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Fellowship Programmes & Positions available at Strife

September 30, 2021 by Bryan Strawser

This academic year, Strife is offering two fellowship programmes.

New this year, our Strife Writing Fellows, known previously as Staff Writers, will produce regular content for Strife Blog, working closely with the Blog Editors while developing their writing and research skills.

Our Women in Writing Fellowship Programme offers a supportive environment for women to promote their work and develop their voice. Women in Writing Fellows will work closely with a mentor throughout their Fellowship while attending regular educational workshops with faculty, staff, and the Strife team.

To apply review the Fellowship descriptions below and submit an application using the links below.

Questions can be directed to [email protected].

Strife Writing Fellows

Strife Writing Fellows, known previously as Staff Writers, will produce regular content for Strife blog while developing their writing and research skills.

They will liaise with the Fellowship Coordination Team to pitch, plan, research, and write articles, producing one monthly.

Over the year they will benefit from experienced editing, concentrated on supporting their growth as researchers, as well as a series of workshops from practitioners who work in conflict. Publications by Fellows will include interviews, current events analysis, historical reflections, book reviews and arts analyses, however, Fellows are encouraged to propose, innovate, and utilize novel mediums or structures.

While Fellows are not required to focus on topical events, it is a position which accommodates those interested in sharing their perspectives on contemporary issues.

APPLY FOR THIS FELLOWSHIP

Women in Writing Fellowship

Too often, the voices of women on issues of conflict and security are marginalised or go unheard, despite the critical role they play in conflict, development, peace-building and international security. The Women in Writing Fellowship offers a spring-board into academic writing and publishing for Women completing their MA here within the War Studies Department.

The team at Strife is extremely proud to present the second year of our Women in Writing Programme. This fellowship program is all about providing a supportive environment for women to promote their work and develop their voice. The fellowship offers a year-long mentorship programme where individuals selected for the programme will be assigned an academic mentor to support them through the writing and editing process —from the generation of ideas, to editing, to publication. A companion on their year-long journey, the mentors will be their open door to the world of writing, so that the women will be able to confidently walk through and shine on their own.

The mentees in the Women in Writing Programme will write two pieces for Strife Blog, as well as be part of exclusive events and roundtable discussions, as well as have the opportunities to learn from experts in the field. Our events and workshops feature access to and discussions with experts people who have had careers in international relations, politics, education, cyber security and so much more. At Strife we pride ourselves in creating a platform that provides women with unique and exceptional opportunities for networking, community building, and growing their confidence as writers.

This competitive scheme is aimed at women looking to develop their writing and editorial skills. They may have previous experience or be completely new to publishing but should have a strong interest in the analysis of conflict and all its themes.

APPLY FOR THIS FELLOWSHIP

Strife Journal/IMES Joint Edition: Introduction - Re-Examining Religion and Politics in Contemporary North Africa

July 12, 2021 by Onur Kara

Onur Kara’s Introduction to our Strife/IMES Joint Edition of Strife Journal entitled ‘Navigating North Africa: Dominating Narratives and New Perspectives’ is below. Read the full issue of Strife Journal at this link.

The decade following the Arab Uprisings of 2011 witnessed rigorous debates concerning the nature of the state, its relationship with its citizens, and what the role of religion would be in this context. In cases of regime breakdown, the conversation was centred around the new political order: would that be a ‘civil state,’ or a religious one?[1] What about the role of Islamist parties, who had achieved a series of electoral victories in early post-uprising periods? On the other hand, regimes who successfully weathered the protest movement faced the problem of adapting themselves to the new period: increased civil activism and economic troubles signalled that significant reconfiguration of regimes was necessary. Importantly, many of these debates occurred within national legislatures and civil society, creating a vibrant discussion during the first years of the 2010s.

This conversation remains disputed today. Increased instability in the region and political violence has shifted the debate to security issues from which the Maghreb was not exempt. Similarly, a series of failed political transitions in 2013 caused an ‘overcorrection’ towards the analysis of authoritarian resilience and continuity at the expense of more nuanced analysis.[2] Combatting terrorism and controlling extremist ideologies became a cornerstone of government policies, eclipsing democratisation and political reforms. Furthermore, tensions between Morocco and Algeria over Western Sahara resurfaced, showing that Maghrebi geopolitics is alive and well.

These were amongst the issues discussed during the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies’ annual conference in October 2020, titled ‘Navigating North Africa in 2020: Dominating Narratives and New Perspectives.’ This special issue brings together five original articles from the panellists, with a special emphasis on religion.

Being the sole democracy in its region, Tunisian parliamentary politics attracted ample attention after 2011. Its political transition survived periods of extensive political polarisation coupled with political violence and holds potential insights for cases of democratisation worldwide.[3] Alexis Blouët’s article utilizes legal theory to examine changing the relationship between state power and Islamists, underlining the importance of norms in analysing legislative activity. This explanation yields a robust analysis of several flashpoints which marked contemporary politics including capital punishment, and gender equality in inheritance.

A discussion of norms in North Africa inevitably brings forth the question of human rights. Noufal Abboud’s contribution furthers this debate by presenting a comparative reading of three legal scholars, dissecting the (often misconceived) relationship between International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law. The paper argues for the harmonisation of seemingly incompatible approaches by focusing on common, higher values which both schools of thought share.

The rest of the special issue focuses on Morocco whose political life came under increased scrutiny in the previous decade. Ilyass Bouzghaia shows how the Moroccan state promoted its own interpretation of Islam to buttress national unity and political stability, making a valuable contribution to the literature on government control of religious institutions. Building on the concept of ‘spiritual security,’ the paper provides insight into Moroccan institution-building processes that have been a core endeavour of Mohamed VI’s reign. It also shows how a unique feminist discourse has emerged in the country, which allowed the monarchy to navigate a middle ground between tradition and modernity.

Switching our attention to foreign affairs, Amal al Founti’s paper examines Morocco’s religious diplomacy, demonstrating how it serves the dual purpose of furthering Moroccan geopolitical aims while combatting internal threats. The question of religion is transnational in al Founti’s analysis: it straddles the divide between the domestic and the international, underlining an aspect of regional politics that is oft-cited in the Levant but not highlighted enough in the Maghreb. The paper also has important policy implications regarding the North African diasporas in Europe, and the Western Sahara conflict.

Last, but not least, Sara Katona’s article points at the growing phenomenon of non-belief in North Africa. Highly sensitive and remarkably difficult to research, this topic came to the spotlight following Arab Barometer’s 2019 survey.[4] Katona’s work presents valuable data from laborious within-country fieldwork, touching on issues of religiosity, nationalism, and how they interplay with Moroccan politics in a contemporary context.

[1] Limor Lavie, “The Idea Of The Civil State In Egypt: Its Evolution And Political Impact Following The 2011 Revolution”, The Middle East Journal 71, no. 1 (2017).

[2] Marc Lynch, “Taking Stock of MENA Political Science After The Uprisings”, Mediterranean Politics, 2021.

[3] See for example; Elizabeth Nugent, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

[4] “The Arab World in Seven Charts: Are Arabs Turning Their Backs on Religion?”, Arab Barometer, 2019, https://www.arabbarometer.org/2019/06/the-arab-world-in-seven-charts-are-arabs-turning-their-backs-on-religion/https://www.arabbarometer.org/2019/06/the-arab-world-in-seven-charts-are-arabs-turning-their-backs-on-religion/ (Accessed 01.02.2021).

Call for Papers - KSLR-Strife Joint Edition

June 11, 2020 by Strife Staff

The King’s Student Law Review and Strife are pleased to announce the publication of the third joint, special edition of our journal under the overarching theme of ‘Law and War’.

Submissions must be relevant to the subjects that relate to the intersection between ‘Law and War’. This overarching theme encompasses a vast range of topics such as challenging the effectiveness of ‘Jus in bello‘ (international humanitarian law) in light of the ‘war on terror’, ‘rogue states’, the historical origins of the laws of conventional warfare, or on broader themes such as the legal practice in international human rights, translation of legal norms within war and martial and strategic law. In particular, the editors would be interested in contributions addressing the implications for law and war of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit, protest movements, space exploration, and big data and AI. For examples of accepted works please see our second joint edition here.

All articles must be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Articles must comply with extension OSCOLA Guidelines (4th edition). Please click here for a conclusive guide. Guidance can be provided to authors unfamiliar with OSCOLA referencing requirements.

If you are interested in submitting an article for this exciting joint publication, please send the full text, as well as the required information (outlined below) to the following email address: [email protected]

Required Information

Title of the article, set in bold, ranged left and unjustified.
Name of the author or authors directly below the title, followed by institution affiliation, if applicable.
Five or six keywords.
Abstract of around 350 words
Article of between 4,000 and 6,000 words

We will be accepting submissions until Monday 3^rd August 2020 at 6pm (BST). We look forward to receiving your submissions.

The King’s Student Law Review and Strife

For any general enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

If you have any enquiries that are law-related or relate to KSLR’s work in this project or more generally, please contact: [email protected].

If you have any enquiries related to the topic of conflict more broadly or that relate to Strife’s collaboration in this project, please contact: [email protected]

Call for Papers - KSLR-Strife Joint Edition

March 19, 2018 by Strife Staff

Update - Deadline extended

As the two-leading student-led peer-reviewed academic journals at King’s College London, the King’s Student Law Review and Strife are pleased to announce the joint publication of a special edition under the overarching theme of ‘Law and War’. We will now be accepting submissions for this joint edition.

All articles must be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Articles must comply with Oxford Referencing style (and by extension OSCOLA for legal references and case notes). A simplified version of this referencing style has been included in the Submission guidelines attached below.

If you are interested in submitting an article for this exciting joint publication, please send an abstract as well as the required information (outlined below) to the following email address: [email protected]

Required Information

- Title of the article, set in bold, ranged left and unjustified.

- Name of the author or authors directly below the title, followed by institution affiliation, if applicable.

- Five or six keywords.

- Abstract of around 350 words

Update: We will be accepting submissions until Monday, the 30^th April 2018. If you have any further enquiries, please contact [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

The King’s Student Law Review and Strife

Submission Guidelines

1. Content

2. General Formatting

3. Spelling and Formatting Details

4. Referencing Style: Oxford Referencing & OSCOLA

1. Content

- All articles should be vaguely related to the intersection between ‘Law and War’. Both the terms ‘law’ and ‘war’ may be defined in a flexible manner.

- Accordingly, ‘law’ does not merely refer to the notion of Jus ad bellum (public international law referring to acceptable justifications to engage in war) and Jus in bello (the limits to acceptable wartime conduct, also known as international humanitarian law). ‘Law’ also covers international treaties, legal instruments, and conventions more generally, as well as notions of justice.

- Similarly, ‘war’ more generally refers to human conflict, broadly defined. Thus, submissions may include studies of conflict and law in history, for example, or the impact of law in the causes, conduct, consequences, resolution, and/or prevention of conflict.

- There is no restriction as to time period or geographical focus for both themes. We will accept all submissions that are relevant to the overarching theme of ‘Law and War’.

2. General Formatting

- Final submissions should contain a finalised, fully formatted text, with all corrections, insertions, and/or deletions ‘accepted’, the comment bubbles removed, and all underlinings by font or colour, as well as all editorial markings of any kind, on the margins or elsewhere eliminated to leave the text as it should appear in the publication, in its final, clean form.

- The text should be double-spaced, with the margins on both sides set to 3cm. The preferred fonts are Book Antiqua or Sabon. The preferred font size is 12 for the main text and 10 for footnotes.

- Roman, bold, and italic type can be used, but use of typeface and size should be consistent throughout the paper.

- Capitals should be used only where they are to appear in the finished text.

- The text should be ranged left and unjustified, with no hyphenation.

- Indents, underlining, and tabs should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Chapter/section headings should be ranged left and in italics.

- Paragraphs (and chapter headings, where applicable) should be separated by a full single carriage return (not just simple paragraph spacing as in the default MSWord2007 formatting).

- Footnotes should be ranged left, separated from the text by a footnote separator and have no indents.

- There should be only one space between words and only one space after any punctuation.

- Please do not include headers or footers, except normal numeration of pages.

- Please use prefers single speech marks for quotations, and double speech marks for quotations within quotations.

3. Spelling and Formatting Details

- We prefer UK spellings for all articles, wherever the author is based. US spelling should be edited accordingly, excluding names of US organisations where the spelling should be retained. Thus, for example ‘defence’ (UK spelling) is the preferred form, but ‘US Department of Defense’ (in its original, US spelling).

- We prefer ‘First World War’ to ‘World War I’, and ‘Second World War’ to ‘World War II’.

- We prefer dates (including ‘last visited/accessed’ references) to be written as ‘1 January 2000’, not ‘January 1, 2000’ or other formats.

- We prefer ‘nineteenth century’, to ’19^thcentury’ or ‘XIX century’.

- Spellings in quoted texts should not be altered. If they are obviously incorrect, insert [sic] after the controversial spelling.

- Imported foreign terms and expressions in Latin should be italicised where appropriate.

- Quotations inside a narrative sentence should close with a full stop after the speech marks. Sentences which finish inside a quotation should be punctuated in the normal way, followed by speech marks. For example: Jill said, ‘it was a nice day’. BUT Jill said, ‘it is now raining. It was a nice day.’

- Reference signs (numbers or, where appropriate, asterisks) should always follow, not precede punctuation marks in the text.

- We prefer pages to be denoted as follows: ‘p.’ for a specific page; ‘pp.’ for several pages divided by commas, or a page range. (For example: ‘p. 1’, ‘pp. 1, 5, 23’ and ‘pp. 1-23’).

- When citing a source, please add the relevant page(s) or page range. These can only be omitted in cases of references to unipage online materials or in cases where the author is referring to the work as a whole or suggesting further reading on a (sub)topic.

- In references to journal articles, Strifeprefers ‘Vol. 1, No. 1’ to ‘vol. 1, no. 1’ or to ‘1:1’.

- Titles of books, articles and other sources should be capitalised. For example: William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000, notWilliam H. McNeill, The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000

- In footnotes, titles of books, articles and other sources should be written out in full upon first mention, with the exception of excessively long book titles (usually from the Late Medieval and Renaissance periods), where a shortened version of the title would be acceptable.

- The number of the cited edition (6th/4th/ 12th edition) should be included in the reference only if the mention carries special significance, for example to highlight differences between editions or underscore the multiplicity of editions itself.

- All footnotes referring to a particular place within a source, should include relevant page number(s) or page range. This is unnecessary if reference is made to a source as a whole, for example when suggesting further reading.

- All references to online material should be given with the url in full, and accompanied by the date they were last accessed in parentheses.

- Westrongly discourage the rising modern practice of spontaneous acronym-making. Established acronyms (CIA; KGB; NATO; BBC; CNN; RT) are the norm and need little explanation, but authors should refrain from using acronyms where these are not widely established or remain limited for inside use (RHUL for Royal Holloway University of London; SJ/SB for Strife Journal/Blog, GWoT for the Global War on Terror, etc).

- Strife prefers USA and U.S. (not U.S.A. and US); USSR (not U.S.S.R.); and UK (not U.K.).

- ‘Ibid.’ should always be followed by a full stop, as it is an abbreviation.

- All references should be presented as footnotes, not endnotes or in-text parenthetical notes. Care should be taken to retain consistency in the reference style throughout the submitted work in accordance with the present guidelines

4. Referencing Style

a) General References

- This publication follows a customised version of Oxford notes format for footnotes and Bibliography/references.

- Legal references must be cited in line with OSCOLA (For examples of referencing, see the subsequent two pages.)

1. Referencing Examples

For books

- Hardt & A. Negri, Empire(Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 154.
Subsequent citations: Hardt & Negri, Empire, p. 167. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 168.

For book chapters

- Kawar, ‘Palestinian Women’s Activism after Oslo’, in Suha Sabbagh, Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank(Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 237.
Subsequent citations: Kawar, ‘Palestinian Women’s Activism’, p. 237. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 237.

For journal articles

- Barkawi & M. Laffey, ‘Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations’, in Millennium-Journal of International Studies, Vol. 31 (2002), p. 110.
Subsequent citations of the same: Barkawi and Laffey, ‘Retrieving the Imperial’, p. 124. If immediately subsequent: Ibid, p. 168.

For newspaper articles

- Curtis, ‘Universities Must Reveal Data on Dropout Rates and Teaching Time’, in The Observer(1 November 2009), p. 8.
Subsequent citations: Curtis, ‘Universities’, p. 8. If immediately subsequent: Ibid., p. 8
Note. In subsequent citations, the page reference should only be given when an article extends across two or more pages.

For online newspaper articles

- As above, but instead of page numbers, the article’s url and the date last accessed.

For government or judicial documents, opinions and consultations

- Generally the referencing conventions for books should be followed when such a publication appears in a book form, and referencing conventions for articles for shorter sources. In the case of an online publication without pagination, url and date last accessed should be entered instead of a page range.

2. Legal References & OSCOLA Quick Reference Guide

Primary Sources

- Do not use full stops in abbreviations. Separate citations with a semi-colon.

Cases

- Give the party names, followed by the neutral citation, followed by the Law Reports citation (eg AC, Ch, QB). If there is no neutral citation, give the Law Reports citation followed by the court in brackets. If the case is not reported in the Law Reports, cite the All ER or the WLR, or failing that a specialist report.

Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, [2008] 1 AC 884
R (Roberts) v Parole Board [2004] EWCA Civ 1031, [2005] QB 410

Page v Smith [1996] AC 155 (HL)

- When pinpointing, give paragraph numbers in square brackets at the end of the citation. If the judgment has no paragraph numbers, provide the page number pinpoint after the court.

Callery v Gray [2001] EWCA Civ 1117, [2001] 1 WLR 2112 [42], [45]
Bunt v Tilley [2006] EWHC 407 (QB), [2006] 3 All ER 336 [1]–[37]

R v Leeds County Court, ex p Morris [1990] QB 523 (QB) 530–31

- If citing a particular judge:

Arscott v The Coal Authority [2004] EWCA Civ 892, [2005] Env LR 6 [27] (Laws LJ)

Statutes and statutory instruments

- Act of Supremacy 1558
Human Rights Act 1998, s 15(1)(b)

Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amendment of Minimum Age) Order 2004, SI 2004/3166

EU legislation and cases

- Consolidated Version of the Treaty on European Union [2008] OJ C115/13

- Council Regulation (EC) 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (EC Merger Regulation) [2004] OJ L24/1, art 5
Case C–176/03 Commission v Council [2005] ECR I–7879, paras 47–48

European Court of Human Rights

- Omojudi v UK (2009) 51 EHRR 10
Osman v UK ECHR 1998–VIII 3124
Balogh v Hungary App no 47940/99 (ECHR, 20 July 2004)
Simpson v UK (1989) 64 DR 188

Secondary Sources Books

- Give the author’s name in the same form as in the publication, except in bibliographies, where you should give only the surname followed by the initial(s). Give relevant information about editions, translators and so forth before the publisher, and give page numbers at the end of the citation, after the brackets.

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ( rst published 1651, Penguin 1985) 268
Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009)

- K Zweigert and H Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Tony Weir tr, 3rd edn, OUP 1998)

Contributions to edited books

- Francis Rose, ‘The Evolution of the Species’
in Andrew Burrows and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)

Encyclopedias

- Halsbury’s Laws (5th Edn., 2010) Vol. 57, para 53

Journal articles

- Paul Craig, ‘Theory, “Pure Theory” and Values in Public Law’ [2005] PL 440

- When pinpointing, put a comma between the rst page of the article and the page pinpoint.

- JAG Grif th, ‘The Common Law and the Political Constitution’ (2001) 117 LQR 42, 64

Online journals

- Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT < http://ejlt.org//article/view/17 > accessed 27 July 2010

Command papers and Law Commission reports

- Department for International Development, Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future (White Paper, Cm 7656, 2009) ch 5
Law Commission, Reforming Bribery (Law Com No 313, 2008) paras 3.12–3.17

Websites and blogs

- Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May 2009) <www.nakedlaw. com/2009/05/index.html> accessed 19 November 2009

Newspaper articles

- Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times (London, 1 July 2010) 3

Strife Journal

October 18, 2012 by Strife Staff

Special Issue I (2015)

Journal Full Issue (PDF)

Contingency as the ‘Missing Link’: A New Approach to Understanding ‘Change’ in U.S. Foreign and Security Strategy in the 21st Century - p. 1.
Oliver B. Steward

The U.S. Supply of Military Assistance to Iraq, post Mosul: Pursuing Interests at the Cost of Influence - p. 9.
Emma Scott

Explaining U.S. Distrust of China’s Military Modernization - p. 16.
Xiongxiong Zhang

Emerging Challenges to Unipolarity: U.S. Grand Strategy and East Asian Order - p. 24.
Ramesh Balakrishnan

Capitalist Development, China’s Rise and US State Managers: Explaining ‘Pivot to Asia’ with Marxists Lenses - p. 31.
Zeno Leoni

False Foes and Fruitful Friction: U.S.-Turkish Military, Defence, and Intelligence Relations during the Erdogan Decade - p. 40.
Ben Sollenberger

It’s the ‘Special Relationship’, Stupid: Examining Israel-US Relations Through the Prism of Israeli Territorial Withdrawals - p. 48.
Rob Pinfold

The United States Security Policy in Cyberspace after Snowden - p.
Andrzej Kozłowski

Professional Military Education as an Hegemonic Tool in U.S. International Security Policy - p.
Duraid Jalili

Issue #5 – May/ June 2015