Monika De Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika De Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | De Silva |
| SIGNATURE | DE SILVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0851-139X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language-bargaining in the Council of the European Union: Meaning Negotiations and the Concept of Gender Equality
Let’s not argue: Diplomatic Legal Talk and the Issues of Abortion and Same-Sex Partnerships
How does legal talk matter and how it is used in diplomatic practice? International law’s inherent openness to interpretation is an opportunity for states to shape it to their advantage through argumentation, a well-studied type of legal rhetoric. In this article, I investigate another avenue: legal openness can also be used in a way that actively maintains and reproduces it through ambiguous discourse, in a way that is consequential for the emer…
Populist Challenge? Negotiating the EU’s Accession to the Istanbul Convention in the Council
According to recent scholarship, populist governments engage in “unpolitics,” a repudiation of politics as the process of resolving conflict, including on the level of the EU. We propose that the conditions provided by the Council preparatory bodies, namely constructive negotiation culture, focus on technical details and containment of a negotiation outside of mediatised venues, might hamper the emergence of unpolitics. We test this argument by t…
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality
s To what extent is diplomacy a depolarizing tool of international society? This article proposes a novel theoretical and empirical focus on depolarization in international politics of gender and sexuality. It operationalizes the concepts of polarization and depolarization and integrates them with Self/Other theory in international relations. It puts forward an argument that the logic of diplomacy is, although not unequivocally, compatible with t…
Populist Challenge? Negotiating the EU’s Accession to the Istanbul Convention in the Council
According to recent scholarship, populist governments engage in “unpolitics,” a repudiation of politics as the process of resolving conflict, including on the level of the EU. We propose that the conditions provided by the Council preparatory bodies, namely constructive negotiation culture, focus on technical details and containment of a negotiation outside of mediatised venues, might hamper the emergence of unpolitics. We test this argument by t…
Language-bargaining in the Council of the European Union: Meaning Negotiations and the Concept of Gender Equality
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality
s To what extent is diplomacy a depolarizing tool of international society? This article proposes a novel theoretical and empirical focus on depolarization in international politics of gender and sexuality. It operationalizes the concepts of polarization and depolarization and integrates them with Self/Other theory in international relations. It puts forward an argument that the logic of diplomacy is, although not unequivocally, compatible with t…
Populist Challenge? Negotiating the EU’s Accession to the Istanbul Convention in the Council
According to recent scholarship, populist governments engage in “unpolitics,” a repudiation of politics as the process of resolving conflict, including on the level of the EU. We propose that the conditions provided by the Council preparatory bodies, namely constructive negotiation culture, focus on technical details and containment of a negotiation outside of mediatised venues, might hamper the emergence of unpolitics. We test this argument by t…
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality
s To what extent is diplomacy a depolarizing tool of international society? This article proposes a novel theoretical and empirical focus on depolarization in international politics of gender and sexuality. It operationalizes the concepts of polarization and depolarization and integrates them with Self/Other theory in international relations. It puts forward an argument that the logic of diplomacy is, although not unequivocally, compatible with t…
Let’s not argue: Diplomatic Legal Talk and the Issues of Abortion and Same-Sex Partnerships
How does legal talk matter and how it is used in diplomatic practice? International law’s inherent openness to interpretation is an opportunity for states to shape it to their advantage through argumentation, a well-studied type of legal rhetoric. In this article, I investigate another avenue: legal openness can also be used in a way that actively maintains and reproduces it through ambiguous discourse, in a way that is consequential for the emer…
Language-bargaining in the Council of the European Union: Meaning Negotiations and the Concept of Gender Equality
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · European union (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)