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International law has ceased to be substantive, pluralist, robust, and the guarantor of minimal standards of autonomy and pluralism among states.
In order to achieve Hobbes’ security goals, social contract at the domestic and international levels should include both traditional and modern...
Peace Studies offers a critical orientation that refuses to treat survival, justice, and sustainability as separable objectives.
Even if President Trump moved from rhetorical opposition to concrete action, this would not settle the matter – it would merely defer it.
Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape...
A series of hawkish New York Times editorials have focused on US military capacity while ignoring democratic legitimacy.
A Pakistan–Bangladesh rapprochement involving China and Türkiye is causing Delhi to worry that India could potentially be excluded from its own...
A sustainable resolution of the Northern Epirus question depends on minority rights enforcement, local political representation and bilateral...
EU policymakers leveraged internal and external political pressures to create a sense of urgency, legitimizing a shift to prioritize economic over...
In times of crisis, binding legislation remains a necessary tool to ensure coordinated, timely, and effective action.
There are hints in his papers that even in the early 1940s Londonderry had hopes of a ‘peace party’ to negotiate with Hitler.
Emmanuel Macron has recently returned to classical realism’s insistence that survival depends on the capacity to threaten harm.
The erosion of macrodependency is uneven and incomplete, but is reflective of structural shifts that were anticipated long ago.
Venezuela’s future depends Washington’s goals, which remain unclear and enshrouded in the general chaos of the second Trump term.
In the Thinking Borders series Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran,...
Somaliland is not simply the entity that enjoyed de jure recognition of sovereignty. It is a much different and internally contested entity.
Venezuela’s takeover publicly signals that material power is insufficient without normative control over legality.
Small modular reactors offer greater access to nuclear energy, but they also pose novel proliferation risks that international safeguards are not yet...
Medical humanitarianism presents itself as neutral by framing suffering as universal and solvable through technical medical intervention, separate...
Julianne Liebenguth explores environmental security, abolitionist politics, and how crisis-driven notions of security shape power, inequality, and...
Harman reveals how women’s health is politicised and neglected worldwide, linking healthcare inequality to power and paths forward for women globally.
Israeli intelligence intensified its covert contact with Somaliland throughout 2024, culminating in formal diplomatic recognition and a strategic...
Niebuhr insisted that military power must serve moral power and when the latter is absent, what remains is political realism stripped of its Christian...
Iran’s unrest is real, but it lacks unified leadership, a shared political vision, and an agreed alternative state structure.
Treaty obligations can exist on paper while enforcement remains absent, particularly where no binding adjudication exists to compel compliance.
Estonia has stood between a rules-based international order that serves the interests of small states and one where powerful states prey on the weak.
Washington’s actions in the coming years may reshape the political and economic landscape of the Western hemisphere.
Africans are in a position to create alternative solutions, establish a regulatory framework, and pursue the development of genuine digital...
The world is currently in a fragile imbalance as US hegemonic power declines amidst the rise of Trump’s hemispheric foreign policy.
The assault on Venezuela represents a pivotal moment in the contemporary energy geopolitics of the region.
As long as the AU remains deficient in funding its activities and has to rely on the West, and now China, it will be obligated to further the...
If drug enforcement were the operative concern in Trump’s calculus, Venezuela would barely register.
The internationalization of the Venezuelan crisis is neither inevitable nor simply the result of domestic authoritarian drift
This sustained character of Trump’s foreign policy decisions constitute a reversal of multilateral expectations after the end of the Cold War.
Neo-Ottomanism represents a civilizational state nationalism of restorative nostalgia, seeking the restoration of imperial status in a hierarchical...
Astha Chadha calls for a post-Western Global IR that embraces religion, hauntology, and non-Western cosmologies to rethink power, justice, and...
Syrian politics today looks like a frontline of totalising projects competing to own the future in the name of the nation, the revolution, or the...
The emerging academic sub-discipline of political hauntology explores how the past, especially lost or failed futures, can haunt the present.
Israel’s move to spearhead the re-recognition of Somaliland is a watershed moment that marks a potential point of no return in Somaliland’s quest...
Institutional contestation is less a marker of illiberal capacity and more an indication of liberal ambivalence.
Discursive construction in the region centres on identifying left-leaning politics as the primary opponent, rather than the managerial global elites.
While the longstanding effects of the Trump era trade war affect everyone, Latin American countries are vulnerable but not defenseless.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, contributing to conflict only where weak land tenure governance amplifies drought-induced social and...
The 2025 election is another chapter in a long-running performance designed to mask the persistence of military domination in Myanmar.
Bringing together researchers and students to watch a pop culture artefact and discuss its implications for IR is a very accessible way to enter into...
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy has adopted Mearsheimer’s aims for US to achieve predominance in the West and prevent great powers to...
Weapons experts consulted by the BBC suggested that an obsolete, more potent agent like camite was used, alongside CS-gas, in Tbilisi.
National sentiment in Japan can diverge sharply over military instalments, and local resistance remains a source of uncertainty for Prime Minister...
Ankit Panda reflects on a new nuclear age marked by great-power rivalry, rising proliferation pressures, and fading arms control, urging realism about...
The NSS 2025 shares an unrealistic belief that simply being the world’s predominant in power will inevitably deliver positive outcomes for the...
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