![[ROAPE] The Coloniality of Biometric Power: Global Digital Empire, Biometric State and the Control of Digital Subjects in Nigeria](https://iocss.org/content/images/2026/03/journal-feature-roape.svg)
Victor Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck introduce the concept of 'biometric coloniality' to explain how digital ID systems in Nigeria reproduce colonial relations of domination through a 'digital consensus' among the EU, US, China, World Bank, and major foundations. The biometric state is complicit in
Read more →![[JCA] What Has Happened to the Poster Child: Is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?](https://iocss.org/content/images/2026/03/journal-feature-jca.svg)
Soo Hyun Lee and Timo Fleckenstein challenge the 'democratic backsliding' framing for South Korea, proposing instead the concept of a 'democratic rollercoaster' — significant advances under progressive administrations followed by sharp regression under right-wing governments. The root cause, they ar
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A book review by Geoffrey C. Chen (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) of Alex Y. Lo and Chen Xiang's Edward Elgar monograph on China's climate governance. The review highlights the book's framework — deploying authoritarian environmentalism, the centralised developmental state, and ecological civi
Read more →![[FOCUS_GLOBAL] Against the Tides: Uprisings and Protests in Troubled Waters](https://iocss.org/content/images/2026/03/journal-feature-focus-global.svg)
This article analyses the global wave of uprisings and social protests between 2019 and 2025 as a conjunctural phenomenon reflecting converging structural crises, examining why mass mobilization has produced disruption without durable political transformation.
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This article examines strategies available to states and non-state actors for resisting weaponized interdependence — the use of asymmetric economic dependencies as coercive instruments — identifying diversification, coalition-building, and norm entrepreneurship as complementary resistance strategies
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Rama Salla Dieng argues that Senegal's 2026 anti-gender legislation — raising prison sentences for same-sex relations to ten years — is not a cultural or religious phenomenon but a political displacement strategy by a government in fiscal crisis, operating through patriarchal governance structures w
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Ethan Woolf Moñino argues that bandit groups in Northwest Nigeria have built an alternative economic system that extracts revenue through territorial control and systematic taxation. Banditry is not a cultural or ethnic phenomenon but a rational, profit-seeking enterprise filling the governance vacu
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Sara Caria and Stefano Ghinoi apply social network analysis to AidData to show that Chinese development finance in Africa is differentiated and evolving — not monolithic. The Belt and Road Initiative marks a structural turning point, while natural resource endowments are not the primary driver of Ch
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A philosophical introduction to IOCSS research on sport, artificial intelligence, fairness, embodiment, and institutional trust.
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A philosophical introduction to IOCSS research on AI-generated culture, authorship, identity, aesthetics, and interpretation.
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