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Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Tom Casier, Hendrik Huelss, Melita Lazell, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Peter Marshall https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
Global Society Volume 39 Issue 4 has now been published, with over half of the articles published being #OpenAccess. We will highlight each of the articles throughout October.
To access to the full issue now, click the link below!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
Global Society Volume 39 Issue 4 has now been published, with over half of the articles published being #OpenAccess. We will highlight each of the articles throughout October.
To access to the full issue now, click the link below!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
We have a new #OnlineFirst paper out in Global Society by @gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social and @francesconicoli.bsky.social, "Future Impacts of Industry 4.0 on Labour Markets and Production Reshoring, Concentration and Sustainability: A Prospective Literature Review". Do give it a read!
25.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Our social media editor, @poltheorypete.bsky.social
(@yorkstjohn.bsky.social), has recently published an article with Philosophy & Social Criticism titled "On ideological and creative forces". Read it by following the link below!
This is your reminder that both Global Society special issues 34(1) and 38(1) are free to read until the 31/10/25!
Global Society also has an open call for special issues, so please follow the link on our pinned post if you are interested in proposing any special issues!
On the final day of the @thecrs.bsky.social conference, we can also announce that we have made Global Society Special Issue 38(1), "The Algorithmic Turn in Security and Warfare", freely accessible until 31/10/25. Read the whole issue here:
#CRS2025
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
To celebrate the start of the @thecrs.bsky.social conference, we are thrilled to announce that Global Society Special Issue 34(1), "The Return of Pacifism to IR", is freely accessible in its entirety until 31/10/25. Read the whole issue here:
#CRS2025
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
An emerging field of scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing posits that AI has the potential to significantly alter political and economic landscapes within states by reconfiguring labor markets, economies, and political alliances, leading to possible societal disruptions. Thus, this study examines the potential destabilizing economic and political effects AI technology can have on societies and the resulting implications for domestic conflict based on research within the fields of political science, sociology, economics, and artificial intelligence. In addition, we conduct interviews with 10 international AI experts from think tanks, academia, multinational technology companies, the military, and cyber to assess the possible disruptive effects of AI and how they can affect domestic conflict. Lastly, the study offers steps governments can take to mitigate the potentially destabilizing effects of AI technology to reduce the likelihood of civil conflict and domestic terrorism within states.
Our fourth monthly pick is "The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Domestic Conflict" by Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland, and Chris Hennigan (all from Augusta University)! Please do give it a read!
#AI #Conflict
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We have a new #OnlineFirst paper out in Global Society by @gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social and @francesconicoli.bsky.social, "Future Impacts of Industry 4.0 on Labour Markets and Production Reshoring, Concentration and Sustainability: A Prospective Literature Review". Do give it a read!
25.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New review paper by @francesconicoli.bsky.social & myself in @globalsociety.bsky.social!
We explore how Industry 4.0 (IoT, AM, GAI) may affect future socio-economic patterns
🌱 Green transition
👷 Labour transformation
🌍 Production reshoring
⚖️ Market concentration
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This study explores the phenomenon of “civilizational deviation” in collective mediation processes within international conflicts, where perceived civilizational identities significantly impact outcomes. Comparing the late 19th-century Cretan Question and the 1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, it reveals how civilizational factors obstruct collective mediation processes. In both cases, conflicting parties held perceptions of civilizational proximity or distance to the collective mediators, diverting mediation process from established international peace frameworks. The mediation process in Crete failed to deter separatism driven by religious self-determination, resulting in a peace design incongruent with prevailing international peace framework (Richmond, Oliver P. 2022. The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2021. Similarly, the OSCE Minsk Group’s efforts in Nagorno-Karabakh faced challenges aligning with normative mandates from the UN peace framework. This analysis illuminates complexities in mediation influenced by civilizational perceptions and highlighting the need to address civilizational deviation for international peace.
Our third monthly pick is "Civilizational Deviation in Collective Mediation: A Comparative Analysis of the Cretan Question and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" by Cavit Emre Aytekin (Kafkas Üniversitesi) & Mehmet Akif Okur (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi).
#Conflict
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
International Relations (IR) and related social science disciplines focusing on peace and conflict studies have enabled a bureaucratic understanding of peacebuilding and a liberal form of peace. This has extended into a neoliberal type of statebuilding. There is now an impressive international architecture for peace, but its engagement with its subjects in everyday contexts has been less impressive. An earlier group of conflict researchers, grouped around John Burton and later A.J.R. Groom, have long argued that this is partly because IR has concentrated on elite power, problem-solving methodology and positivist epistemologies. It has failed to understand the dynamics, agency and hybridity of human society and institutions when it comes to peace, or that inequality is conflict inducing. Rescuing peacebuilding from neoliberal epistemological frameworks requires an anthropological and ethnographic sensitivity.
Our second monthly pick for September is Oliver P. Richmond's (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess article, "Rescuing Peacebuilding? Anthropology and Peace Formation". Be sure to click the link below and give it a read!
#Peace #Conflict #Neoliberalism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
University of Kentucky Poli Sci is hiring two lines in comparative politics! If you have any questions, please reach out.
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This article explores alliance behaviour among female insurgents. I argue that interethnic cooperation among women affiliated with different ethnic armed groups is affected by whether women share a commitment to gender egalitarianism and the level of repression they face from their male co-ethnics. Building on previous research, I create a typology of women’s alliance behaviour that explains variation in the level of cooperation and the type of alliance women form. I disaggregate gender egalitarianism along three dimensions – shared victimhood, promotion of gender equality and linkages to civil society – to show how women overcome mistrust to create social bonds. Using the case of the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO), I demonstrate that even in the face of repression, once these bonds are created, they are unlikely to break down. This study adds to research highlighting the role of repression in driving wartime alliances.
The first monthly pick is an #OpenAccess article by Shelli Israelsen (@radboudpol.bsky.social), "Repression and Alliance Formation: A Gender(ed) Approach to Interethnic Cooperation During Conflict".
Be sure to give it a read!
#Repression #Gender #Conflict
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This is your reminder that both Global Society special issues 34(1) and 38(1) are free to read until the 31/10/25!
Global Society also has an open call for special issues, so please follow the link on our pinned post if you are interested in proposing any special issues!
This special issue was edited by @profbode.bsky.social and Guangyu Qiao-Franco as part of the AutoNorms project!
19.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On the final day of the @thecrs.bsky.social conference, we can also announce that we have made Global Society Special Issue 38(1), "The Algorithmic Turn in Security and Warfare", freely accessible until 31/10/25. Read the whole issue here:
#CRS2025
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)!
🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée!
Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland!
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The study investigates the macro determinants of global financial inclusion using world data from 1999 to 2023 period. The data were analysed using the fully modified ordinary least squares regression estimator, the two-stage least squares regression estimator and the robust least squares regression estimator. The determinants examined are total domestic investment, macroeconomic management frameworks, international trade openness, total population size, consumer spending, and economic growth rate. The findings reveal that population size and trade openness have a positive effect on global financial inclusion through a higher financial inclusion index and commercial bank branch expansion. Total domestic investment and sound macroeconomic management have a negative effect on global financial inclusion through a decrease in the financial inclusion index and a reduction in the number of bank branches and the negative effect is more pronounced in the post-financial crisis years. However, total population size remain a positive determinant of global financial inclusion in the post-financial crisis years. Trade openness and consumer spending increase global financial inclusion during periods of economic prosperity while total domestic investment and sound macroeconomic management decrease global financial inclusion during periods of economic prosperity. In terms of forward-looking orientation, the study finds that a large population and weak macroeconomic management in the present period leads to financial inclusion gains in the future. It is recommended that policy adjustments in today’s population size and macroeconomic management frameworks can help to achieve future financial inclusion targets. The findings contribute to the financial inclusion literature by using world data to offer new insights into the factors that can accelerate global financial inclusion.
There's a new #OnlineFirst article out with Global Society, "Macro Determinants of Global Financial Inclusion: Evidence from World Data" by Peterson K. Ozili (@cenbank.bsky.social).
Be sure to give it a read!
#Growth #Finance #Investment
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The introduction for this special issue was written by @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth, Joseph Llewellyn, and Tonga Karena!
17.09.2025 09:23 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
To celebrate the start of the @thecrs.bsky.social conference, we are thrilled to announce that Global Society Special Issue 34(1), "The Return of Pacifism to IR", is freely accessible in its entirety until 31/10/25. Read the whole issue here:
#CRS2025
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/3...
The study investigates the macro determinants of global financial inclusion using world data from 1999 to 2023 period. The data were analysed using the fully modified ordinary least squares regression estimator, the two-stage least squares regression estimator and the robust least squares regression estimator. The determinants examined are total domestic investment, macroeconomic management frameworks, international trade openness, total population size, consumer spending, and economic growth rate. The findings reveal that population size and trade openness have a positive effect on global financial inclusion through a higher financial inclusion index and commercial bank branch expansion. Total domestic investment and sound macroeconomic management have a negative effect on global financial inclusion through a decrease in the financial inclusion index and a reduction in the number of bank branches and the negative effect is more pronounced in the post-financial crisis years. However, total population size remain a positive determinant of global financial inclusion in the post-financial crisis years. Trade openness and consumer spending increase global financial inclusion during periods of economic prosperity while total domestic investment and sound macroeconomic management decrease global financial inclusion during periods of economic prosperity. In terms of forward-looking orientation, the study finds that a large population and weak macroeconomic management in the present period leads to financial inclusion gains in the future. It is recommended that policy adjustments in today’s population size and macroeconomic management frameworks can help to achieve future financial inclusion targets. The findings contribute to the financial inclusion literature by using world data to offer new insights into the factors that can accelerate global financial inclusion.
There's a new #OnlineFirst article out with Global Society, "Macro Determinants of Global Financial Inclusion: Evidence from World Data" by Peterson K. Ozili (@cenbank.bsky.social).
Be sure to give it a read!
#Growth #Finance #Investment
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 Call for applications!
I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right
You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025
👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW
Our social media editor, @poltheorypete.bsky.social
(@yorkstjohn.bsky.social), has recently published an article with Philosophy & Social Criticism titled "On ideological and creative forces". Read it by following the link below!
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The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.
The @thecrs.bsky.social annual conference for 2025 (Sep 17-19) is being hosted by @kent.ac.uk (which is where we are based), so our September monthly picks highlight recent research on conflict published in Global Society. Our Editor-in-Chief Rubrick Biegon is attending, so come and say hello!
02.09.2025 09:24 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An emerging field of scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing posits that AI has the potential to significantly alter political and economic landscapes within states by reconfiguring labor markets, economies, and political alliances, leading to possible societal disruptions. Thus, this study examines the potential destabilizing economic and political effects AI technology can have on societies and the resulting implications for domestic conflict based on research within the fields of political science, sociology, economics, and artificial intelligence. In addition, we conduct interviews with 10 international AI experts from think tanks, academia, multinational technology companies, the military, and cyber to assess the possible disruptive effects of AI and how they can affect domestic conflict. Lastly, the study offers steps governments can take to mitigate the potentially destabilizing effects of AI technology to reduce the likelihood of civil conflict and domestic terrorism within states.
Our fourth monthly pick is "The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Domestic Conflict" by Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland, and Chris Hennigan (all from Augusta University)! Please do give it a read!
#AI #Conflict
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This study explores the phenomenon of “civilizational deviation” in collective mediation processes within international conflicts, where perceived civilizational identities significantly impact outcomes. Comparing the late 19th-century Cretan Question and the 1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, it reveals how civilizational factors obstruct collective mediation processes. In both cases, conflicting parties held perceptions of civilizational proximity or distance to the collective mediators, diverting mediation process from established international peace frameworks. The mediation process in Crete failed to deter separatism driven by religious self-determination, resulting in a peace design incongruent with prevailing international peace framework (Richmond, Oliver P. 2022. The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2021. Similarly, the OSCE Minsk Group’s efforts in Nagorno-Karabakh faced challenges aligning with normative mandates from the UN peace framework. This analysis illuminates complexities in mediation influenced by civilizational perceptions and highlighting the need to address civilizational deviation for international peace.
Our third monthly pick is "Civilizational Deviation in Collective Mediation: A Comparative Analysis of the Cretan Question and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" by Cavit Emre Aytekin (Kafkas Üniversitesi) & Mehmet Akif Okur (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi).
#Conflict
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Since the 2000s, two parallel phenomena – the “third wave of autocratisation” and the “reaffirmation of authoritarian great powers” – have contributed to the development of the autocracy promotion literature. This scholarship shows conceptual problems and increasingly evident scope issues. These issues arise from neglecting phenomena tied to the more assertive foreign policy of prominent autocracies, including corrosive capital, digital authoritarianism and disinformation, or new surveillance tools. Such factors contribute to autocratisation processes in both democracies and autocracies. Hence, we propose a branching tree typology to map the conceptual space of the international dimension of autocratisation. Our typology tackles both conceptual and scope issues, highlighting the growing relevance of indirect forms of external influence on autocratisation, which we call “indirect democracy prevention/erosion”. Our goal is to stimulate debate among both IR and comparative politics scholars, encouraging innovative approaches to assess the role of the international dimension in contemporary autocratisation processes.
Global Society has a new #OnlineFirst publication out by Antonino Castaldo and Marcelo Camerlo (both @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social), "The International Dimension of Autocratisation: New Challenges for Democracy".
Do give it a read!
#Autocracy #Russia #China
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International Relations (IR) and related social science disciplines focusing on peace and conflict studies have enabled a bureaucratic understanding of peacebuilding and a liberal form of peace. This has extended into a neoliberal type of statebuilding. There is now an impressive international architecture for peace, but its engagement with its subjects in everyday contexts has been less impressive. An earlier group of conflict researchers, grouped around John Burton and later A.J.R. Groom, have long argued that this is partly because IR has concentrated on elite power, problem-solving methodology and positivist epistemologies. It has failed to understand the dynamics, agency and hybridity of human society and institutions when it comes to peace, or that inequality is conflict inducing. Rescuing peacebuilding from neoliberal epistemological frameworks requires an anthropological and ethnographic sensitivity.
Our second monthly pick for September is Oliver P. Richmond's (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess article, "Rescuing Peacebuilding? Anthropology and Peace Formation". Be sure to click the link below and give it a read!
#Peace #Conflict #Neoliberalism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
