This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political Studies. It underscores importance of innovations in political speech as a key continuing attraction scholars rhetorical methods. is particularly relevant at moment crisis and disruption established democracies when parameters acceptable discourse have been brought into question by forms ‘post-truth’ po...

T H E welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. Analysts frequently portray these conflicts as fundamental struggles between supporters and opponents of the basic principles of the post-war social contract. They often emphasize that the politics of social policy are played out against the backdrop of a transformed global econ...

Abstract This paper explores the promises and pitfalls of using ethnographic methods to analyze global politics in turbulent times. Ethnography has not gone unnoticed by international relations (IR) scholars, but method remains at fringes discipline. While acknowledging more recent feminist practice theorist contributions research IR, this brings together contemporary across diverse issue areas...