Monday, May 22, 2023

New Issue: International Affairs

The latest issue of International Affairs (Vol. 99, no. 3, May 2023) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Section: Legitimzing International Organzations
    • Tobias Lenz & Fredrik Söderbaum The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments
    • Tobias Lenz & Henning Schmidtke, Agents, audiences and peers: why international organizations diversify their legitimation discourse
    • Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Nicole Deitelhoff & Diane Schumann, The path of least resistance: why international institutions maintain dialogue forums
    • Sarah Von Billerbeck, Organizational narratives and self-legitimation in international organizations
    • Lora Anne Viola, Two-sided legitimation strategies: informal groups at the World Trade Organization
    • Joel Ng, ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture
    • Kilian Spandler & Fredrik Söderbaum, Populist (de)legitimation of international organizations
    • Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Mercosur at 30: political ideologies and (de)legitimation strategies
    • Alice D. Ba, Diversification’s legitimation challenges: ASEAN and its Myanmar predicament
    • Stefano Palestini, The politics of legitimation in combined sanction regimes: the case of Venezuela
  • Articles
    • Bianca Naude, COVID–19 travel bans and the reactivation of colonial trauma in Africa
    • Goitom Gebreluel, Ideology, grand strategy and the rise and decline of Ethiopia’s regional status
    • Niklas Bremberg, The OSCE and climate security: diplomatic practice in a changing geopolitical context
    • Corina Lacatus & Valentina Carraro, National human rights institutions: independent actors in global human rights governance?
    • Carolina Panico, Challenging war traditions: humanitarian discourse and the nuclear prohibition treaty
    • Kate MacFarlane, Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity
    • Marika Theros, Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–21
    • Adam David Morton, Mainstreaming Marxism: on the anarchic structure of world economy
    • Brian C. H. Fong, What’s driving the democratic recession in Asia?
    • Alexander Libman & Igor Davidzon, Military intervention as a spectacle? Authoritarian regionalism and protests in Kazakhstan