‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD +2 more
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Banal Nationalism in Iran: Daily Re-Production of National and Religious Identity
After its 1979 revolution, Islamism became Iran’s main policy as regards its domestic and foreign affairs. However, nationalism continued to exist. After the revolution, the national identity of Iranianness based on Shii Islam and pre-Islamic Persian ...
Nail Elhan
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Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination
ABSTRACT This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western‐led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it locates this relationship within a dynamic space of homological correspondence, positioning Israel as its frontier.
Wassim Ghantous
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The United Kingdom's first anti‐Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza
Abstract In summer 2024, the United Kingdom was the scene of several days of horrific public attacks against Muslim populations. While some have described these attacks as spontaneous riots between far‐right groups and anti‐racist activists, these were in fact the United Kingdom's first anti‐Muslim pogroms, occurring in a very specific genocidal ...
Kawtar Najib
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Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan
Abstract Crafting and maintaining peace agreements is one of the most critical challenges in international relations and conflict resolution. Despite their initial promise, many such deals have failed, sparking renewed conflict and instability. This article argues that two primary factors influence the durability of these agreements: elite positions ...
Chen Kertcher, Carmela Lutmar
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“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification
ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
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Rethinking the Role of Religion in Arab Antisemitic Discourses
“The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is about faith and belief,” insist Islamists in their attempts to Islamize the Arab−Israeli conflict.
Esther Webman
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Copts, Islamists and Jews:Gender, minorities, hybridity (and its limits) in two novellas by Bahaa Abdelmegid [PDF]
Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967.
IRVING, SARAH
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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Neighborly violence, social science, and super????icial similarities
Jan’s Gross’s pathbreaking book Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, inspired a new generation of social scientific research on the Holocaust that highlighted the importance of local dynamics, the mix of German and non-German ...
Jeffrey Kopstein, Jason Wittenberg
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