Vietnam's maritime governance capacity: lacking a gray zone conflict strategy
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Vietnam's maritime governance capacity: lacking a gray zone conflict strategy
Digital political communication through a gender lens: discourses, themes, and inclusive language. A case study of two g...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Electoral campaigns are particularly significant moments for identifying the available political options. Social media campaigns have become universal, and every candidate seeks to showcase their proposals and distinct political personality. The main goal of this article is to examine electoral political communication on social media platforms thro...
Shift in intelligence issue ownership: conceptualizing CITINT—intelligence conducted by citizens
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
This article elaborates on the conceptualization of CITINT, i.e., the intelligence activities conducted by citizens and NGOs. This article is a preliminary attempt to establish foundation and perspectives for future research and to provide for initial conceptualization of CITINT. Moreover, this article elucidates CITINT’s implications from legislat...
The Philippines’ acquiescent ascension
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
One of the puzzles to the Philippines’ middle power status is how it responds to great power rivalries in the Indo-Pacific. As a claimant state to the South China Sea, its responses in the maritime domain could reveal unique foreign policy patterns on how middle powers respond to overlapping maritime borders. However, the middle power literature ca...
Depleted uranium munitions and the Ukraine war: a warning against DU renaissance
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Contrary to the contested use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons following the Iraq war in 2003, which led some nations to seek a ban on DU use and even eliminate their existing arsenals, there is now a growing tendency both toward the use and production of DU weapons, rendering such weapons as “normal” and “acceptable.” There is a risk of a DU renai...
Configurations of democracy—empirical and methodological insights from a comparison of Singapore, Ghana, and Ireland
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
This article presents and proofs an alternative concept of democracy that seeks to overcome the limitations of rigid universalist, liberal-proceduralist conceptions by emphasizing the fundamental principles of democracy rather than combining them with culturally individualistic features. The approach presented here focuses on the fundamental princi...
Liberal visions of multiculturalism and majoritarianism
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Liberalism advances democratic rights and representation through three principles. First, it seeks to protect individuals from abusive state power. Second, it shares an affinity with the epistemology of the Enlightenment, where an objective world can be discovered and observed. Third, it limits “tyranny of the majority” through civil liberties that...
Theocratically bounded communal self-governance: a pre-modern solution for the modern world?
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Shadi Hamid proposes “democratic minimalism” as a system and means of governing and rotating power with no prejudice to substantive ideological outcomes. Democratic minimalism is meant to decouple the question of actualizing an ideal society, even a liberal one that provides maximum freedom for the maximum groups of people, from the mechanism of tr...
The politics of the pandemic
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
A theory on political violence in hybrid regimes: insights from Colombia
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Introduction This article presents a model of political competition in which political parties, through clientelism strategies, vie for control of legislative seats. Parties exercise political violence to prevent potential rivals from gaining power and threatening their position within the hybrid political regime. The theory suggests that the degre...
