Stephen Mcloughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4050376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Mcloughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcloughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLOUGHLIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5295-9705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Never Again? Mass Atrocity Early Warning Practices in the UN Secretariat
The UN Secretariat considerably increased its institutional and analytical early warning capacities after the Rwandan genocide. Yet, despite this professed commitment and prioritization, a development also supported by the emphasis on prevention in the agreement on the responsibility to protect, the UN Secretariat’s early warning work encounters frequent challenges when it comes to communicating and promoting action. To make sense of this, we exa…
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey
Globally, populism is on the rise. Studies demonstrate how populism is a ‘thin’ ideology that is articulated with ideologies ranging from authoritarianism to its challenges. Here, we examine how two politicians who, at similar times in their careers, represented themselves as inclusive and democratic, yet articulated different incarnations of populism. One of these (Turkish President Erdoğan) has since become an authoritarian populist and the oth…
Authoritarianism, Popular Resistance and Regime Change in Zambia
In 1990, after 17 years of authoritarian rule under inaugural president, Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia looked to be on the precipice of prolonged instability and violence. Authoritarianism showed no signs of softening; the country’s economic decline continued to heap misery on a population where the vast majority were already living in poverty; and the banning of opposition parties in 1973 meant that there was no legitimate political opposition to chall…
The Evolution of Mass Atrocity Early Warning in the UN Secretariat
A lack of early warning by the United Nations Secretariat of the Rwandan genocide contributed, in part, to the failure of the international community to respond in a timely manner to this crisis. In the intervening decades, alongside the strengthening of the norm of civilian protection, the UN has enhanced its capacity for early warning through greater personnel numbers, as well as the refining of risk analysis through the development of framewor…
Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today
Since the end of World War I, the people of the Middle East have lived – from Turkey to Iraq – in a world created by Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau. From the outset, the victorious powers of the War, especially Wilson, paid lip service to the principle of self-determination in addressing various nationalities, but they soon realized this great principle can be a double-edged sword whose use could cost them dearly – in …
The politics of annihilation
The story of how the ‘crime without a name’ gained a name, then stormed into common parlance has been told many times. Various biographies of the word's creator, Raphael Lemkin, are available to readers. The story of how Lemkin himself was instrumental in transforming his neologism into an international crime is also well documented. But over the last seven decades the word itself has traversed the collective imagination in ways that both illumin…
The role of political leaders in mitigating the risk of mass atrocities
This article examines the impact that three political leaders—Seretse Khama, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere—had on navigating the long-term risk associated with mass atrocities. While the scholarship on comparative genocide studies has acknowledged the crucial dimension of leadership in the perpetration of such violence, very little is known about the preventive influence of leaders in cases where risk is present. This influence works both way…
Human Protection and the Politics of Armed Intervention
Miliary intervention remains a controversial part of human protection. Indispensable in some circumstances, military intervention confronts significant structural challenges which means that it is used only rarely and has the propensity for causing unintended negative consequences. In this essay, we examine the place of humanitarian intervention within the human protection regime. Focusing on the case of Libya, we argue that the UN Security Counc…
Eliminating Rivals, Managing Rivalries
This article seeks to explore the role that leadership plays in both the perpetration and avoidance of mass atrocities. Many scholars have argued that leadership is pivotal to the outbreak of such violence but there is almost no scholarship which explores the role that political leaders play in mitigating or aggravating the risk of atrocities over time. Why is it that mass atrocities occur in some places but not in others, despite the existence o…
From Reaction to Resilience in Mass Atrocity Prevention
"From Reaction to Resilience in Mass Atrocity Prevention: An Analysis of the 2013 UN Report The Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention" published on 19 Aug 2016 by Brill | Nijhoff
Understanding Mass Atrocity Prevention during Periods of Democratic Transition
The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of why some countries experience mass atrocities during periods of democratic transition, while others do not. Scholars have long regarded democracy as an important source of stability and protection from mass atrocities such as genocide, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. But democratic transition itself is fraught with the heightened risk of violent conflict and even ma…
Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Interest amongst scholars and policy decision-makers in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities has grown in recent years. Despite this, many have overlooked problems inherent in the commonly accepted notion of prevention. Crystalized in the Carnegie Commission’s 1997 report, ‘Preventing Deadly Conflict’, prevention has typically been understood in two parts, one addressing impending cases of violence (direct prevention) and the othe…
Reconceptualizing Mass Atrocity Prevention
Risk and resilience to mass atrocities in Africa
In the 1980s, two nations in Africa stood out for their development and stability in a continent beset with famine, war and strife. Both Rwanda and Botswana earned the moniker ‘the Switzerland of Africa’ as they successfully pursued economic growth and development. But things went drastically wrong for Rwanda. In 1994, extremist elements led the most intense genocide of the twentieth century, resulting in the deaths of close to one million Tutsi …
Education for Liberation and Development
Risk and resilience to mass atrocities in Africa
In the 1980s, two nations in Africa stood out for their development and stability in a continent beset with famine, war and strife. Both Rwanda and Botswana earned the moniker ‘the Switzerland of Africa’ as they successfully pursued economic growth and development. But things went drastically wrong for Rwanda. In 1994, extremist elements led the most intense genocide of the twentieth century, resulting in the deaths of close to one million Tutsi …
Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Interest amongst scholars and policy decision-makers in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities has grown in recent years. Despite this, many have overlooked problems inherent in the commonly accepted notion of prevention. Crystalized in the Carnegie Commission’s 1997 report, ‘Preventing Deadly Conflict’, prevention has typically been understood in two parts, one addressing impending cases of violence (direct prevention) and the othe…
The Evolution of Mass Atrocity Early Warning in the UN Secretariat
A lack of early warning by the United Nations Secretariat of the Rwandan genocide contributed, in part, to the failure of the international community to respond in a timely manner to this crisis. In the intervening decades, alongside the strengthening of the norm of civilian protection, the UN has enhanced its capacity for early warning through greater personnel numbers, as well as the refining of risk analysis through the development of framewor…
Understanding Mass Atrocity Prevention during Periods of Democratic Transition
The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of why some countries experience mass atrocities during periods of democratic transition, while others do not. Scholars have long regarded democracy as an important source of stability and protection from mass atrocities such as genocide, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. But democratic transition itself is fraught with the heightened risk of violent conflict and even ma…
The role of political leaders in mitigating the risk of mass atrocities
This article examines the impact that three political leaders—Seretse Khama, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere—had on navigating the long-term risk associated with mass atrocities. While the scholarship on comparative genocide studies has acknowledged the crucial dimension of leadership in the perpetration of such violence, very little is known about the preventive influence of leaders in cases where risk is present. This influence works both way…
Human Protection and the Politics of Armed Intervention
Miliary intervention remains a controversial part of human protection. Indispensable in some circumstances, military intervention confronts significant structural challenges which means that it is used only rarely and has the propensity for causing unintended negative consequences. In this essay, we examine the place of humanitarian intervention within the human protection regime. Focusing on the case of Libya, we argue that the UN Security Counc…
Eliminating Rivals, Managing Rivalries
This article seeks to explore the role that leadership plays in both the perpetration and avoidance of mass atrocities. Many scholars have argued that leadership is pivotal to the outbreak of such violence but there is almost no scholarship which explores the role that political leaders play in mitigating or aggravating the risk of atrocities over time. Why is it that mass atrocities occur in some places but not in others, despite the existence o…
Reconceptualizing Mass Atrocity Prevention
Education for Liberation and Development
Risk and resilience to mass atrocities in Africa
In the 1980s, two nations in Africa stood out for their development and stability in a continent beset with famine, war and strife. Both Rwanda and Botswana earned the moniker ‘the Switzerland of Africa’ as they successfully pursued economic growth and development. But things went drastically wrong for Rwanda. In 1994, extremist elements led the most intense genocide of the twentieth century, resulting in the deaths of close to one million Tutsi …
Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Interest amongst scholars and policy decision-makers in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities has grown in recent years. Despite this, many have overlooked problems inherent in the commonly accepted notion of prevention. Crystalized in the Carnegie Commission’s 1997 report, ‘Preventing Deadly Conflict’, prevention has typically been understood in two parts, one addressing impending cases of violence (direct prevention) and the othe…
Reconceptualizing Mass Atrocity Prevention
Understanding Mass Atrocity Prevention during Periods of Democratic Transition
The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of why some countries experience mass atrocities during periods of democratic transition, while others do not. Scholars have long regarded democracy as an important source of stability and protection from mass atrocities such as genocide, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. But democratic transition itself is fraught with the heightened risk of violent conflict and even ma…
Eliminating Rivals, Managing Rivalries
This article seeks to explore the role that leadership plays in both the perpetration and avoidance of mass atrocities. Many scholars have argued that leadership is pivotal to the outbreak of such violence but there is almost no scholarship which explores the role that political leaders play in mitigating or aggravating the risk of atrocities over time. Why is it that mass atrocities occur in some places but not in others, despite the existence o…
From Reaction to Resilience in Mass Atrocity Prevention
"From Reaction to Resilience in Mass Atrocity Prevention: An Analysis of the 2013 UN Report The Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention" published on 19 Aug 2016 by Brill | Nijhoff
Human Protection and the Politics of Armed Intervention
Miliary intervention remains a controversial part of human protection. Indispensable in some circumstances, military intervention confronts significant structural challenges which means that it is used only rarely and has the propensity for causing unintended negative consequences. In this essay, we examine the place of humanitarian intervention within the human protection regime. Focusing on the case of Libya, we argue that the UN Security Counc…
The role of political leaders in mitigating the risk of mass atrocities
This article examines the impact that three political leaders—Seretse Khama, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere—had on navigating the long-term risk associated with mass atrocities. While the scholarship on comparative genocide studies has acknowledged the crucial dimension of leadership in the perpetration of such violence, very little is known about the preventive influence of leaders in cases where risk is present. This influence works both way…
The politics of annihilation
The story of how the ‘crime without a name’ gained a name, then stormed into common parlance has been told many times. Various biographies of the word's creator, Raphael Lemkin, are available to readers. The story of how Lemkin himself was instrumental in transforming his neologism into an international crime is also well documented. But over the last seven decades the word itself has traversed the collective imagination in ways that both illumin…
Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today
Since the end of World War I, the people of the Middle East have lived – from Turkey to Iraq – in a world created by Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau. From the outset, the victorious powers of the War, especially Wilson, paid lip service to the principle of self-determination in addressing various nationalities, but they soon realized this great principle can be a double-edged sword whose use could cost them dearly – in …
The Evolution of Mass Atrocity Early Warning in the UN Secretariat
A lack of early warning by the United Nations Secretariat of the Rwandan genocide contributed, in part, to the failure of the international community to respond in a timely manner to this crisis. In the intervening decades, alongside the strengthening of the norm of civilian protection, the UN has enhanced its capacity for early warning through greater personnel numbers, as well as the refining of risk analysis through the development of framewor…
Authoritarianism, Popular Resistance and Regime Change in Zambia
In 1990, after 17 years of authoritarian rule under inaugural president, Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia looked to be on the precipice of prolonged instability and violence. Authoritarianism showed no signs of softening; the country’s economic decline continued to heap misery on a population where the vast majority were already living in poverty; and the banning of opposition parties in 1973 meant that there was no legitimate political opposition to chall…
Never Again? Mass Atrocity Early Warning Practices in the UN Secretariat
The UN Secretariat considerably increased its institutional and analytical early warning capacities after the Rwandan genocide. Yet, despite this professed commitment and prioritization, a development also supported by the emphasis on prevention in the agreement on the responsibility to protect, the UN Secretariat’s early warning work encounters frequent challenges when it comes to communicating and promoting action. To make sense of this, we exa…
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey
Globally, populism is on the rise. Studies demonstrate how populism is a ‘thin’ ideology that is articulated with ideologies ranging from authoritarianism to its challenges. Here, we examine how two politicians who, at similar times in their careers, represented themselves as inclusive and democratic, yet articulated different incarnations of populism. One of these (Turkish President Erdoğan) has since become an authoritarian populist and the oth…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Genocide (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works)