Publishing, since 1975, critical scholarship in political science & international relations Editor Idil Oztig @lacinidiltr · Impact Factor 2.1
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Impact Factors were just released, and Alternatives achieved a higher impact factor this year: 2.1!
Alternatives is ranked 44/169 in the “International Relations” category.
I would like to thank the authors, the editorial board members, Special Issue editors, the associate editor @AdisonmezUC and the SAGE team who made this success possible!
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⚖️ Can agonistic peace begin without mutual recognition? Yifat Gutman examines Palestine/Israel to show how asymmetrical recognition, refusal, and coalition-building can keep truth and justice at the center of peace activism. 👇
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🏳️🌈 Nagle brings agonistic democracy and queer peacebuilding into dialogue, showing how LGBTQ+ mobilisation in post-Agreement Northern Ireland reopens democratic space through pluralisation, destabilisation, and interlinking. 👇
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📚 Daniel Clausen explores how speculative fiction can expand the horizons of IR, drawing on the novels "Station Eleven" and "Children of Time" to rethink survival, possibility, and relations beyond the human.
Read more 👇
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🔎 Jakala, Aroussi & Badurdeen rethink violent extremism beyond securitised approaches, drawing on everyday experiences of violence in Kenyan communities and showing how these experiences are deeply gendered. Read more 👇
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Pleased to share that I have joined the editorial team of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (@Alternatives_J) as an Associate Editor.
My thanks to Professor Lacin Idil Oztig (@lacinidiltr) for the invitation. I am very glad to have the opportunity to collaborate with such an experienced and genuinely international group of scholars and to contribute to the journal’s editorial work and intellectual community.
@Alternatives_J is a journal published by @SageJournals, and engages with major debates in International Relations, global politics, foreign policy, security, globalization, conflict and political theory.
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📢 Don’t miss our latest Special Issue!
🛡️ If you’re interested in Gulf security, military adaptation, and shifting U.S.-GCC relations, “GCC States in Transition,” edited by @AliBakeer, brings together timely research on a region in transformation.
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🗺️ How do migration and borderland dynamics shape each other?
Opioła, Czabanowska & Czepil map the migration-borderland nexus, revealing uneven geographic attention, the prominence of forced migration, and the role of the state.👇
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🎉 Prof. Antonio Carlos Lessa @antoniolessa from the University of Brasília has now become the Associate Editor of Alternatives. We congratulate him and look forward to working with him!
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Don’t miss Alternatives’ new Special Issue on GCC States in Transition: Defense, Security, and Military Adaptation in an Era of U.S. Decline.
Browse articles now: ow.ly/yB9q50ZoZ6T
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Q and A with Lacin Idil Oztig
As Ankara hosts its second NATO summit, the professor of political sciences at the Yildiz Technical University discusses Turkey's balancing between its Western allies and Moscow: polskieradio.pl/395/7991/art…
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✈️ What happens when political labels travel?
🇰🇷 🇵🇸 Soojeong Yi traces how Islamo-leftism is rearticulated through South Korean Palestinian solidarity movements👇
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🚀 What happens when middle powers get stronger?
📊 Hakan Mehmetcik’s Middle Power Paradox: "good international citizenship" may be a strategy, not a value–and the multilateralism crisis may come from the North, not just the South👇
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🎮 Video games as political texts?
🤯 Araújo reviews Castro & Kiersey's "The World Politics of Disco Elysium", a provocative volume on how a video game can make us rethink key concepts of IR.👇
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We are pleased to announce that @AliBakeer (Qatar University) has become the Middle East editor of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. We congratulate him and look forward to our continued collaboration!
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We are pleased to announce that @cerenmelisk has become the social media editor of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political! We congratulate her and wish her every success in her new role! journals.sagepub.com/editori…
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⚡ Big investment≠lasting leadership.
🔋 Shokri @ushukrik unpacks why policy ambition alone won't secure the green energy frontier, and what infrastructure, supply-chain, and regulatory constraints mean for U.S. competitiveness👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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🏔️ One land, two worldviews: indigenous cosmology vs. the Regalian Doctrine.
🌿 Tanabe et al. reimagine peace in Cordillera & Mindanao through indigenous lifeworlds and land-based justice in the Philippines👇
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Do editors hear the voices of African scholars?
In this latest SAGE Perspectives blog, the editor of Alternatives, Lacin Idil Oztig, reflects on how proactive editorial policies can help make academic publishing more inclusive 👇
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Bölümümüz öğretim üyesi @GoncaOguzGok ile Ayda Sezgin'in "Evolution Without Progress? Tracing the Contested Expansion of Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (WPS) in International Organizations With Evidence From the UN, EU, and NATO" başlıklı makalesi yayımlanmıştır.
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