I research and publish widely on topics related to politics and international relations, international security, political sociology, popular culture and visual politics.

Monographs

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. Representation, Recognition and Respect in World Politics: The Case of Iran-US Relations. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Articles

Duncombe, Constance. ‘See Touch Feel: Theorizing Twitter/X Images for Diplomacy. Millennium, 53(1): 191-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241290089 (Open Access pre-print accepted manuscript available here).

Zvobgo, Kelebogile, Arturo Sotomayor, Maria Rost Rublee, Meredith Loken, George Karavas and Constance Duncombe. Forthcoming 2023. ‘Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars’. Security Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2230880.

Duncombe, Constance. 2020. ‘Social Media and the Visibility of Horrific Violence’, International Affairs 96(3): 609-629.

Rost Rublee, Maria, Emily Jackson, Susan Peterson, Eric Parajon, and Constance Duncombe. 2020. ‘Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies’. Journal of Global Security Studies 5(1): 216-226.

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. ‘Popular Culture, Post-Truth and Emotional Framings of World Politics’, Australian Journal of Political Science https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2019.1663405.

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. ‘The Politics of Twitter: Emotions and the Power of Social Media’. International Political Sociology 13(4): 409-429.

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. ‘Digital Diplomacy: Identity and Emotion in the Public Realm’. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 14(1-2): 102-116.

Duncombe, Constance and Tim Dunne. 2018. ‘After Liberal World Order’. International Affairs 94(1): 25-42.

Duncombe, Constance. 2017. ‘Twitter and Transformative Diplomacy: Social Media and Iran-US Relations’. International Affairs 93(3): 545-562. (Editor’s Choice May Edition)

Duncombe, Constance. 2016. ‘Representation, Recognition and Foreign Policy in the Iran-US Relationship’. European Journal of International Relations 22(3): 642-655. (EJIR’s Top 20 Most Cited Articles for the past 3 years (2016-2019)

Duncombe, Constance. 2011. ‘Foreign Policy and the Politics of Representation: The West and Its Others’. Global Change, Peace and Security 23(1): 31-46.

Book Chapters

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. ‘Iran, terrorism and the post-9/11 world order’. In Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/11. Ed. David Martin Jones. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Duncombe, Constance and Christian Reus-Smit. 2019. ‘Culture, Diversity and Technology’. In Technologies of International Relations. Eds. Carolin Katolfen, Madeline Carr and Michele Acuto. UK: Palgrave Pivot, Cham.

Duncombe, Constance and Roland Bleiker. 2015. ‘Popular Culture and Political Identity’. In Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies. Eds. Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton. UK: E-International Relations.

Duncombe, Constance. 2014. ‘Social Media, Representation and Crisis in Iran and Libya’. In The Contemporary Middle East: Revolution or Reform? Eds. Adel Ghafar, Brenton Clarke and Jessie Moritz, pp. 180-199. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press. 

Non-Refereed Articles

Duncombe, Constance. 2022. ‘H-Diplo Review Essay 407: Sensibilizing Politics’. H-Diplo. Available at: https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/9572423/h-diplo-review-essay-407-sensible-politics.  

Duncombe, Constance. 2019. ‘Twitter and the Challenges of Digital Diplomacy’. SAIS Review 38(2): 91-100.

Duncombe, Constance. 2018. ‘Recognition in Global Politics: The Challenge of Images and Technology’. E-International Relations. Available at: https://www.e-ir.info/2018/09/05/recognition-in-global-politics-the-challenge-of-images-and-technology/.

Book Reviews

Duncombe, Constance. 2018. ‘Pili, by Sophie Harman’. International Affairs 94(2): 458-459.

Duncombe, Constance. 2016. ‘The violence of the image: photography and international conflict. Edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick’. International Affairs 92(3).

Duncombe, Constance. 2016. ‘Emotional diplomacy: official emotion on the international stage. By Todd Hall’. International Affairs 92(1): 198-199.

Duncombe, Constance. 2015. ‘Cowardice: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh’. Global Discourse 6(1-2): 258-261.

Duncombe, Constance. 2015. ‘Political insults: how offenses escalate to conflict. By Karina V. Korostelina’. International Affairs 91(2): 417-418.

Duncombe, Constance. 2014. ‘International Politics of Recognition, by Thomas Lindemann and Erik Ringmar: Non-Recognition in International Relations – Developing New Approaches to Political Problems’. Global Discourse 4(4): 536-538.

Duncombe, Constance. 2011. ‘Review: International Relations and States of Exception: Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies by Shampa Biswas and Sheila Nair (eds)’. Political Studies Review 9(2): 241-242.

Blogs

Duncombe, Constance. 2018. ‘Focusing Less on Trump and More on Language Helps Explain Why the Latest Iran Nuclear Deal Upheaval is Simply Politics as Usual’. LSE-USAPP Blog.

Duncombe, Constance and Tim Dunne. 2018. ‘Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Liberal World Order’. International Affairs Blog.

Duncombe, Constance. 2017. ‘Technological Change and the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper’. Griffith Asia Insights Blog.

Duncombe, Constance. 2017. ‘How Twitter Enhances Conventional Diplomacy’. Oxford University Press Academic Blog.

Duncombe, Constance. 2017. ‘How Twitter is Transforming Diplomacy: Iranian tweets and the P5+1 Nuclear Negotiations’. International Affairs Blog.

Duncombe, Constance. 2016. ‘How looking at language, not stockpiles, helps explain the latest dispute over Iran’s ballistic missile program’. LSE-USAPP Blog.