Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed…
Kraemer, Joseph A. 2015. Journal of Film and Video 67, no. 3-4: 57-68. Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing…
Gallagher, Rosemary. 2012. Studies in American Humor 26: 73-84. Gallagher synthesizes the use of humor in narratives of war as well as those of peace, through the lens of famous anti-war novelist Kurt Vonnegut. She…
Mohammed, Sadek R. 2018. World Literature Today 92, no. 2: 32-36. Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored…
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East.…
Gleditsch, Nils P, Jonas Nordkvelle, and Håvard Strand. 2014. Journal of Peace Research 51, no. 2: 145-158 This text traces the development of Peace Research from its origins with Johan Galtung and the Journal of Peace…
Gomes, Mariana Selister, and Marques, Renata Rodrigues. 2021. In Security Dialogue 52: 78-87. This article echoes a larger scholarly debate about The Copenhagen School – also known as the securitization theory. See…
Paris, Roland. 2002. Review of International Studies 28, no. 4: 637-656. This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of…
Jorgensen, Paul A. 1953. Huntington Library Quarterly 16, no. 4: 319–52. This article asserts that Shakespeare should be investigated as a treatise on how Renaissance England visualized war and peace, suggesting that…