Journals
2026 EN
Killmeier Matthew A.
This article assesses Peter Quill , a radio thriller drama that aired on WGN (1938–1940) and evinces the early multimedia interaction of newspaper-owned radio stations through a tie-up with the Chicago Tribune , its owner. The paper condensed each week’s program with a visual summary, while the program dramatically echoed and amplified the paper’s anticommunist stance and rightist ideology through another mode and medium. Peter Quill aided U.S. authorities in stymieing the Red Circle, a fifth-column communist group that typically overwhelmed the capabilities of law enforcement and the military. Quill also provides a scientific genius superhero that anticipates the Cold War.
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2026 EN
Bird Dylan · Knight Dominic
The 2024 elections in the United States and the United Kingdom were characterized as the first “podcast elections,” with political figures leveraging the medium to connect directly with the public. This study examines how political insiders in both countries used podcast-specific affordances to engage listeners and advance political agendas. Through close analytical listening and critical discourse analysis of four prominent politics podcasts—Bannon’s War Room, Pod Save America, The Rest is Politics, and Electoral Dysfunction—we analyze host engagement strategies and political framing. Our findings reveal a “strategic ritual of authenticity” whereby hosts present themselves as accessible and genuine through intimate, emotional discourse while also displaying professional, insider expertise. U.S. podcasts demonstrated overt partisanship, while U.K. podcasts adopted more establishment-supportive, cross-party approaches. The analysis reveals podcasting’s effectiveness for contrasting objectives: fostering democratic participation through intimate and inclusive dialogue, and deepening polarization through partisan mobilization, with potential to undermine democracy.
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2026 EN
Gregg Neale
Ireland has a long history of political violence emanating from Irish republicans’ desire to be free from British rule. The focus of this article is on the use of such political violence in one particular area, namely County Tyrone using a comparative analysis to interrogate republican violence during the Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921) and the period known as the Troubles (1969–1997). Drawing upon archival sources, interviews with ex-security force members and republicans with direct experience of the conflict in County Tyrone and the extant literature, the article examines whether successive generations of republicans drew upon or deviated from established templates of political violence. In doing so, it considers the practical and lethal effect of the exchange of memories, grievance, justifications, tactics and patterns of past episodes of violence. By comparing and analysing differences in the political violence employed by successive generations of republicans, similar strategies and tactics are identified. These include the use of guerrilla warfare, attacks on security forces, the local economy and infrastructure, the creation of security force-free zones and the fostering of sectarian and representative violence. The research has contemporary relevance to improve our understanding, challenge misinterpretations and myths of past events and legacies in County Tyrone.
Journals
2026 EN
Hermez Sami
This article begins by identifying the Levant region in terms of a single warscape to argue that we should move beyond methodological nationalism when approaching and studying the region. It argues that if methodological nationalism remains unchallenged, the normalization of Israel by scholars becomes inevitable. Thus, after offering a critique of methodological nationalism, the article elaborates on the politics of normalization with Israel, which is one major aspect of war, and discusses how to combat normalization in denationalized terms. Seeing the Levant beyond methodological nationalism is not meant as a purely academic exercise. It has political implications for the struggle against normalization, and, importantly, opens a way to imagine futures with different and non-national empirical realities, where the present-day Lebanese, Israeli, Jordanian, and Syrian states (at least) are dismantled, and so are the politics of identity inherent to them.
Journals
2026 EN
Khader Jamil
This article offers an ideological critique of Slavoj Žižek’s recent interventions on the Gaza genocide, beginning with his October 2023 Project Syndicate article. It argues that by appropriating the post-Oslo liberal-Zionist position he once criticized, Žižek forecloses the real antagonism – necro-imperialist Zionist settler colonialism – and recodes it as a tragedy of mutual victimhood within the universal logic of global capitalism. At the same time, he re-integrates this antagonism into his symbolic universe through mythic, geographical, and ethical disavowal strategies. Consequently, Žižek reframes the Gaza genocide and Israeli war crimes as an ethical impasse grounded in David Ben-Gurion’s notion of an unbridgeable ‘abyss’ between Zionist and Palestinian claims to Palestine. This culminates in a ‘pragmatist realist’ politics of hope that imagines solidarity between 1948 Palestinians and Israeli Jews through their ‘weird similarities’, without confronting how Zionist colonialism structurally precludes working-class solidarity. The article concludes by asking whether Žižek’s Hegelian notion of the universal singular can still generate new conditions of intelligibility for Palestinian liberation in the necro-imperial world.
Journals
2026 EN
Schake Kori
For 250 years, the United States of America has been propelled by a sense of its exceptional nature and mission. For the past 80 years, much of the world has been structured around the order Washington built out of the ashes of the Second World War. But for many Americans and observers of America, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been deeply disquieting, with widespread concerns that his presidency will undermine much of what has made America exceptional and successful at home and abroad. In this Adelphi book, Kori Schake argues that the US truly is exceptional – politically, economically, culturally and in the international order it constructed. She also argues that, while deep-seated American advantages and resilience may still contribute to more benevolent outcomes, we face a serious risk of dramatic disruption to American power and international security.
Journals
2026 EN
Schake Kori
For 250 years, the United States of America has been propelled by a sense of its exceptional nature and mission. For the past 80 years, much of the world has been structured around the order Washington built out of the ashes of the Second World War. But for many Americans and observers of America, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been deeply disquieting, with widespread concerns that his presidency will undermine much of what has made America exceptional and successful at home and abroad. In this Adelphi book, Kori Schake argues that the US truly is exceptional – politically, economically, culturally and in the international order it constructed. She also argues that, while deep-seated American advantages and resilience may still contribute to more benevolent outcomes, we face a serious risk of dramatic disruption to American power and international security.
Journals
2026 EN
Schake Kori
For 250 years, the United States of America has been propelled by a sense of its exceptional nature and mission. For the past 80 years, much of the world has been structured around the order Washington built out of the ashes of the Second World War. But for many Americans and observers of America, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been deeply disquieting, with widespread concerns that his presidency will undermine much of what has made America exceptional and successful at home and abroad. In this Adelphi book, Kori Schake argues that the US truly is exceptional – politically, economically, culturally and in the international order it constructed. She also argues that, while deep-seated American advantages and resilience may still contribute to more benevolent outcomes, we face a serious risk of dramatic disruption to American power and international security.
Journals
2026 EN
Schake Kori
For 250 years, the United States of America has been propelled by a sense of its exceptional nature and mission. For the past 80 years, much of the world has been structured around the order Washington built out of the ashes of the Second World War. But for many Americans and observers of America, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been deeply disquieting, with widespread concerns that his presidency will undermine much of what has made America exceptional and successful at home and abroad. In this Adelphi book, Kori Schake argues that the US truly is exceptional – politically, economically, culturally and in the international order it constructed. She also argues that, while deep-seated American advantages and resilience may still contribute to more benevolent outcomes, we face a serious risk of dramatic disruption to American power and international security.
Journals
2026 EN
Schake Kori
For 250 years, the United States of America has been propelled by a sense of its exceptional nature and mission. For the past 80 years, much of the world has been structured around the order Washington built out of the ashes of the Second World War. But for many Americans and observers of America, the second administration of President Donald Trump has been deeply disquieting, with widespread concerns that his presidency will undermine much of what has made America exceptional and successful at home and abroad. In this Adelphi book, Kori Schake argues that the US truly is exceptional – politically, economically, culturally and in the international order it constructed. She also argues that, while deep-seated American advantages and resilience may still contribute to more benevolent outcomes, we face a serious risk of dramatic disruption to American power and international security.