Publishing
We refuse to let our work go to waste. Our publishing collections comprise research and writing that would otherwise sit on our desks or in the cloud, gathering dust.
Interesting | Informative | Important
Each research project showcases issues we find interesting, informative, and important in our lives as global citizens. With every section, we include a reference list or recommended reading for those wanting to dive deeper into the content we showcase.
Current Articles & Projects
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This series will give an in-depth look at Turkey's recent foreign policy decisions. International media sources agree that President Erdogan's administration has taken an increasingly hard line on foreign affairs. However, there are overtly expansionist policies that have not hit the headlines.
The series is broken into four parts; an introduction to the issues and foreign policy theories, the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the Libya conflict, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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This series gives an in-depth look at women's security in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI). Gender politics and violence have long been hot topics in international discourse. The emphasis the UN and western democracies place on gender equality has led to extensive research on women's lived experiences. The Middle East, in particular, has found itself under the microscope.
The series is broken into five parts; an introduction to the area and issues, democratization and gender security, independence movements and gender representation, the ISIS occupation and gender oppression, and conclusions on gendered life in the KRI.
Trigger Warning: This series discusses domestic violence, sexual violence, murder, and modern slavery.
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This series gives a week-by-week breakdown of Turkey’s international policies at from September 2020 to January 2021.
Each article examines event developments and their place in wider movements in Turkish foreign policy.
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This series discusses pronoun policies at the University of St Andrews. Pronoun policies have become a hot topic in discussions about gender identity and expression at academic institutions. This series uses the Actor Network Theory (ANT) to discuss the importance of pronouns in shaping university students' socio-material experience.
Trigger Warning: This series contains a discussion of gender identity, expression, discrimination and abuse.
The series is broken into five parts; an introduction to gender pronouns and their importance, setting an academic framework, analysis in academic and non-academic environments, and critical evaluation and conclusion.
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This series gives a week-by-week breakdown of Iran’s international policies at from September to December 2020.
Each article unpacks the events of the week and their place in Iranian foreign policy trends at the time.