Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 1
George Kyris, The Recognition of a Right to Statehood and Palestine
On 14 November 2025, we spoke to George Kyris about his article on “The Recognition of a Right to Statehood and Palestine”.
George is an Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Birmingham and the co-founder and chair of the ECPR Research Network on Statehood, Sovereignty and Conflict. You can find out more about him here.
You can access the article we discuss in this episode here for free.
The special issue on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Reflections on the Politics of Stalemate, co-edited by Karl Cordell, Brendan O’Leary and Stefan Wolff (Ethnopolitics 15(4), 2016), is available here.
You can listen to the whole episode here for free.
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