Donna Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Entering the Global Arena: Emerging States, Soft Power Strategies and Sports Mega-Events
The political economy of dive tourism: Precarity at the periphery in Malaysia
Using a critical political economy approach and the concept of labour precarity, the international dive tourism industry in Sabah, Malaysia and its workers’ vulnerabilities are interrogated. Fieldwork data highlights dive tourism’s socio-economic impacts and the precarity of labour within the international tourism sector and also critiques it as a development strategy for a peripheral region. The paper challenges the optimistic views of labour pr…
Implementing the Employability Agenda: A Critical Review of Curriculum Developments in Political Science and International Relations in English Universities
This article draws on research commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and conducted during 2013. It interrogates the ways in which the employability agenda has been fed through to the level of individual politics departments. The project was particularly concerned with establishing whether, and how, colleagues in politics and international relations (IR) had taken ownership of student employability at the level of the curriculum. In t…
What's Queer about Political Science
Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most cited social theorists of all time. Yet political science remains distinctly untroubled by queer theory, and gender and sexuality are frequently treated as marginal (not central) concerns. We argue that queer …
Corporeal Capitalism: The Body in International Political Economy
This themed section takes as its starting point the premise that the body matters in \nInternational Political Economy (IPE) and presents four original articles which support \nand illustrate this ontologically critical and, perhaps, provocative position. Although \nfeminist scholarship has undoubtedly gained a place at the table in IPE, it is curious that \none of the most important concerns, and contributions, of feminist IPE – that global \nca…
The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states
International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket – the all-inclusive holiday in a luxury hotel, resort or cruise ship. While this industry generates employment, foreign direct investment, and income for island governments and the private sector,…
The Argumentative Dimension to the EU-Africa EPAs
Not only is the participation of developing countries in international trade negotiations growing, so is their influence over the global trade agenda. This article highlights the increasing activism and impact of African states through a detailed study of the current Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) negotiations with the European Union (EU). In examining African resistance to EPAs, the article develops a constructivist approach to North-Sout…
Soft Power, Sports Mega-Events and Emerging States: The Lure of the Politics of Attraction
This article highlights and analyses a hitherto largely neglected dimension to the growing agency of large developing countries in global affairs: their hosting of international sports mega-events. Why are large developing countries hosting sports mega-events and what does this contemporary phenomenon tell us about the significance of, for example, the Olympics and the World Cup in global affairs? We explore these questions through brief examinat…
Global Trade Governance and the Challenges of African Activism in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
This article develops a bottom-up approach to global trade governance and explains how subordinate states are able to develop resistance strategies to top-down processes in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It highlights the growing activism and influence of African states in the global governance of international trade through a case study of the involvement of African states in the current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. In so doi…
Sexual and reproductive health activities in HIV programmes: Can we monitor progress
BACKGROUND: Resource allocation and integration of services have been of interest recently to achieve health-related Millennium Development Goals. This paper analyses the extent to which countries receiving funding in HIV were able to invest in activities in the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). METHODS: The authors screened the Global Fund grants data with an aggregate investment of US$16 billion in 140 countries to identify indicato…
Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy
This article supports growing calls to ‘take small states seriously’ in the international political economy but questions prevailing interpretations that ‘smallness’ entails inherent qualities that create unique constraints on, and opportunities for, small states. Instead, we argue that discourses surrounding the ‘inherent vulnerability’ of small states, especially developing and less-developed states, may produce the very outcomes that are attri…
The Diplomacy of WTO Accession
Small States in the International Political Economy
This special issue brings together several articles on the political economy of small states in the international system. In recent years there has been growing recognition across the social scienc
The Political Economy of Small African States in the WTO
Small states have come to play an increasingly active part in multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) such that small state activism has been a major contributory factor in the continuing delay in concluding the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. This suggests that small states are no longer bit players and are instead key actors in the WTO. Through the formation of a range of alliances, small developing sta…
The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations (Studies in Diplomacy and Inter)
The Diplomacy of Proximity and Specialness: Enhancing Canada's Representation in the United States
Diplomatic representation, both as a concept and in terms of its structures and processes, does not receive the attention that it deserves. This is surprising given that it forms a central concern for both analysts and practitioners of diplomacy, with the latter confronting multiple challenges in adapting modes of representation to changes in their international and domestic political environments. One facet of this can be identified in responses…
Latin American Research Review Volume 42 Number 1, 2007
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Pieces on Our Craft: Size Matters: Small States and International Studies
In recent years, there has been growing recognition within international studies that big (normally synonymous with “power”) is not always best. In contrast to the traditional IR focus on great powers, a number of authors have highlighted the need to “take small states seriously” in international studies and challenged Kenneth Waltz’s claim that the “story of international relations is written in terms of the great powers.” In part, this shift in…
The Growing Influence of Business in U.K. Diplomacy
No
The old and new significance of political economy in diplomacy
In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, their trade and foreign ministries, as well as the stra…
Forthcoming in Volume 38 Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
New Technologies in the Politics Classroom: Using Internet Classrooms to Support Teaching and Learning
This article introduces some ideas about using internet classrooms to enrich the experience of those learning and teaching politics. It draws and reflects upon my three-year experience of using internet classrooms to teach politics in optional and compulsory politics undergraduate modules, providing critical evaluation of the successes and problems involved. Much of what the article discusses can be applied to most, if not all, politics modules a…
Endgame at the Kennedy round: A case study of multilateral economic diplomacy
During the details stage of multilateral economic talks, agreements are usually negotiated using a combination of two methods ‐ compromise on individual issues and tit‐for‐tat exchanges. This article identifies the circumstances in which the the US, EEC and British delegations employed these traditional diplomatic techniques, and assesses the effectiveness of these techniques in forging agreement in the details stage of the Kennedy Round, Providi…
A Middle Power Paradox? South African Diplomacy in the Post-apartheid Era
Academic and media discourse on the conduct of South Africa's foreign relations has acquired an almost schizophrenic character in the post-1994 period. On one level, there has been fulsome praise for the country's successful reintegration with the international mainstream. On a second level, however, the new government has been criticized for its inability to articulate a coherent foreign policy agenda, to prioritize its various international rel…
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Soft Power, Sports Mega-Events and Emerging States: The Lure of the Politics of Attraction
This article highlights and analyses a hitherto largely neglected dimension to the growing agency of large developing countries in global affairs: their hosting of international sports mega-events. Why are large developing countries hosting sports mega-events and what does this contemporary phenomenon tell us about the significance of, for example, the Olympics and the World Cup in global affairs? We explore these questions through brief examinat…
The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states
International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket – the all-inclusive holiday in a luxury hotel, resort or cruise ship. While this industry generates employment, foreign direct investment, and income for island governments and the private sector,…
What's Queer about Political Science
Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most cited social theorists of all time. Yet political science remains distinctly untroubled by queer theory, and gender and sexuality are frequently treated as marginal (not central) concerns. We argue that queer …
The Argumentative Dimension to the EU-Africa EPAs
Not only is the participation of developing countries in international trade negotiations growing, so is their influence over the global trade agenda. This article highlights the increasing activism and impact of African states through a detailed study of the current Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) negotiations with the European Union (EU). In examining African resistance to EPAs, the article develops a constructivist approach to North-Sout…
The Political Economy of Small African States in the WTO
Small states have come to play an increasingly active part in multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) such that small state activism has been a major contributory factor in the continuing delay in concluding the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. This suggests that small states are no longer bit players and are instead key actors in the WTO. Through the formation of a range of alliances, small developing sta…
New Technologies in the Politics Classroom: Using Internet Classrooms to Support Teaching and Learning
This article introduces some ideas about using internet classrooms to enrich the experience of those learning and teaching politics. It draws and reflects upon my three-year experience of using internet classrooms to teach politics in optional and compulsory politics undergraduate modules, providing critical evaluation of the successes and problems involved. Much of what the article discusses can be applied to most, if not all, politics modules a…
A Middle Power Paradox? South African Diplomacy in the Post-apartheid Era
Academic and media discourse on the conduct of South Africa's foreign relations has acquired an almost schizophrenic character in the post-1994 period. On one level, there has been fulsome praise for the country's successful reintegration with the international mainstream. On a second level, however, the new government has been criticized for its inability to articulate a coherent foreign policy agenda, to prioritize its various international rel…
Corporeal Capitalism: The Body in International Political Economy
This themed section takes as its starting point the premise that the body matters in \nInternational Political Economy (IPE) and presents four original articles which support \nand illustrate this ontologically critical and, perhaps, provocative position. Although \nfeminist scholarship has undoubtedly gained a place at the table in IPE, it is curious that \none of the most important concerns, and contributions, of feminist IPE – that global \nca…
Global Trade Governance and the Challenges of African Activism in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
This article develops a bottom-up approach to global trade governance and explains how subordinate states are able to develop resistance strategies to top-down processes in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It highlights the growing activism and influence of African states in the global governance of international trade through a case study of the involvement of African states in the current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. In so doi…
The old and new significance of political economy in diplomacy
In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, their trade and foreign ministries, as well as the stra…
The political economy of dive tourism: Precarity at the periphery in Malaysia
Using a critical political economy approach and the concept of labour precarity, the international dive tourism industry in Sabah, Malaysia and its workers’ vulnerabilities are interrogated. Fieldwork data highlights dive tourism’s socio-economic impacts and the precarity of labour within the international tourism sector and also critiques it as a development strategy for a peripheral region. The paper challenges the optimistic views of labour pr…
Small States in the International Political Economy
This special issue brings together several articles on the political economy of small states in the international system. In recent years there has been growing recognition across the social scienc
The Growing Influence of Business in U.K. Diplomacy
No
Endgame at the Kennedy round: A case study of multilateral economic diplomacy
During the details stage of multilateral economic talks, agreements are usually negotiated using a combination of two methods ‐ compromise on individual issues and tit‐for‐tat exchanges. This article identifies the circumstances in which the the US, EEC and British delegations employed these traditional diplomatic techniques, and assesses the effectiveness of these techniques in forging agreement in the details stage of the Kennedy Round, Providi…
Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy
This article supports growing calls to ‘take small states seriously’ in the international political economy but questions prevailing interpretations that ‘smallness’ entails inherent qualities that create unique constraints on, and opportunities for, small states. Instead, we argue that discourses surrounding the ‘inherent vulnerability’ of small states, especially developing and less-developed states, may produce the very outcomes that are attri…
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Middle powers in the global economy: British influence during the opening phase of the Kennedy Trade Round negotiations, 1962–4
This article reassesses the preparatory negotiations which launched the Kennedy Trade Round (KTR) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), in search of a role for Britain. My purpose is to make two challenges, one theoretical, the other empirical. Theoretically, this study questions the predominant focus on the structural power of major states that characterizes the study of international relations in general, and of the GATT in part…
Endgame at the Kennedy round: A case study of multilateral economic diplomacy
During the details stage of multilateral economic talks, agreements are usually negotiated using a combination of two methods ‐ compromise on individual issues and tit‐for‐tat exchanges. This article identifies the circumstances in which the the US, EEC and British delegations employed these traditional diplomatic techniques, and assesses the effectiveness of these techniques in forging agreement in the details stage of the Kennedy Round, Providi…
A Middle Power Paradox? South African Diplomacy in the Post-apartheid Era
Academic and media discourse on the conduct of South Africa's foreign relations has acquired an almost schizophrenic character in the post-1994 period. On one level, there has been fulsome praise for the country's successful reintegration with the international mainstream. On a second level, however, the new government has been criticized for its inability to articulate a coherent foreign policy agenda, to prioritize its various international rel…
Forthcoming in Volume 38 Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
New Technologies in the Politics Classroom: Using Internet Classrooms to Support Teaching and Learning
This article introduces some ideas about using internet classrooms to enrich the experience of those learning and teaching politics. It draws and reflects upon my three-year experience of using internet classrooms to teach politics in optional and compulsory politics undergraduate modules, providing critical evaluation of the successes and problems involved. Much of what the article discusses can be applied to most, if not all, politics modules a…
The Growing Influence of Business in U.K. Diplomacy
No
The old and new significance of political economy in diplomacy
In a growing number of countries diplomatic systems are being overhauled so that the commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralised, the commercial activities of diplomats have been extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems. These changes result directly from the tendency of governments to reorganise, and in many cases merge, their trade and foreign ministries, as well as the stra…
Pieces on Our Craft: Size Matters: Small States and International Studies
In recent years, there has been growing recognition within international studies that big (normally synonymous with “power”) is not always best. In contrast to the traditional IR focus on great powers, a number of authors have highlighted the need to “take small states seriously” in international studies and challenged Kenneth Waltz’s claim that the “story of international relations is written in terms of the great powers.” In part, this shift in…
The Diplomacy of Proximity and Specialness: Enhancing Canada's Representation in the United States
Diplomatic representation, both as a concept and in terms of its structures and processes, does not receive the attention that it deserves. This is surprising given that it forms a central concern for both analysts and practitioners of diplomacy, with the latter confronting multiple challenges in adapting modes of representation to changes in their international and domestic political environments. One facet of this can be identified in responses…
Latin American Research Review Volume 42 Number 1, 2007
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The New Public Diplomacy: Soft Power in International Relations (Studies in Diplomacy and Inter)
Small States in the International Political Economy
This special issue brings together several articles on the political economy of small states in the international system. In recent years there has been growing recognition across the social scienc
The Political Economy of Small African States in the WTO
Small states have come to play an increasingly active part in multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) such that small state activism has been a major contributory factor in the continuing delay in concluding the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. This suggests that small states are no longer bit players and are instead key actors in the WTO. Through the formation of a range of alliances, small developing sta…
The Diplomacy of WTO Accession
Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy
This article supports growing calls to ‘take small states seriously’ in the international political economy but questions prevailing interpretations that ‘smallness’ entails inherent qualities that create unique constraints on, and opportunities for, small states. Instead, we argue that discourses surrounding the ‘inherent vulnerability’ of small states, especially developing and less-developed states, may produce the very outcomes that are attri…
Sexual and reproductive health activities in HIV programmes: Can we monitor progress
BACKGROUND: Resource allocation and integration of services have been of interest recently to achieve health-related Millennium Development Goals. This paper analyses the extent to which countries receiving funding in HIV were able to invest in activities in the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). METHODS: The authors screened the Global Fund grants data with an aggregate investment of US$16 billion in 140 countries to identify indicato…
Global Trade Governance and the Challenges of African Activism in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
This article develops a bottom-up approach to global trade governance and explains how subordinate states are able to develop resistance strategies to top-down processes in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It highlights the growing activism and influence of African states in the global governance of international trade through a case study of the involvement of African states in the current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. In so doi…
The Argumentative Dimension to the EU-Africa EPAs
Not only is the participation of developing countries in international trade negotiations growing, so is their influence over the global trade agenda. This article highlights the increasing activism and impact of African states through a detailed study of the current Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) negotiations with the European Union (EU). In examining African resistance to EPAs, the article develops a constructivist approach to North-Sout…
Soft Power, Sports Mega-Events and Emerging States: The Lure of the Politics of Attraction
This article highlights and analyses a hitherto largely neglected dimension to the growing agency of large developing countries in global affairs: their hosting of international sports mega-events. Why are large developing countries hosting sports mega-events and what does this contemporary phenomenon tell us about the significance of, for example, the Olympics and the World Cup in global affairs? We explore these questions through brief examinat…
What's Queer about Political Science
Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most cited social theorists of all time. Yet political science remains distinctly untroubled by queer theory, and gender and sexuality are frequently treated as marginal (not central) concerns. We argue that queer …
Corporeal Capitalism: The Body in International Political Economy
This themed section takes as its starting point the premise that the body matters in \nInternational Political Economy (IPE) and presents four original articles which support \nand illustrate this ontologically critical and, perhaps, provocative position. Although \nfeminist scholarship has undoubtedly gained a place at the table in IPE, it is curious that \none of the most important concerns, and contributions, of feminist IPE – that global \nca…
The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states
International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket – the all-inclusive holiday in a luxury hotel, resort or cruise ship. While this industry generates employment, foreign direct investment, and income for island governments and the private sector,…
Implementing the Employability Agenda: A Critical Review of Curriculum Developments in Political Science and International Relations in English Universities
This article draws on research commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and conducted during 2013. It interrogates the ways in which the employability agenda has been fed through to the level of individual politics departments. The project was particularly concerned with establishing whether, and how, colleagues in politics and international relations (IR) had taken ownership of student employability at the level of the curriculum. In t…
The political economy of dive tourism: Precarity at the periphery in Malaysia
Using a critical political economy approach and the concept of labour precarity, the international dive tourism industry in Sabah, Malaysia and its workers’ vulnerabilities are interrogated. Fieldwork data highlights dive tourism’s socio-economic impacts and the precarity of labour within the international tourism sector and also critiques it as a development strategy for a peripheral region. The paper challenges the optimistic views of labour pr…
Political science (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Diplomacy (8 works) · International trade (8 works) · Economy (6 works)