The dynamics of dissent: when actions are louder than words
A profusion of international norms influences state behaviour. Ambiguities and tensions in the normative framework can give rise to contestation. While research on norm contestation has focused on open debates about norms, we identify a second type of norm contestation where norms are contested through particular forms of implementation. We therefore distinguish between contestation through words and actions, that is, discursive and behavioural contestation. Discursive contestation involves debates about the meaning and/or (relative) importance of norms.
Endogenous and Exogenous Election Timing
This chapter examines the rules that govern election timing in democracies. It begins by distinguishing between constitutionally fixed (exogenous) and constitutionally flexible (endogenous) election timing, reviews which political actors can call early elections when endogenous election timing is permitted, and notes that early elections are heterogeneous and can be of two distinct types—either triggered by government failure or called for partisan advantage.
Over-pumping of groundwater in Irbid governorate, northern Jordan: a conceptual model to analyze the effects of urbanization and agricultural activities on groundwater levels and salinity
Production of scale in regional hydropolitics: An analysis of La Plata River Basin and the Guarani Aquifer System in South America
An Analysis of Water Awareness Campaign Messaging in the Case of Jordan: Water Conservation for State Security
The Language of "Political Science" in Early Modern Europe
Historians of early modern "scientia civilis" focus on two main understandings of that concept: the juridical and the rhetorical. This article focuses on another way of thinking about civil science in the early modern period, the origins and development of which are in the Aristotelian commentary tradition. This article begins with political science in Aristotle then turns to the works of commentators from Albert the Great in the thirteenth century, to the Oxford philosopher John Case in the late sixteenth.
Russia Has Won the Information War in Turkey - Akin Unver
Teresa M. Bejan's Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
Dr Bejan responds to reviews of her Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration from Sonu Bedi (Dartmouth), George Thomas (Claremont), and Wilfred M. McClay (University of Oklahoma).
The UK’s Alphabet Soup: The Organization of Cybersecurity Actors Protecting Critical National Infrastructure
A number of different actors are involved in protecting critical national infrastructure (CNI) systems within the United Kingdom. The breadth of expertise across varied sectors and industries means that UK CNI is ultimately protected by a loose network rather than a single empowered actor. Although the necessity of such an assemblage is inevitable, the roles and responsibilities of the participants remain ill-defined.