This article surveys recent literature on Africa and International Relations (IR) and reviews
the current place of Africa within the discipline. It notes that critical debates continue around …

This article uses an analysis of the securitization of HIV/AIDS as a basis for proposing three
contributions to securitization theory. Beginning with an examination of some of the key …

The study of Africa's international relations has for a long time been dominated by a concern
to explain how the continent has been governed, shaped and mar ginalised by external …

It is often said that “diseases know no borders,” but COVID-19 has once again shown that
policy responses certainly do. Governments have implemented bordering practices in a …

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue
of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of …

The idea of a dedicated book on non-traditional security was born a few years ago when I
began teaching a course on the then emerging concept. Although my colleagues and I at the …

According to the latest World Bank estimates, over the past decade some US $4.3 billion has
been pledged by governments to combat the threat of pandemic influenza. Presidents, prime …

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of
the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent …

This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics
of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on …

Critical security scholars and securitization scholars in particular increasingly argue for a
more context-sensitive approach to studying how security is constructed and performed in …