Mireille Rebeiz recounts Hezbollah’s violence in Lebanon and in the region which prompted her work on the legal status of Hezbollah as a State or a non-State actor.
How are we to assess the impact of activities (e.g. words, songs or gestures) associated with sectarianism in contemporary Scotland?…
In the August 2015 issue of Scottish Affairs, a team of researchers explore the findings of a study they carried…
Western Europe experienced the immigration of people from a Muslim background after World War II who settled in countries like…
Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) is the contemporary philosopher to whom Badiou returns more than any other. His engagement with Deleuze is however neither homogeneous nor unequivocally critical, as it is often thought to be. In short, Deleuze figures in Badiou’s work as his preeminent philosophical disputant.
Three years ago, Richard Macdonald and I compared Dai Vaughan (1933-2012) with two other ‘outstanding figures of his generation’, Robin…
Jean Baudrillard on Muslims in France, the simulation of freedom in America, the demise of the intellectual and why French theory is like the Statue of Liberty.
There is a shortage of men in neo-Victorianism. Or that, at least, is how it would appear to look at…
By Ashley Woodward Peter Shaffer’s play Equus is perhaps best known to some today as ‘the one in which Harry…
By William Knox Violence is an area much neglected by Scottish historians unlike those working in other countries, such as…