Departmental Working Papers

All Working Papers are available to be downloaded from the list below. Paper copies are also available. Send requests to Columba Peoples.

List of Working Papers

Working paper No 07-09
Speaking Food: A Discourse Analytic Study of Food Security
by Rupert Alcock (University of Bristol; MSc dissertation prize joint winner 2009)
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Working paper No 06-09
The Strange Power of Maps: How maps work politically and influence our understanding of the world
by Piers Fotiadis (University of Bristol; MSc dissertation prize joint winner 2009)
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Working paper No 05-09
Reconstructing Identity to Fit International Society: English School Theory, Constructivism, and the Case of Taiwan
by John A. Pella and Yana Zuo (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 04-09
Obama's Discourse of 'Hope': Making Rhetoric Work Politically
by Marcus Letts (University of Bristol, BSc dissertation prize winner 2009)
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Working paper No 03-09
Putting 'Mercenary Masculinities' on the Research Agenda
by Paul Higate (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 02-09
War by Other Means: The Problem of Population and the Civilianisation of Coalition Interventions
by Colleen Bell (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 01-09
The Fallacy of 'Going Public': Old Fears, New Strategies, Premature Assessments
by Diana Ichpekova (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 12-08
Privatisation as State Advance: Private Indirect Government in Vietnam
by Martin Gainsborough (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 11-08
Human Security Research: Progress, Limitations and New Directions
by Ryerson Christie and Amitav Acharya (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 10-08
Non-Hegemonic International Relations: A Preliminary Conceptualization
by Amitav Acharya (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 09-08
Learning to Live with U.S. Foreign Policy and its Discontents: The Politics of Public Memory at Kent State, 1970-2001
by Jutta Weldes (University of Bristol) and Mark Laffey (SOAS, University of London)
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Working paper No 08-08
The British Response to the Spanish Civil War: The Impact of Systemic Pressures on Societal Practices
by Richard Little (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 07-08
The Expansion of the International Society in Heeren’s Account of the European states-system
by Richard Little (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 06-08
The Commodification of Security in the Risk Society
by Elke Krahmann (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 05-08
The Social Construction of Identity: Israeli Foreign Policy and the 2006 War in Lebanon
by Joanna Tidy (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No 04-08
Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Mark Laffey (SOAS, University of London ) and Jutta Weldes (Bristol University)
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Working paper No 03-08
Critical Terrorism Studies: An Activist Scholar Perspective
by Eric Herring (University of Bristol)
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Working paper No.02-08
Peacekeepers as New Men? Security and Masculinity in the United Nations Mission in Liberia
by Gurchathen Sanghera (University of St Andrews), Marsha Henry and Paul Higate (University of Bristol)
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Working Paper No. 01-08
'On the Edge of ‘No Man’s Land’: Chronic Emergency in Myanmar'
by Mark Duffield (University of Bristol)
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Working Paper No. 04-07
'The European Economic and Social Committee After Enlargement'
by Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (University of Bristol) and Stijn Smismans (Cardiff University)
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Working Paper No. 03-07
‘Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing “Some Like it Hot” as a Heterosexual Dystopia’
by Terrell Carver (University of Bristol).
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Working Paper No. 02-07
‘Neoliberalism Versus Peacebuilding in Iraq’
by Eric Herring (University of Bristol)
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Working Paper No. 01-07
‘Materializing the Metaphors of Global Cities: Singapore and Silicon Valley’
by Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
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