Book talk with Dr. Sassan Gholiagha: The Humanisation of Global Politics International Criminal Law, the Responsibility to Protect, and Drones

With Dr. Sassan Gholiagha Postdoctoral Researcher, European New School of Digital Studies SKILL Project.

About

The Humanisation of Global Politics, observes a growing humanisation of global politics relating to the appearance of individual human beings in discourses of global politics. It identifies a mismatch concerning International Relations theory and International Law and the study of the humanisation of global politics. To overcome this mismatch, Sassan Gholiagha proposes a novel theoretical framework based on feminist and constructivist International Relations theory and non-statist theories of International Law scholarship. The book applies this interdisciplinary framework together with an interpretative analytical framework to three cases: the discourse on prosecution, studying international criminal law and the work of the International Criminal Court; the discourse on protection, focusing on the Responsibility to Protect; and the discourse on the use of drones in targeted killing operations. Drawing on these case studies and the frameworks, the book identifies how individual human beings as participants in global politics position themselves and are positioned by others in these various discourses.

Bio

Sassan Gholiagha holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg. Having worked at the University of Hamburg, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and the Institute of International Relations at the TU Braunschweig, he currently is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the European New School of Digital Studies (European University Viadrina), Frankfurt(Oder), Germany. He has worked on norms research in International Relations (IR), security discourses, the Responsibility to Protect, international criminal law, drone strikes, human trafficking, and drug control. Currently, he is involved in an interdisciplinary project bringing computer scientists, higher education specialists, and IR scholars together to work on questions of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and argument mining in the context of IR scholarship and political debates. His research has been published in journals such as the International Journal of Human Rights, the International Journal of Political Theory, Global Constitutionalism, and Global Society. He has also published his work in several edited volumes.  

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