Nick Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2283-3022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Open to open-source AI? Navigating AI model choice in public sector agencies
Public sector Agencies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools. High quality open-source AI (OSAI) options are available, but much of their current attention is on proprietary options such as Copilot and ChatGPT. There are parallels with take-up of open-source software (OSS). While OSS has a foothold in niche functions of Agencies' technology suites, it has not seen widespread adoption despite backing from technical and polit…
Children’s literature and/as political critique
The forcible removal of unwanted individuals from the body politic – as, say, illicit migrants or terrorists – is a prominent feature of contemporary world politics. This prominence, and its typical storying from the vantage point of the national or communal ‘self’ needing protection, risks rendering exclusionary politics and their considerable harms unremarkable, even unremarked. In this article, we argue that children’s literature offers a powe…
Professional Autonomy, Casualisation and Wage Theft in Australian Universities
MARKED by conversations regarding the crisis of precarity at universities and the disjuncture between the working conditions of the 'tenured' professoriate and of the large and growing number of insecurely employed academics.This is in some ways surprising, given that only one of the book's chapters deals directly with 'The Permanent Crisis of Graduate Education', and even this is only a supplement to the primary investigation into the formation …
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo
The article explores the complicity of children’s picturebooks in the construction and critique of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo , it argues that this spectacularly successful book: (1) stories the international as a pessimistic, anarchical world populated by self-interested, survival-seekers; (2) disrupts this reading and its assumptions through evocation of the social production of threat; and, (3) provides a more fundamental decolon…
Beyond the shadow of 9/11? Videogames 20 years after 9/11
Played by billions, videogames have become perhaps the pre-eminent way in which the public experience, engage with, and encounter the war on terror and its legacies. Commentators argue that military videogames were widely played by citizens who found solace in “spectacular war”, becoming “bedazzled” and willing participants – what Stahl terms “virtual citizen soldiers” – in highly “orientalist” representations of conflict. Finally, there remains …
Playing for Hate? Extremism, Terrorism, and Videogames
Although the production of videogames by extremist and terrorist groups has markedly declined since a high point in the 2000s, game-based interventions remain highly significant, whether through the adoption of gaming-based iconography in extremist and terrorist social media campaigns or through the activity of modders and groups’ supporters who continue to make games championing extremists and terrorists. Building on Conway’s 2017 call to look a…
War, time, and military videogames
This article contributes to a small, but growing, scholarship on military videogames. Focusing, specifically, on diverse manifestations of temporality within these games, it demonstrates that this genre is both more diverse, and has greater critical potential, than is often recognised. The article begins with a brief overview of contemporary scholarship on temporality, war and global politics. A second section then identifies three different ways…
Forum
Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digit…
The Politics of Agenda Setting
Politics of Agenda Setting
Judicial Architecture and Capacity
This chapter examines the structure of the Indian judiciary, which includes the different types of courts and judges as well as the hierarchies and relations between them. In particular, it considers the appeal and stare decisis, along with the system of internal administrative control through which the Indian judiciary coordinates its behaviour. The discussion begins with an overview of India’s judicial system and the relevant provisions of the …
Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media
Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” asking questions about how we understand what we see and the social and political consequences of that seeing. One of the greatest challenges facing researchers is developing methods that can help us understand visual politics. Much of the literature has fallen into the familiar qualitative versus quantitative methodological binary, with a strong bias in favor…
Militarism and opposition in the living room
This article explores the importance of videogames and their associated promotional media for both militarism and the resulting opposition. It focuses on the games Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor Warfighter – two mainstream, commercially successful military combat games which purport to offer an ‘authentic’ experience of post 9/11 military action to the player – to develop a framework to explore the role of videogames in this area. First, in te…
Have You Won the War on Terror? Military Videogames and the State of American Exceptionalism
Videogames matter and they matter for international politics. With popular culture increasingly acknowledged as a valuable site for opening up new ways of interrogating theory, this article argues that important insights for the critical understanding of American exceptionalism can be developed through the study of military videogames. At one level, military videogames illustrate a number of prominent themes within American exceptionalism: they o…
Europe United
Structure Matters
The United States Supreme Court sits as a unified bench of nine justices. The Indian Supreme Court sits in panels, and can have up to thirty-one judges. This article uses the divergent structures of the U.S. and Indian Supreme Courts to explore how specific court structures are adopted to promote different values or understandings of what a supreme court should be. It analyzes how structure impacts: (1) access to these courts; (2) the cohesivenes…
Videogames, Persuasion and the War on Terror
This article presents a call for political scientists to look seriously at videogames. Beginning with a demonstration of their growing importance, the article then sets out the existing game-related literature which demonstrates their persuasive potential. The importance of games for political studies is illustrated through an in-depth discussion of the link between videogames and the militarisation of politics and society: exploration of the rol…
Informal power in regional organizations
The existing literature on informal policy in the European Union is a real strength of European studies, yet it fails to engage systematically with a discussion of power. This paper sets out to address this shortfall. Beginning with a contextual discussion of the literature on ‘formal’ policy‐making, it provides a comprehensive review of the existing literature on informal policy in the EU, arguing that even though power is not acknowledged withi…
Making European Citizens
More than a Regulatory State
The Politics of the Fuel Protests
The European union's environmental agenda
European Environmental Policy: The Pioneers edited by Mikael Skou Andersen and Duncan Liefferink (Issues in Environmental Politics Series). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 340; index. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7190 5043 X International Policy‐Making as a Learning Process? The European Union and the Greenhouse Effect by Markus Jachtenfuchs (Avebury Studies in Green Research). Aldershot: Avebury, 1996. Pp.x +222; annex. £32.50 (…
The supra-national technological fix
Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration edited B. Braden, Henk Folmer and Thomas S. Ulen (New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series), Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 488; index. £59.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 85898 217 0 Environment, Incentives and the Common Market edited by Frank J. Dietz, Herman R. J. Vollebergh and Jan L. de Vries (Environment and Policy Series). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Pp.vi + …
Have You Won the War on Terror? Military Videogames and the State of American Exceptionalism
Videogames matter and they matter for international politics. With popular culture increasingly acknowledged as a valuable site for opening up new ways of interrogating theory, this article argues that important insights for the critical understanding of American exceptionalism can be developed through the study of military videogames. At one level, military videogames illustrate a number of prominent themes within American exceptionalism: they o…
Videogames, Persuasion and the War on Terror
This article presents a call for political scientists to look seriously at videogames. Beginning with a demonstration of their growing importance, the article then sets out the existing game-related literature which demonstrates their persuasive potential. The importance of games for political studies is illustrated through an in-depth discussion of the link between videogames and the militarisation of politics and society: exploration of the rol…
War, time, and military videogames
This article contributes to a small, but growing, scholarship on military videogames. Focusing, specifically, on diverse manifestations of temporality within these games, it demonstrates that this genre is both more diverse, and has greater critical potential, than is often recognised. The article begins with a brief overview of contemporary scholarship on temporality, war and global politics. A second section then identifies three different ways…
Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media
Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” asking questions about how we understand what we see and the social and political consequences of that seeing. One of the greatest challenges facing researchers is developing methods that can help us understand visual politics. Much of the literature has fallen into the familiar qualitative versus quantitative methodological binary, with a strong bias in favor…
Forum
Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digit…
Militarism and opposition in the living room
This article explores the importance of videogames and their associated promotional media for both militarism and the resulting opposition. It focuses on the games Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor Warfighter – two mainstream, commercially successful military combat games which purport to offer an ‘authentic’ experience of post 9/11 military action to the player – to develop a framework to explore the role of videogames in this area. First, in te…
Playing for Hate? Extremism, Terrorism, and Videogames
Although the production of videogames by extremist and terrorist groups has markedly declined since a high point in the 2000s, game-based interventions remain highly significant, whether through the adoption of gaming-based iconography in extremist and terrorist social media campaigns or through the activity of modders and groups’ supporters who continue to make games championing extremists and terrorists. Building on Conway’s 2017 call to look a…
The Politics of the Fuel Protests
Structure Matters
The United States Supreme Court sits as a unified bench of nine justices. The Indian Supreme Court sits in panels, and can have up to thirty-one judges. This article uses the divergent structures of the U.S. and Indian Supreme Courts to explore how specific court structures are adopted to promote different values or understandings of what a supreme court should be. It analyzes how structure impacts: (1) access to these courts; (2) the cohesivenes…
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo
The article explores the complicity of children’s picturebooks in the construction and critique of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo , it argues that this spectacularly successful book: (1) stories the international as a pessimistic, anarchical world populated by self-interested, survival-seekers; (2) disrupts this reading and its assumptions through evocation of the social production of threat; and, (3) provides a more fundamental decolon…
More than a Regulatory State
The supra-national technological fix
Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration edited B. Braden, Henk Folmer and Thomas S. Ulen (New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series), Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 488; index. £59.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 85898 217 0 Environment, Incentives and the Common Market edited by Frank J. Dietz, Herman R. J. Vollebergh and Jan L. de Vries (Environment and Policy Series). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Pp.vi + …
The supra-national technological fix
Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration edited B. Braden, Henk Folmer and Thomas S. Ulen (New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series), Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp.xiii + 488; index. £59.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 85898 217 0 Environment, Incentives and the Common Market edited by Frank J. Dietz, Herman R. J. Vollebergh and Jan L. de Vries (Environment and Policy Series). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Pp.vi + …
The European union's environmental agenda
European Environmental Policy: The Pioneers edited by Mikael Skou Andersen and Duncan Liefferink (Issues in Environmental Politics Series). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 340; index. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7190 5043 X International Policy‐Making as a Learning Process? The European Union and the Greenhouse Effect by Markus Jachtenfuchs (Avebury Studies in Green Research). Aldershot: Avebury, 1996. Pp.x +222; annex. £32.50 (…
The Politics of the Fuel Protests
More than a Regulatory State
Making European Citizens
Informal power in regional organizations
The existing literature on informal policy in the European Union is a real strength of European studies, yet it fails to engage systematically with a discussion of power. This paper sets out to address this shortfall. Beginning with a contextual discussion of the literature on ‘formal’ policy‐making, it provides a comprehensive review of the existing literature on informal policy in the EU, arguing that even though power is not acknowledged withi…
Europe United
Structure Matters
The United States Supreme Court sits as a unified bench of nine justices. The Indian Supreme Court sits in panels, and can have up to thirty-one judges. This article uses the divergent structures of the U.S. and Indian Supreme Courts to explore how specific court structures are adopted to promote different values or understandings of what a supreme court should be. It analyzes how structure impacts: (1) access to these courts; (2) the cohesivenes…
Videogames, Persuasion and the War on Terror
This article presents a call for political scientists to look seriously at videogames. Beginning with a demonstration of their growing importance, the article then sets out the existing game-related literature which demonstrates their persuasive potential. The importance of games for political studies is illustrated through an in-depth discussion of the link between videogames and the militarisation of politics and society: exploration of the rol…
Have You Won the War on Terror? Military Videogames and the State of American Exceptionalism
Videogames matter and they matter for international politics. With popular culture increasingly acknowledged as a valuable site for opening up new ways of interrogating theory, this article argues that important insights for the critical understanding of American exceptionalism can be developed through the study of military videogames. At one level, military videogames illustrate a number of prominent themes within American exceptionalism: they o…
Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media
Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” asking questions about how we understand what we see and the social and political consequences of that seeing. One of the greatest challenges facing researchers is developing methods that can help us understand visual politics. Much of the literature has fallen into the familiar qualitative versus quantitative methodological binary, with a strong bias in favor…
Militarism and opposition in the living room
This article explores the importance of videogames and their associated promotional media for both militarism and the resulting opposition. It focuses on the games Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor Warfighter – two mainstream, commercially successful military combat games which purport to offer an ‘authentic’ experience of post 9/11 military action to the player – to develop a framework to explore the role of videogames in this area. First, in te…
Judicial Architecture and Capacity
This chapter examines the structure of the Indian judiciary, which includes the different types of courts and judges as well as the hierarchies and relations between them. In particular, it considers the appeal and stare decisis, along with the system of internal administrative control through which the Indian judiciary coordinates its behaviour. The discussion begins with an overview of India’s judicial system and the relevant provisions of the …
The Politics of Agenda Setting
Politics of Agenda Setting
Forum
Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digit…
Beyond the shadow of 9/11? Videogames 20 years after 9/11
Played by billions, videogames have become perhaps the pre-eminent way in which the public experience, engage with, and encounter the war on terror and its legacies. Commentators argue that military videogames were widely played by citizens who found solace in “spectacular war”, becoming “bedazzled” and willing participants – what Stahl terms “virtual citizen soldiers” – in highly “orientalist” representations of conflict. Finally, there remains …
Playing for Hate? Extremism, Terrorism, and Videogames
Although the production of videogames by extremist and terrorist groups has markedly declined since a high point in the 2000s, game-based interventions remain highly significant, whether through the adoption of gaming-based iconography in extremist and terrorist social media campaigns or through the activity of modders and groups’ supporters who continue to make games championing extremists and terrorists. Building on Conway’s 2017 call to look a…
War, time, and military videogames
This article contributes to a small, but growing, scholarship on military videogames. Focusing, specifically, on diverse manifestations of temporality within these games, it demonstrates that this genre is both more diverse, and has greater critical potential, than is often recognised. The article begins with a brief overview of contemporary scholarship on temporality, war and global politics. A second section then identifies three different ways…
Professional Autonomy, Casualisation and Wage Theft in Australian Universities
MARKED by conversations regarding the crisis of precarity at universities and the disjuncture between the working conditions of the 'tenured' professoriate and of the large and growing number of insecurely employed academics.This is in some ways surprising, given that only one of the book's chapters deals directly with 'The Permanent Crisis of Graduate Education', and even this is only a supplement to the primary investigation into the formation …
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo
The article explores the complicity of children’s picturebooks in the construction and critique of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo , it argues that this spectacularly successful book: (1) stories the international as a pessimistic, anarchical world populated by self-interested, survival-seekers; (2) disrupts this reading and its assumptions through evocation of the social production of threat; and, (3) provides a more fundamental decolon…
Children’s literature and/as political critique
The forcible removal of unwanted individuals from the body politic – as, say, illicit migrants or terrorists – is a prominent feature of contemporary world politics. This prominence, and its typical storying from the vantage point of the national or communal ‘self’ needing protection, risks rendering exclusionary politics and their considerable harms unremarkable, even unremarked. In this article, we argue that children’s literature offers a powe…
Open to open-source AI? Navigating AI model choice in public sector agencies
Public sector Agencies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools. High quality open-source AI (OSAI) options are available, but much of their current attention is on proprietary options such as Copilot and ChatGPT. There are parallels with take-up of open-source software (OSS). While OSS has a foothold in niche functions of Agencies' technology suites, it has not seen widespread adoption despite backing from technical and polit…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works)