Lee Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4825-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 519 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The emergence and politics of polyalignment
In the Second Cold War between the US and China, middle ground countries are overwhelmingly refusing to choose sides. However, despite resultant talk of ‘new non-alignment’, they do not seek to keep major states at arm’s length, as in the first Cold War; rather, they seek to build and maintain connections with rival players as much as possible, reflecting their attachment to the deep networks created under globalisation in the decades since 1989.…
Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War
Explaining China’s approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: A State Transformation Analysis
International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China
China's rise as a major development financing provider is widely seen as challenging traditional donor states' influence over the norms and institutions of global development and over aid recipients. Amid intensifying geopolitical rivalry, now often called a new or second Cold War, some argue that traditional donors are adopting Chinese-style practices to compete with China for developing countries' allegiance. This article supports the convergen…
Social functioning in adults with visual impairment from minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom
Background Visual impairment (V.I.) has been associated with a negative impact on social functioning, while social support can impact on well-being in those with V.I. Adults from minority ethnic communities (MEC) are projected to make up an increasing proportion of adults living with V.I. in the UK, but limited research has explored their social functioning. This article provides a preliminary insight into social functioning among MEC adults livi…
Access to eye care and support services among adults from minority ethnic communities living with visual impairment in the United Kingdom
The preliminary findings suggests that there is scope to increase support provided by V.I. charities and the V.I. register, although, contrary to existing evidence, there were no statistically significant differences in eye health service use, registration status and use of wider support services. Further research is required to confirm these findings and explore reasons for differences
Improving the strategy to identify historical military remains: A literature review and Y-STR meta-analysis
The identification of historical military remains by Unrecovered War Casualties—Army (UWC-A) currently relies on Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) testing when maternal relatives are not available, or when a mitochondrial DNA match does not provide sufficient certainty of identification. However, common Y-STR profiles (using YfilerTM) between sets of remains or families often prevent identification. To resolve these cases, an investigation…
High-resolution geophysical monitoring of moisture accumulation preceding slope movement—a path to improved early warning
Slope failures are an ongoing global threat leading to significant numbers of fatalities and infrastructure damage. Landslide impact on communities can be reduced using efficient early warning systems to plan mitigation measures and protect elements at risk. This manuscript presents an innovative geophysical approach to monitoring landslide dynamics, which combines electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and low-frequency distributed acoustic sen…
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance
China, international competition and the stalemate in sovereign debt restructuring: Beyond Geopolitics
Until recently, developing countries were supposedly enjoying an unprecedented 'age of choice' when borrowing. Many observers were arguing then that geopolitical competition between lenders allowed them to extract better terms. Today, many face a looming debt crisis: financing options have shrivelled and restructuring talks are painfully slow, compounding debtors' misery. This is frequently attributed to creditors' geopolitical rivalry, reflectin…
A rapid review of evidence relating to service use, experiences, and support needs of adults from minority ethnic communities along the eyecare pathway in the United Kingdom
Background There is growing awareness of the health inequalities experienced by minority ethnic communities, who make up an increasing proportion of the United Kingdom (UK) population and have been found to be at increased risk of visual impairment (V.I.). V.I. impacts on a wide range of life domains including employment, social functioning and activities of daily living. Considering existing health inequalities, the increased risk of V.I. and it…
Future Directions to Manage Wildlife Health in a Changing Climate
Multistage Psychometric Testing of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool
People experiencing homelessness find it challenging to access the healthcare they so desperately need. To address this, we have developed the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool, which assesses health related vulnerability (burden of injury and/or illness and ability to access healthcare) and can be used to prioritize people for access to healthcare. Here, we report the initial psychometrics of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool. To assess …
Explaining the failure of global health governance during Covid-19
Global health governance (GHG) was one of COVID-19's earliest victims. Soon after the novel coronavirus escaped China, the World Health Organization (WHO) was marginalized, and the International Health Regulations became practically irrelevant, as nations adopted uncoordinated, ad hoc responses. Existing explanations of GHG's collapse are largely utopian, criticizing states for failing to empower the WHO with sufficient supranational authority. T…
Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise
Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese behaviour abroad is often not the product of a cohere…
Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Disengagement to Embrace
Myanmar's response to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has changed from cool disengagement under the Thein Sein government (2011–2016) to an increasingly warm embrace under the National League for Democracy (2016–). This article explains this development with reference to the changing nature of domestic authority relations, which conditions how Myanmar's governments manage their asymmetric relations with China (as outlined in the special is…
Reframing the rising powers debate: State transformation and foreign policy
The volume that we introduce breaks with the prevalent tendency in International Relations (IR) scholarship to treat rising powers (such as China, Russia, India and Brazil) as unitary actors in international politics. Although a neat demarcation of the domestic and international domains, on which the notion of unitary agency is premised, has always been a myth, these states’ uneven integration into the global political economy has eroded this per…
China’s Response to Threats to Its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony
Chinese firms have acquired enormous overseas interests since 2000. As relative latecomers to global markets, they often invest in territories subject to high political risk, which is often heightened by poorly regulated Chinese practices. This article describes these risks to China’s growing overseas economic interests and explores China’s response to them. First, the Chinese party-state is gradually softening its insistence on ‘non-interference…
The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China's Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation
Surprisingly, perhaps, China's flagship Belt and Road Initiative expresses a familiar mix of the security–development nexus and liberal interdependence thesis: Chinese leaders expect economic development and integration will stabilise and secure neighbouring states and improve inter-state relations. However, drawing on the record of China's intensive economic interaction with Myanmar, we argue that the opposite outcome may occur, for two reasons.…
Political Economy
This chapter provides a basic, general overview of the main features of Myanmar&s;s political economy. Myanmar&s;s economy today contrasts starkly with those of its more developed Southeast Asian neighbours like Thailand and Malaysia. The chapter explores the two major dynamics shaping this outcome: the failure of Cold War-era &s;socialist&s; development, which retarded the development of class forces and locked Myanmar into a resource-exporting,…
Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving From Description to Explanation
A rapidly growing, self-identified scholarly subfield on “Security Governance” has recently emerged. Its signal contribution has been to explicate the expansion of security governance beyond traditional defense multilateralism to include diverse actors, networked transnationally across multiple scales. However, this literature is predominantly descriptive and evaluative. Lacking an explanatory theory, it struggles to explain security governance o…
Theorizing Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of State Transformation: A New Framework and Case Study of China
There is growing evidence of the transformation of statehood under globalization, specifically, the fragmentation, decentralization and internationalization of state apparatuses. While most pronounced in Western Europe, these trends are observable worldwide. Foreign policy analysis (FPA) and international relations (IR) theory have fundamentally failed to keep pace with this epochal development. These traditions still largely understand states as…
China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the Aiib
Many observers of international politics detect a growing Chinese challenge to the rules-based, liberal international order. In particular, some saw Beijing's recent creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a threat to existing organizations governing international development financing. This article broadly concurs with more sanguine accounts emphasizing the AIIB's similarity to existing multilateral development banks. Howe…
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland
A detailed, 1:10,500-scale, surficial geology and glacial geomorphology map of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts the landsystem imprint of Holocene glacier fluctuations, volcanogenic outburst floods and recent (post-1990) climate-induced rapid ice-front retreat. The map is based on field survey data in combination with 2012 airborne LiDAR data, 2009–2012 terrestrial LiDAR data and 2007 col…
The Political Economy of Myanmar's Transition
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA, 07 Feb 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00472336.2013.764143
Explaining Myanmar's regime transition: The Periphery Is Central
In 2010, Myanmar (Burma) held its first elections after 22 years of direct military rule. Few compelling explanations for this regime transition have emerged. This article critiques popular accounts and potential explanations generated by theories of authoritarian â regime breakdownâ and â regime maintenanceâ . It returns instead to the classical literature on military intervention and withdrawal. Military regimes, when not terminated by internal…
Rethinking the Role of State-owned Enterprises in China’s Rise
The massive overseas expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a central aspect of China’s ‘rise’ to great-power status. There is significant disagreement, however, over how to interpret SOEs’ role. Are they instruments of Chinese statecraft, being directed purposefully from Beijing as part of a ‘grand strategy’? Or are they relatively autonomous, profit-maximising businesses, their free-wheeling behaviour often undermining Chinese f…
Explaining the failure of the Asean economic community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy
The final published version of this article can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2015.1022593
Asean's unchanged melody? The theory and practice of ‘non-interference’ in Southeast Asia
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Jones, Lee. (2010). ASEAN's unchanged melody? The theory and practice of 'non-interference' in Southeast Asia. Pacific Review 23:4, 479-502 as published in PACIFIC REVIEW 2010 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09512748.2010.495996
The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security1: The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security
The international security literature has recently observed the growing â securitizationâ of issues outside the traditional concern with interstate military conflict. However, this literature offers only limited explanations of this tendency and largely neglects to explain how the new security issues are actually governed in practice, despite apparent â securitizationâ leading to divergent outcomes across time and space. We argue that the rise of…
The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China's Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation
Surprisingly, perhaps, China's flagship Belt and Road Initiative expresses a familiar mix of the security–development nexus and liberal interdependence thesis: Chinese leaders expect economic development and integration will stabilise and secure neighbouring states and improve inter-state relations. However, drawing on the record of China's intensive economic interaction with Myanmar, we argue that the opposite outcome may occur, for two reasons.…
China’s Response to Threats to Its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony
Chinese firms have acquired enormous overseas interests since 2000. As relative latecomers to global markets, they often invest in territories subject to high political risk, which is often heightened by poorly regulated Chinese practices. This article describes these risks to China’s growing overseas economic interests and explores China’s response to them. First, the Chinese party-state is gradually softening its insistence on ‘non-interference…
Global Governance as State Transformation
Many argue today that global governance is ‘in crisis’. This reflects an undue emphasis on the fate of multilateral institutions: if they are deadlocked, global governance does not appear to be progressing. This is misplaced. Today, global governance is increasingly being pursued not by erecting supranational institutions empowered to govern issue areas directly, but by transforming states’ internal governance to enact international disciplines d…
Rising powers and state transformation: The case of China
This article draws attention to the transformation of statehood under globalisation as a crucial dynamic shaping the emergence and conduct of ‘rising powers’. That states are becoming increasingly fragmented, decentralised and internationalised is noted by some international political economy and global governance scholars, but is neglected in International Relations treatments of rising powers. This article critiques this neglect, demonstrating …
Beyond Hybridity to the Politics of Scale: International Intervention and 'Local' Politics
The evident failures of international peacebuilding and statebuilding interventions (PSBIs) have recently prompted a focus on the interaction between interventions and target societies and states. Especially popular has been the 'hybridity' approach, which understands forms of peace and governance emerging through the mixing of local and international agendas and institutions. This article argues that hybridity is a highly problematic optic. Desp…
China challenges global governance? Chinese international development finance and the Aiib
Many observers of international politics detect a growing Chinese challenge to the rules-based, liberal international order. In particular, some saw Beijing's recent creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a threat to existing organizations governing international development financing. This article broadly concurs with more sanguine accounts emphasizing the AIIB's similarity to existing multilateral development banks. Howe…
(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor: Bringing Social Conflict Back In
One potential explanation for the persistent gap between international state-builders' aspirations and achievements is their misguided understanding of states as institutional apparatuses abstracted and separated from society. State-society interpenetration is actually the historical norm, and a proper understanding of state forms requires close analysis of the conflicts between different social forces as they promote state projects that will adv…
Asean intervention in Cambodia: From Cold War to conditionality
Despite their other theoretical differences, virtually all scholars of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agree that the organisation's members share an almost religious commitment to the norm of non-intervention.This article disrupts this consensus, arguing that ASEAN repeatedly intervened in Cambodia's internal political conflicts from 1979-1999, often with powerful and destructive effects.ASEAN's role in maintaining Khmer Rouge…
Reframing the rising powers debate: State transformation and foreign policy
The volume that we introduce breaks with the prevalent tendency in International Relations (IR) scholarship to treat rising powers (such as China, Russia, India and Brazil) as unitary actors in international politics. Although a neat demarcation of the domestic and international domains, on which the notion of unitary agency is premised, has always been a myth, these states’ uneven integration into the global political economy has eroded this per…
Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Disengagement to Embrace
Myanmar's response to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has changed from cool disengagement under the Thein Sein government (2011–2016) to an increasingly warm embrace under the National League for Democracy (2016–). This article explains this development with reference to the changing nature of domestic authority relations, which conditions how Myanmar's governments manage their asymmetric relations with China (as outlined in the special is…
Explaining China’s approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: A State Transformation Analysis
Democratization and foreign policy in Southeast Asia: The case of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 22, Iss. 3, 2009 as published in the CAMBRIDGE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 2009, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09557570903104008
Theorizing Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of State Transformation: A New Framework and Case Study of China
There is growing evidence of the transformation of statehood under globalization, specifically, the fragmentation, decentralization and internationalization of state apparatuses. While most pronounced in Western Europe, these trends are observable worldwide. Foreign policy analysis (FPA) and international relations (IR) theory have fundamentally failed to keep pace with this epochal development. These traditions still largely understand states as…
Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia
With the intensification of the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) worldwide campaign to promote anti-money-laundering regulation since the late 1990s, all Asian states except North Korea have signed up to its rules and have established a regional institution—the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering—to promote and oversee the implementation of FATF's 40 Recommendations in the region. This article analyses the FATF regime, making two key cla…
Explaining the failure of global health governance during Covid-19
Global health governance (GHG) was one of COVID-19's earliest victims. Soon after the novel coronavirus escaped China, the World Health Organization (WHO) was marginalized, and the International Health Regulations became practically irrelevant, as nations adopted uncoordinated, ad hoc responses. Existing explanations of GHG's collapse are largely utopian, criticizing states for failing to empower the WHO with sufficient supranational authority. T…
Exploring the Status of Black Male Faculty Utilizing Data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty
The present study utilized data from the 1993 and 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to describe the status of Black male full-time instructional faculty and staff in the academy. Data were also presented to show the degree to which certain characteristics (e.g., principle field of teaching, highest credentials attained, time spent on teaching, research, and service activities) of Black male faculty have changed in recent years. In addi…
The political economy of non-traditional security: Explaining the governance of Avian Influenza in Indonesia
China, international competition and the stalemate in sovereign debt restructuring: Beyond Geopolitics
Until recently, developing countries were supposedly enjoying an unprecedented 'age of choice' when borrowing. Many observers were arguing then that geopolitical competition between lenders allowed them to extract better terms. Today, many face a looming debt crisis: financing options have shrivelled and restructuring talks are painfully slow, compounding debtors' misery. This is frequently attributed to creditors' geopolitical rivalry, reflectin…
Contextualising archaeological models with geological, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR data: The Ice Age landscape in Farndon Fields, Nottinghamshire, UK
Identification of Variables Contributing to Definitions of Mild and Moderate Mental Retardation in Florida
Education is the most important civil rights issue facing African Americans today. This is especially true for African American males. The plight of the African American male in the United States is well-known. Nearly one in four are currently under some kind of control by the criminal justice system (i.e., jailed, on probation, etc.), and they make up more than 40% of the prison population (Kunjufu, 1993; also see Conciatore, 2000). In fact, the…
Exploring the Status of Black Male Faculty Utilizing Data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty
The present study utilized data from the 1993 and 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to describe the status of Black male full-time instructional faculty and staff in the academy. Data were also presented to show the degree to which certain characteristics (e.g., principle field of teaching, highest credentials attained, time spent on teaching, research, and service activities) of Black male faculty have changed in recent years. In addi…
Asean intervention in Cambodia: From Cold War to conditionality
Despite their other theoretical differences, virtually all scholars of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agree that the organisation's members share an almost religious commitment to the norm of non-intervention.This article disrupts this consensus, arguing that ASEAN repeatedly intervened in Cambodia's internal political conflicts from 1979-1999, often with powerful and destructive effects.ASEAN's role in maintaining Khmer Rouge…
The Others: Gender and Conscientious Objection in the First World War
Democratization and foreign policy in Southeast Asia: The case of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 22, Iss. 3, 2009 as published in the CAMBRIDGE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 2009, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09557570903104008
Asean's unchanged melody? The theory and practice of ‘non-interference’ in Southeast Asia
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Jones, Lee. (2010). ASEAN's unchanged melody? The theory and practice of 'non-interference' in Southeast Asia. Pacific Review 23:4, 479-502 as published in PACIFIC REVIEW 2010 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09512748.2010.495996
(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor: Bringing Social Conflict Back In
One potential explanation for the persistent gap between international state-builders' aspirations and achievements is their misguided understanding of states as institutional apparatuses abstracted and separated from society. State-society interpenetration is actually the historical norm, and a proper understanding of state forms requires close analysis of the conflicts between different social forces as they promote state projects that will adv…
Asean, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Sovereignty, intervention, and social order in revolutionary times
This article explores how sovereignty and (non-)intervention are implicated in the (re)production of specific social orders. Sovereignty and the non-interference principle circumscribe ‘domestic’ politics from ‘the international’, defining who is legitimately included or excluded from the struggles that determine political and social orders. State managers seek to admit forces and resources favourable to the order they are seeking to create, whil…
The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security1: The Politics and Governance of Non-Traditional Security
The international security literature has recently observed the growing â securitizationâ of issues outside the traditional concern with interstate military conflict. However, this literature offers only limited explanations of this tendency and largely neglects to explain how the new security issues are actually governed in practice, despite apparent â securitizationâ leading to divergent outcomes across time and space. We argue that the rise of…
Regulatory regionalism and anti-money-laundering governance in Asia
With the intensification of the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) worldwide campaign to promote anti-money-laundering regulation since the late 1990s, all Asian states except North Korea have signed up to its rules and have established a regional institution—the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering—to promote and oversee the implementation of FATF's 40 Recommendations in the region. This article analyses the FATF regime, making two key cla…
Explaining Myanmar's regime transition: The Periphery Is Central
In 2010, Myanmar (Burma) held its first elections after 22 years of direct military rule. Few compelling explanations for this regime transition have emerged. This article critiques popular accounts and potential explanations generated by theories of authoritarian â regime breakdownâ and â regime maintenanceâ . It returns instead to the classical literature on military intervention and withdrawal. Military regimes, when not terminated by internal…
The Political Economy of Myanmar's Transition
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA, 07 Feb 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00472336.2013.764143
Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation
'Non-traditional' security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no longer adequate, demanding and constructing new approaches to manage border-spanning threats. Drawing on critical literature in political science, political geography and political economy, this is the first book that systematically explains the outcomes of these efforts. It…
Probing the links between political economy and non-traditional security: Themes, approaches and instruments
The political economy of non-traditional security: Explaining the governance of Avian Influenza in Indonesia
Explaining the failure of the Asean economic community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy
The final published version of this article can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2015.1022593
The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies
Calls by political leaders, social activists, and international policy and aid actors for accountability reforms to improve governance have never been more widespread. For some analysts, the unprecedented scale of these pressures reflects the functional imperatives and power of liberal and democratic institutions accompanying greater global economic integration. This book offers a different perspective, investigating the crucial role of contrasti…
Global Governance as State Transformation
Many argue today that global governance is ‘in crisis’. This reflects an undue emphasis on the fate of multilateral institutions: if they are deadlocked, global governance does not appear to be progressing. This is misplaced. Today, global governance is increasingly being pursued not by erecting supranational institutions empowered to govern issue areas directly, but by transforming states’ internal governance to enact international disciplines d…
Rising powers and state transformation: The case of China
This article draws attention to the transformation of statehood under globalisation as a crucial dynamic shaping the emergence and conduct of ‘rising powers’. That states are becoming increasingly fragmented, decentralised and internationalised is noted by some international political economy and global governance scholars, but is neglected in International Relations treatments of rising powers. This article critiques this neglect, demonstrating …
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The geomorphology of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands, southeast Iceland
A detailed, 1:10,500-scale, surficial geology and glacial geomorphology map of Svínafellsjökull and Virkisjökull-Falljökull glacier forelands in southeast Iceland depicts the landsystem imprint of Holocene glacier fluctuations, volcanogenic outburst floods and recent (post-1990) climate-induced rapid ice-front retreat. The map is based on field survey data in combination with 2012 airborne LiDAR data, 2009–2012 terrestrial LiDAR data and 2007 col…
Demo hour
forum Share on Demo hour Authors: Ben Bengler University College London, Intel ICRI Cities/UCLIC University College London, Intel ICRI Cities/UCLICView Profile , Fiore Martin Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of LondonView Profile , Nick Bryan-Kinns Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of LondonView Profile , Christopher Frauenberger Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Vienna University of Technology (TU…
Contextualising archaeological models with geological, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR data: The Ice Age landscape in Farndon Fields, Nottinghamshire, UK
Rethinking the Role of State-owned Enterprises in China’s Rise
The massive overseas expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a central aspect of China’s ‘rise’ to great-power status. There is significant disagreement, however, over how to interpret SOEs’ role. Are they instruments of Chinese statecraft, being directed purposefully from Beijing as part of a ‘grand strategy’? Or are they relatively autonomous, profit-maximising businesses, their free-wheeling behaviour often undermining Chinese f…
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