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…
Lerner, Laurence. 1995. New Literary History 26, no. 3: 641–65. This text analyzes the notion that Peace Studies should be viewed as a new critical perspective through which literature can be studied, much like…
Kvasnicka, L. and Finnegan, A.C. 2020. Peace Change, 45: pp. 426-454. This article examines the notion of peace studies as a discipline that is dominated by female scholars and aims to examine this phenomenon. It notes…
Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose…