Publications

Please find below the most recent publication of the research cluster members.

2021

Youngs, R., & Zihnioglu, O. (2021). EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits. JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES. doi:10.1111/jcms.13136

Mwonzora, G., & Hodzi, O. (2021). Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa. JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES. doi:10.1177/0021909620986588

Regilme, Jr, S. S. F., & Hodzi, O. (n.d.). Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers. The International Spectator, 1-18. doi:10.1080/03932729.2020.1855904

Gavin, N. (n.d.). Below the radar: A UK benefit fraud media coverage tsunami – impact, ideology and society. British Journal of Sociology. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12809

Baumann, H. (n.d.). Dumping Humpty Dumpty: Blockages and Opportunities for Lebanon’s Economy after the October 2019 Protests. South Atlantic Quarterly, 456-463. doi:10.1215/00382876-8916204

Whitehead, J., Jackson, J., Balch, A. R., & Francis, B. (n.d.). On the Unreliability of Multiple Systems Estimation for Estimating the Number of Potential Victims of Modern Slavery in the UK. Journal of Human Trafficking. doi:10.1080/23322705.2019.1660952

2020

Bernardi, L., Zihnioglu, O., & Gotlib, I. H. (n.d.). The Syrian Refugee Mental Health Panel Study: The COVID-19 Report: The Syrian Refugee Mental Health Panel Study: The COVID-19 Report.

Cherif, Y., Halawa, H., & Zihnioglu, O. (2020). The Coronavirus and Civic Activism in the Middle East and North Africa: Coronavirus as a Catalyst for Global Civil Society.

Zihnioglu, O. (2020). Continuity and Change in Turkish Civil Society. In E. Canan-Sokullu (Ed.), Turkey in Transition: Politics, Society and Foreign Policy (pp. 121-136). Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften.

Zihnioglu, O. (2020). EU–Turkey Relations: Civil Society and Depoliticization. Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

Tonge, J., Wilks-Heeg, S., & Thompson, L. (2020). Conclusion: The BBC and the Election: Boris, Brexit and Corbyn. PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, 73, 288-299. doi:10.1093/pa/gsaa034

Tonge, J., Wilks-Heeg, S., & Thompson, L. (2020). Introduction: A Conservative Victory Like No Other?. PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, 73, 1-6. doi:10.1093/pa/gsaa020

Wilks-Heeg, S., & Andersen, P. (n.d.). The only (other) poll that matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955-2017.. Political Studies, 0. doi:10.1177/0032321720906324

Vaughn, L., & kiconco, A. (2020). COVID 19 and Racialised Risk Narratives in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa: COVID 19 and Racialised Risk Narratives in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

Vaughn, L. (2020). 'Building Back Better' from COVID-19 Requires Black Lives to Matter. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/

Vaughn, L., & Renton, L. (2020). Power, Dignity and Voice: Enhancing safeguarding in efforts to address modern slavery. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/

Quartey, N. K., & Smith, C. S. (2020). Racialisation of COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact in Ghana: Racialisation of COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact in Ghana.

Ziz, I. Z. (2020). The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racialised Risk Narratives in Kenya: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racialised Risk Narratives in Kenya.

Kiconco, A. (2020). The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racialised Risk Narratives in South Africa: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racialised Risk Narratives in South Africa.

Vaughn, L., & Obasi, A. (2020). Responding toCOVID-19 in the Liverpool City Region Racial Inequalities and COVID-19: Building Back Better For All. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/

Vaughn, L. (2020). COVID 19 and Safeguarding Childrens Rights in Research. Retrieved from https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/

Vaughn, L. (2020). Can Research be Anti-Colonial?. Retrieved from https://covid19raceandrisk.wordpress.com/

Vaughn, L. (2020). Reflections on Race and the COVID19 Outbreak in UK and Globally. Retrieved from https://covid19raceandrisk.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/example-post/

Vaughn, L. (2020). Risky Research? Researching Risk-Work in Young Lives during a Pandemic. Retrieved from https://riskworkresearch.wordpress.com/

Vaughn, L., & Renton, L. (2020). DECOLONISING SAFEGUARDING IN A PANDEMIC: WHO HAS THE POWER TO DEFINE RISK AND HARM. Retrieved from https://discoversociety.org/

Renton, L. (2020). Practical application of UKCDR safeguarding guidance during COVID-19.

Balch, A., Garimella, S., Mansaray, B., Renton, L., Smith, A., & Vaughn, L. (2020). Guidance on Safeguarding in International Development Research: Guidance on Safeguarding in International Development Research. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12173529.v1

Renton, L. (2020). Practical Application of UKCDR Safeguarding Guidance During COVID-19. UKCDR. Retrieved from https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/

in International Development Research: Report on Phase 2 International Consultation: Safeguarding in International Development Research: Report on Phase 2 International Consultation. UKCDR. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12173490

MacNamara, N., Mackle, D., Trew, J. D., Pierson, C., & Bloomer, F. (2020). Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. doi:10.1080/13645579.2020.1857969

MacNamara, N., Mackle, D., Pierson, C., & Bloomer, F. (2020). Interrogating the politicization of female genital cutting (FGC) within conditions of asymmetrical cultural convergence. A case study of Northern Ireland. Women's Studies International Forum, 82. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102391

Hodzi, O. (2020). African agency, derivative power and renegotiation of EU-Africa relations. In T. Haastrup, L. Mah, & N. Duggan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations. Routledge.

Hodzi, O. (n.d.). African Political Elites and the Making(s) of the China Model in Africa. Politics & Policy. doi:10.1111/polp.12380

Amoah, P. A., Hodzi, O., & Castillo, R. (n.d.). Africans in China and Chinese in Africa: inequalities, social identities, and wellbeing. Asian Ethnicity. doi:10.1080/14631369.2020.1784706

Hodzi, O. (n.d.). Bridging the asymmetries? African students’ mobility to China. Asian Ethnicity. doi:10.1080/14631369.2020.1776097

Hodzi, O. (2018). Delegitimization and ‘Re-socialization’: China and the Diffusion of Alternative Norms in Africa. International Studies, 55(4), 297-314. doi:10.1177/0020881718805215

Hodzi, O., & Åberg, J. H. S. (n.d.). Introduction to the Special Issue: Strategic Deployment of the China Model in Africa. Politics & Policy. doi:10.1111/polp.12378

Hodzi, O., Nilsson, E., Komba, N., Sutinen, E., Kautonen, M., & Laakso, L. (2020). Connecting Africa - Perspectives for Energy, Transport, Digitalisation and Research & Innovation: Connecting Africa - Perspectives for Energy, Transport, Digitalisation and Research & Innovation.

Duggan, N., & Hodzi, O. (2020). The challenges of China-European Union security cooperation in Africa. Asia Europe Journal. doi:10.1007/s10308-020-00585-0

Babones, S., Aberg, J. H. S., & Hodzi, O. (2020). China's Role in Global Development Finance: China Challenge or Business as Usual?. GLOBAL POLICY, 11(3), 326-335. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12802

Hodzi, O., & Chen, Y. -W. (2020). Complexities of representation: Chinese outbound tourists as de facto ambassadors in Southern Africa. Journal of China and International Relations.

Hodzi, O. (2020). Civilians versus their governments: China, the United States, and the changing nature of conflict and Security in Africa. [Georgetown Journal of International Affairs]. Retrieved from https://gjia.georgetown.edu/

Epifanio, M. E., & Troeger, V. (2020). Bargaining over Maternity Pay: Evidence from UK Universities. Journal of Public Policy, 40(3), 349-374. doi:10.1017/S0143814X19000059

Dolowitz, D., Hadjiisky, M., & Normand, R. (Eds.) (2020). Shaping Policy Agendas: The Micro-Politics of Economic International Organizations. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781788976992

Dolowitz, D., Hadjiisky, M., & Normand, R. (2020). Introduction. In Shaping Policy Agendas: The Micro-Politics of Economic International Organizations (pp. 1-15). Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781788976992.00007

Dolowitz, D., Hadjiisky, M., & Normand, R. (2020). Conclusion. In Shaping Policy Agendas: The Micro-Politics of Economic International Organizations (pp. 183-193). Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781788976992.00016

Dolowitz, D. (2020). Missing Conceptual Links in the International Environmental Policy Debate: Power, Time and Transfer. Environmental Politics, 29(4), 569-588. doi:10.1080/09644016.2020.1743422

Baumann, H. (Ed.) (2020). Reclaiming Home: The struggle for socially just housing, land and property rights in Syria, Iraq and Libya (Arabic language version). Tunis: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved from http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/tunesien/16596.pdf

Baumann, H. (n.d.). The corruption perception index and the political economy of governing at a distance. International Relations. doi:10.1177/0047117819897312

Balabanova, E., & Balch, A. (2020). Norm destruction, norm resilience The media and refugee protection in the UK and Hungary during Europe's 'Migrant Crisis'. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS, 19(3), 413-435. doi:10.1075/jlp.19055.bal

Balch, A., Garimella, S., Mansaray, B., Renton, L., Smith, A., & Vaughn, L. (2020). Safeguarding in International Development Research: Report on Phase 2 International Consultation: Safeguarding in International Development Research: Report on Phase 2 International Consultation. UKCDR. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12173490

Whitehead, J., Jackson, J., Balch, A., & Francis, B. (n.d.). Whitehead et al. Response to “Misunderstandings of Multiple Systems Estimation.”. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-5. doi:10.1080/23322705.2020.1833573

2019

Zihnioglu, O. (2019). Engaging Civil Society in Turkey and the EU: Can They Break Through the Deadlock? (Global Turkey in Europe Working Papers 20). Retrieved from https://www.iai.it/

Zihnioglu, O. (2019). European Union civil society support and the depoliticisation of Turkish civil society. THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY, 40(3), 503-520. doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1545567

Zihnioglu, Ö. (2019). European Union funds and the assumed professionalization of Turkish civil society organizations. Turkish Studies, 20(5), 657-679. doi:10.1080/14683849.2018.1555754

Zihnioglu, O. (2019). The Legacy of the Gezi Protests in Turkey. In R. Youngs (Ed.), After Protest: Pathways Beyond Mass Mobilization. USA: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Zihniglu, O. (2019). The Prospects of Civic Alliance: New Civic Activists Acting Together with Civil Society Organizations. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30, 289-299. doi:10.1007/s11266-018-0032-9

Morris, C., & Wilks-Heeg, S. (2019). ‘‘Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated’’:The Continuing Role and Relevance of Election Petitionsin Challenging Election Results in the UK. Election Law Journal, 18(1), 31-46. doi:10.1089/elj.2018.0510

Wilks-Heeg, S. (2019). Safe Labour Suburbia? The Changing Politics of the Merseyside Suburbs. POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 90(1), 53-63. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12528

Catney, G. R., Frost, D., & Vaughn, L. (2019). Residents’ perspectives on defining neighbourhood: mental mapping as a tool for participatory neighbourhood research. Qualitative Research, 19(6), 735-752. doi:10.1177/1468794118803841

Vaughn, L., Balch, A. R., Johns, J., & Currie, S. (2019). Transparency in supply chains and the lived experiences of workers and their families in the garment sectors of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Journal of the British Academy, 7(s1), 35-60. doi:10.5871/jba/007s1.035

Vaughn, L. (n.d.). Practioner Perspectives Report May 2015 (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8180876).

Balch, A., Currie, S., Johns, J., Vaughn, L., & Stalford, H. (2019). Clothes, Chocolate and Children: Realising the Transparency Dividend. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12136263.v1

Vaughn, L. (2019, March 15). ‘Doing Risk’: Practitioner Interpretations of Risk of Childhood Radicalisation and the Implementation of the HM Government PREVENT Duty.

Vaughn, L. (n.d.). Small Sample Analysis of Modern Slavery Statements in Cocoa and Garment Sectors: Small Sample Analysis of Modern Slavery Statements in Cocoa and Garment Sectors (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8180915.v1).

Pierson, C. E. (2019). Gendering peace in Northern Ireland: The role of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. Capital and Class, 43(1), 57-71. doi:10.1177/0309816818818087

Duffy, D. N., Pierson, C. E., & Best, P. (2019). A formative evaluation of online information to support abortion access in England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, 45(1), 32-37. doi:10.1136/bmjsrh-2018-200086

Hodzi, O. (Ed.) (2019). Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the Complexities of Identities. Routledge.

Hodzi, O. (2019). 'Empty bravado or hopeful illusions': rising democratic powers and reordering of the international system. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 56(4), 444-456. doi:10.1057/s41311-018-0146-0

Hodzi, O. (Ed.) (2019). Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the complexities of identities (Vol. 20).

Hodzi, O. (2019). Chinese in Africa: ‘Chineseness’ and the complexities of identities. Asian Ethnicity, 20(1), 1-7. doi:10.1080/14631369.2018.1539826

Hodzi, O. (2019). The End of China’s Non-intervention Policy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.springer.com/

Dolowitz, D. P., Plugaru, R., & Saurugger, S. (2019). The process of transfer: The micro-influences of power, time and learning. Public Policy and Administration. doi:10.1177/0952076718822714

Baumann, H. M. (2019). The Causes, Nature and Effect of the Current Crisis of Lebanese Capitalism. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 25(1), 61-77. doi:10.1080/13537113.2019.1565178

Baumann, H. M. (2019). The struggle for socially just housing, land and property rights in Arab countries. In H. Baumann (Ed.), Reclaiming home: The struggle for socially just housing, landand property rights in Syria, Iraq and Libya (pp. 7-17). Tunis: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Baumann, H. M. (Ed.) (2019). Reclaiming Home: The struggle for socially just housing, land and property rights in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Tunis: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved from http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/tunesien/15664.pdf

Harris, E., & Baumann, H. (2019). Identity and war: comparisons and connections between the Balkans and the Middle East. East European Politics, 35(4), 401-414. doi:10.1080/21599165.2019.1676740

Baumann, H. M. (2019). The transformation of Saudi Arabia’s rentier state and ‘the international’. Globalizations, 16(7), 1165-11483. doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1573870

Balch, A., Currie, S., Johns, J., Vaughn, L., & Stalford, H. (2019). Clothes, Chocolate and Children: Realising the Transparency Dividend. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12136263.v1

Balch, A. R., Craig, G., Lewis, H., & Waite, L. (Eds.) (2019). The Modern Slavery Agenda: Policy, Politics and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press.