, race, ethnicity, colour, gender, class or sexual orientation,... Read More about The Legal Status of Israeli-Arabs/Palestinians in Israel.

‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism (2019)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (in press). ‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism. In Etica, Politica, Storia universale

The chapter is structured as follows. Section two briefly sketches Thomas Hill Green’s early attitudes to Russia. Section three analyses Green’s mature conception of “the state” and considers its influence on his mature attitude towards Czarism. Sect... Read More about ‘A State by a Sort of Courtesy’: T.H Green’s theory of the state as a critique of Czarism.