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The future of deterrence may depend less on the weapons an alliance possesses today than on its collective ability to regenerate combat power...
Enduring interstate rivalries depend on strategic conditions that determine whether major shocks reinforce persistence or produce lasting...
Dr. Astha Chadha speaks about her award-winning article on a Hauntological Approach to Truth and Non-Violence, Non-Western Global IR, and much more.
Palestinians have been returning to one simple question: does recognition matter when legitimacy is detached from protection?
The United States will not recover the ease of the unipolar moment, and it should not try.
In today’s hyper-visible wars, poetic imageries continue to create spaces where suffering can be imagined, felt, and remembered beyond the spectacle...
If the Islamic Republic emerges from the conflict intact, the war will become a long-term source of symbolic legitimacy and internal cohesion for the...
Radical shifts in foreign policy under Trump are not only counterproductive, they reveal a profound misunderstanding of evolving global politics.
The ultimate goal is to establish a disciplined, sustainable structure of cooperation that takes history seriously while refusing to allow history to...
The AI race is not a competition about sophisticated regulations or large investment commitments, but one about solving the adoption coordination...
Andrea Miotti, founder and CEO of ControlAI, discusses researching AI, superinterlligence, the X-risk thesis and mitigating AI risks.
Mazrui has left behind an exceptionally fertile conceptual legacy for examining power, modernity, and culture from the perspective of the Global IR.
Nikol Pashinyan won again by turning pro-Western alignment, stability, and economic promises into political survival.
Trump’s deal with Iran may pause an external crisis, but it cannot resolve Tehran’s political, social and existential crisis of legitimacy.
It seems that the more attentive governments and international authorities have been to the disastrousness of industrial modernity, the more enabled...
China’s Global Initiatives may function as a resource for governments seeking to maintain the margin of maneuver that multipolarity has opened.
The emerging challenge for the US is the growing availability of economic and diplomatic alternatives that limit unilateral influence.
The memory wars in Poland and Ukraine will persist so long as the political and military dynamics on the ground continue to evolve.
Sociotechnical imaginaries and science fiction can provide IR scholars with new resources for studying the processes through which make sense of...
Kimberly Hutchings, the Keynote Speaker of the BISA Conference 2025, speaks on the Thinking Global Podcast about violence, non-violence and peace.
The Thucydides Trap in this scenario is also one of misperceptions and miscalculations among the three sides.
The future of ocean governance may ultimately depend not only on what we choose to protect, but also on whose knowledge we choose to value.
If rivers become instruments of cooperation, they can sustain livelihoods, ecosystems, and regional stability. Otherwise, consequences will be dire.
The 2026 World Cup will proceed. But proceeding is not the same as succeeding, and a successful tournament is not the same as a moment of global...
IR’s decolonization movement requires material reparative action in its knowledge production processes, not extensive intellectual elaboration.
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 3 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.
Samir Puri’s analysis is grounded historically, treats non-Western actors as agents rather than objects, and insists that order is contested rather...
The key question is not whether Iran and the US disagree, but whether both sides are willing to define rules for managing those disagreements.
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.
Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association, discusses his efforts for Ukraine, the increased use of universal jurisdiction,...
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 1 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.
Brent J. Steele discusses ontological security studies, US foreign policy, his critiques of the Just War Tradition, and historical International...
Niharika Pandit discusses reconceptualising power, violence, and resistance by foregrounding liberatory thought from the margins of the Global South.
In a range of areas, the market is taking control because governments have failed to enforce, verify and protect.
As Hong Kong’s space for public remembrance narrows, the struggle over historical truth, political identity and collective memory remains far from...
Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy has evolved from a normative vision into an instrument of security statecraft. Through Official...
What unites more-than-human approaches is a shared recognition that the future of democracy depends on reimagining the imaginaries on which it is...
Recognising that political science will always be suspect does not invalidate the field; it transforms it, allowing researchers to produce more...
Beyond its radical perspective on deterrence, The Dark Forest offers a window into Chinese strategic thought.
Temporality in IR posits imagined futures not as a neutral horizon but as a means through which international relations is conducted as states act on...
China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Venezuela and Myanmar form an authoritarian block who collaborate in an amorphous, flexible, manner.
Trump’s foreign policy requires a layered approach that accounts for the interplay between structure and agency.
The theoretical insights that Christian realism offers are not so different from classical realism that it justifies a new moniker.
The Anthropocene expands rather than overturns International Relations, extending critical approaches while challenging state-centric and...
Faith-based organisations have become integral components of a foreign policy legitimation process that are mobilised when decisions require religious...
Hong Kong’s shrinking autonomy has revived constitutional imaginaries of Crown Dependency and diaspora governance beyond Chinese rule.
The far right’s hyper-nationalism, together with ideological, domestic and historical differences prevents the adoption of a concerted approach...
National security education is a powerful tool of spatial and ideological governance, producing new geographical imaginations.
Washington has not yet demonstrated it can turn military superiority into a durable political outcome – a problem Clausewitz understood better than...
The Global South’s greatest strength may not be in producing a potential hegemon, but building a world order shaped by coordination rather than...