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The Geopolitics of the Homo Digitalis

The Geopolitics of the Homo Digitalis

In the age of Homo digitalis, screens are indispensable; without them, comprehension itself seems impossible. Immediacy defines this new...

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Axel Bastián Poque González

Thinking Global Podcast – Sarah Pink (Part Two)

Thinking Global Podcast – Sarah Pink (Part Two)

On this week’s episode, Prof. Sarah Pink chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this second episode of two about futures...

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Prof. Sarah Pink Speaks About Futures Anthropology

Review – How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Review – How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in PoliticsBy Hein de HaasPenguin Random House, 2024 In How migration really...

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Alice Fill

Thinking Global Podcast – Cynthia Enloe

Thinking Global Podcast – Cynthia Enloe

In this week's episode of the Thinking Global podcast, Cynthia Enloe talks with the team. To begin with, Professor Enloe unfolds her claim that...

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Cynthia Enloe Talks About Feminist International Relations

Technology and Military Diffusion: Assessing the Impacts on Military Effectiveness

Technology and Military Diffusion: Assessing the Impacts on Military Effectiveness

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Tewfik Hamel

International Relations and the Global System

International Relations and the Global System

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Stephen McGlinchey

Introducing Green Theory in International Relations

Introducing Green Theory in International Relations

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Hugh Dyer

The E-International Relations Newsletter

The E-International Relations Newsletter

Here’s your digest of all the published pieces on E-International Relations over the last few weeks. This newsletter, and all of our content, will...

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The Fortnightly Digest

Opinion – Gendered Exclusion: Rethinking Taiwan’s Marginalisation

Opinion – Gendered Exclusion: Rethinking Taiwan’s Marginalisation

Taiwan’s absence from multilateral institutions is often narrated as a diplomatic anomaly, a by-product of great power rivalry or a legal issue of...

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Joseph Black

Thinking Global Podcast – Wendy Brown

Thinking Global Podcast – Wendy Brown

In this week's episode of Thinking Global, Wendy Brown speaks with the Thinking Global team. First, Professor Brown explores Nihilism as...

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Wendy Brown Talks About Their New Book 'Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber

Queering Proportionality: The Impact of Trans Allyship on Palestinian Liberation

Queering Proportionality: The Impact of Trans Allyship on Palestinian Liberation

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Gray Black

Decolonising the IR Curriculum: Reflections from a Classroom

Decolonising the IR Curriculum: Reflections from a Classroom

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As...

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Ananya Sharma

The Fetish of Force: Why Weapons Are Not Just “Instruments” of War

The Fetish of Force: Why Weapons Are Not Just “Instruments” of War

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Julien Pomarède

America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited

America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited

This is an excerpt from The Praeter-Colonial Mind: An Intellectual Journey Through the Back Alleys of Empire by Francisco Lobo. Download the book free...

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Francisco Lobo

Revolutionary Immortality? The Death of Mao, Fifty Years On

Revolutionary Immortality? The Death of Mao, Fifty Years On

In his 1968 study Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Yale social psychologist Robert Jay Lifton (1926-2025)...

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Thomas J. Ward

MSt in International Relations at University of Cambridge

Earn a Cambridge Master’s in International Relations without a career break. Join our Open Evening to see how our 2-year part-time MSt lets you...

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Interview – Koen Slootmaeckers

Interview – Koen Slootmaeckers

Dr Koen Slootmaeckers is a Reader in International Politics at City St George’s, University of London. He is the EDI officer and trustee for UACES....

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Dr Koen Slootmaeckers Is A Reader In International Politics At City St George’s

The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach

The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Cornelia Navari

Towards a Global International Relations?

Towards a Global International Relations?

This is an excerpt from International Relations Theory, free to download from E-International Relations. The study of International Relations is...

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Amitav Acharya

The Global War on Drugs as Authoritarian Statecraft and Its Human Rights Costs

The Global War on Drugs as Authoritarian Statecraft and Its Human Rights Costs

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Salvador Santino Regilme

Who Believes in Gulf Futurism?

Who Believes in Gulf Futurism?

When the American-Qatari artist Sophia Al-Maria and Kuwaiti composer Fatima Al Qadiri coined the term “Gulf Futurism” more than a decade ago, they...

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Ahmed Elbenni

Introducing Liberalism in International Relations Theory

Introducing Liberalism in International Relations Theory

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Jeffrey W. Meiser

Opinion – Hong Kong’s Civil Society Space Amid National Security Convictions

Opinion – Hong Kong’s Civil Society Space Amid National Security Convictions

As expected, Joshua Wong Chi-fung pleaded guilty to the charge of “collusion with foreign forces”. Again, this raises questions about how Hong...

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Patrick Poon

Tunisia at a Crossroads: The Arab Spring’s Lone Flame, Fifteen Years On

Tunisia at a Crossroads: The Arab Spring’s Lone Flame, Fifteen Years On

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Suraj Yadav

Thinking Global Podcast – James Der Derian

Thinking Global Podcast – James Der Derian

James Der Derian talks with the Thinking Global team about Quantum International Relations, revealing what this could mean for International Relations...

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James der Derian Talks About Quantum International Relations

Review – The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West

Review – The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West

The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the WestBy Amitav AcharyaBasic Books, 2025 Amitav Acharya’s The...

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Bo Yuan Chang

Interview – Adam Humphreys

Interview – Adam Humphreys

Adam Humphreys is Associate Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading. He...

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Adam Humphreys Is Associate Professor And Head Of Department In The Department Of Politics And International Relations

The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America

The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America

This is an excerpt from The Praeter-Colonial Mind: An Intellectual Journey Through the Back Alleys of Empire by Francisco Lobo. You can download the...

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Francisco Lobo

Judging the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond the Scorecard

Judging the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond the Scorecard

In September 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, committing themselves to a common...

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Mitu Sengupta

Henry Kissinger’s Opening to China Was More than a ‘China Card’

Henry Kissinger’s Opening to China Was More than a ‘China Card’

Henry A. Kissinger’s opening to China has long occupied a near-mythical place in the history of the Cold War. His secret trip to Beijing in July...

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Daeho Kwon

Opinion – Could Vietnamese-Style Hedging Have Prevented an All-Out War in Ukraine?

Opinion – Could Vietnamese-Style Hedging Have Prevented an All-Out War in Ukraine?

*Originally published in 2024. Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid subscriber, or...

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Janko Bekić

Thinking Global Podcast – Arne Westad

Thinking Global Podcast – Arne Westad

Professor Arne Westad (Yale University) talks with the Thinking Global team about what it is to 'think globally' when it comes to...

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Arne Westad Talks About What It Is To 'Think Globally

Geostrategic Dissonance and Hyperrealism: A Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Contradiction in International Politics

Geostrategic Dissonance and Hyperrealism: A Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Contradiction in International Politics

This article was shortlisted as part of the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University...

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Gustavo A. Báez Castillo

International Relations Theory: Still a White Man’s Burden

International Relations Theory: Still a White Man’s Burden

*Originally published in 2020. Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid...

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Seema Narain

The Sustainable Development Goals: An Assessment of Ambition

The Sustainable Development Goals: An Assessment of Ambition

Originally published in 2016 and preserved as part of our archive project. Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free. As you sign...

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Mitu Sengupta

From Treaty Ports to BRI Courts: China’s Legal Statecraft, Then and Now

This article was shortlisted as part of the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University...

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Ashton Ng

Russia's War on Everybody And What It Means for You

Russia's War on Everybody And What It Means for You By Keir GilesBloomsbury Publishing, 2024 "You may not be interested in Russia. But...

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Emma Isabella Sage

Climate Justice after the ICJ: Authority, Diffusion, and State Responsibility

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh

Opinion – Iran's War on Kurdish Opposition: Organised, Not Armed

In the early hours of 17 August 2026, two explosive drones struck the private office of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour...

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Yunus Abakay

Soft Power Viral: TikTok, Memes, and Transnational Dissent in the Age of Digital Influence

This article was shortlisted as part of the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University...

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Mauricio Percara

Interview – Amitav Acharya

Dr. Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service,...

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Opinion – The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement: Strategic Ambiguity or Institutional Gap?

On 7 August 2026, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement. The public joint statement says that an armed attack...

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Roie Yellinek

Review – The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present

The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and PresentBy Serhii PlokhyHarvard University Press, 2023 This book is a collection of writings by Harvard...

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Taras Kuzio

Asian Perspectives on International Relations Theory

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Pichamon Yeophantong

Forecasting the Next World War: Between Theory and Practice

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Raphaël Dosson

The Quantum Race: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Global Security Governance

This article was shortlisted as part of the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University...

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Elena Zancanaro

Thinking Global Podcast – Sarah Pink (Part One)

On this week’s episode, Prof. Sarah Pink chats with chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this first episode of two about her own...

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Prof. Sarah Pink Speaks With The Thinking Global Team In Episode One Of Two About Futures Anthropology

The Nation-State: An Oxymoronic Relationship?

International relations theorists often refer to the ‘nation-state’ in their analyses, tending to avoid academic precision. Some years ago, a...

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William Mallinson And Andrey Voynitsky

The End of History and the Return to Geopolitics

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered directly to your inbox, free of...

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Raphaël Dosson

The Dangers of AI Hype

*Originally published in 2025 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As...

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Ilan Manor