Leoni Connah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leoni Connah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leoni |
| FAMILY NAME | Connah |
| SIGNATURE | CONNAH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7785-9898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Violence and New Religious Movements
This article revisits the controversies sparked by two new religious movements (NRMs) in the run up to the millennium–?the tragedies that unfolded in Jonestown and Tokyo–?which have forever altered discussions on new religions and violence. This paper explores the impact of pressures both external and internal on The Peoples Temple and Aum Shinrikyo and suggests two new points of focus: perceived pressure and cognitive dissonance. As time progres…
International Law vs. Domestic Law in Kashmir
Double Lockdown in Kashmir during the Covid-19 Pandemic
US intervention in Afghanistan
This article argues that the USA and its Western allies have misused ‘Just War’ narratives to legitimise an external intervention in Afghanistan and their use of force during the War on Terror. It explores the extent to which such external interventions, military strategies, narratives and justifications by the USA may have contributed to state failure in Afghanistan. As the legitimacy of earlier external interventions is called into question, wh…
Kunal Mukherjee. 2019. Conflict in India and China’s Contested Borderlands
The Indian Northeast
The introduction of The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked a collective resistance that has not been witnessed since the fight for Indian Independence. Although Modi is living up to the promises he made in his manifesto(s), and some BJP supporters believe the act ‘fulfils the aspiration of Mahatma Gandhi’, this article considers how his government…
US intervention in Afghanistan
This article argues that the USA and its Western allies have misused ‘Just War’ narratives to legitimise an external intervention in Afghanistan and their use of force during the War on Terror. It explores the extent to which such external interventions, military strategies, narratives and justifications by the USA may have contributed to state failure in Afghanistan. As the legitimacy of earlier external interventions is called into question, wh…
The Indian Northeast
The introduction of The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked a collective resistance that has not been witnessed since the fight for Indian Independence. Although Modi is living up to the promises he made in his manifesto(s), and some BJP supporters believe the act ‘fulfils the aspiration of Mahatma Gandhi’, this article considers how his government…
Double Lockdown in Kashmir during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Kunal Mukherjee. 2019. Conflict in India and China’s Contested Borderlands
The Indian Northeast
The introduction of The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked a collective resistance that has not been witnessed since the fight for Indian Independence. Although Modi is living up to the promises he made in his manifesto(s), and some BJP supporters believe the act ‘fulfils the aspiration of Mahatma Gandhi’, this article considers how his government…
Violence and New Religious Movements
This article revisits the controversies sparked by two new religious movements (NRMs) in the run up to the millennium–?the tragedies that unfolded in Jonestown and Tokyo–?which have forever altered discussions on new religions and violence. This paper explores the impact of pressures both external and internal on The Peoples Temple and Aum Shinrikyo and suggests two new points of focus: perceived pressure and cognitive dissonance. As time progres…
International Law vs. Domestic Law in Kashmir
Double Lockdown in Kashmir during the Covid-19 Pandemic
US intervention in Afghanistan
This article argues that the USA and its Western allies have misused ‘Just War’ narratives to legitimise an external intervention in Afghanistan and their use of force during the War on Terror. It explores the extent to which such external interventions, military strategies, narratives and justifications by the USA may have contributed to state failure in Afghanistan. As the legitimacy of earlier external interventions is called into question, wh…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · International law (2 works)