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Sara Kermanian is a PhD candidate and doctoral tutor in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and international relations, with a focus on theories of time, [geo]political imaginations, alternative imaginations, sovereignty and subjectivity, power and resistance. Her geographical focus is on Middle Eastern [geo]politics, particularly when related to Kurdistan, Turkey, and Iran.

Her PhD thesis offers a framework for understanding the intertwined construction of social and international imaginaries that challenges the methodological reliance of both mainstream and postcolonial perceptions of the international order on the West-Rest dualism. She explores this inquiry in the context of the contrasting but interrelated emergence of democratic confederalism and neo-Ottomanism.

Öcalan’s Solution for Our Crises: Restoring Social Ethics to Politics

The world is trapped in a vicious cycle of crisis. In other words, as Barry Gills and Hamed Hosseini claim, “we are living through a great implosion.” The environment is decaying, poverty is widening, inequality is growing, and war is spreading. The recent data from The Armed Conflict Survey indicates the growing number of armed […]