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The Myth of Post-Industrial War: Regenerative Power and the Future of Deterrence

The Myth of Post-Industrial War: Regenerative Power and the Future of Deterrence

The future of deterrence may depend less on the weapons an alliance possesses today than on its collective ability to regenerate combat power...

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Martina Sprague

Why Rivalries Survive Shocks: Stability Ranges and Tipping Points

Why Rivalries Survive Shocks: Stability Ranges and Tipping Points

Enduring interstate rivalries depend on strategic conditions that determine whether major shocks reinforce persistence or produce lasting...

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Edwin Akpotu

Thinking Global Podcast – Astha Chadha

Thinking Global Podcast – Astha Chadha

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.

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E-International Relations

Beyond Recognition: Mediatized Sovereignty and the Crisis of International Legitimacy

Beyond Recognition: Mediatized Sovereignty and the Crisis of International Legitimacy

Palestinians have been returning to one simple question: does recognition matter when legitimacy is detached from protection?

monday 20

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Hussein Alahmad

Rule-Setting After Primacy: America’s Networked Realism at 250

Rule-Setting After Primacy: America’s Networked Realism at 250

The United States will not recover the ease of the unipolar moment, and it should not try.

monday 10

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Stefan Messingschlager

Opinion – “Poetic Imageries” and the Politics of Witnessing in Iran

Opinion – “Poetic Imageries” and the Politics of Witnessing in Iran

In today’s hyper-visible wars, poetic imageries continue to create spaces where suffering can be imagined, felt, and remembered beyond the spectacle...

26.06.2026 60

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Marcelle Trote Martins

Opinion – How a War Meant to Break the Islamic Republic Revived It

Opinion – How a War Meant to Break the Islamic Republic Revived It

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...

26.06.2026 60

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Naser Ghobadzadeh

Opinion – Beyond the Backyard: US Presence in Latin America During the Trump Era

Opinion – Beyond the Backyard: US Presence in Latin America During the Trump Era

Radical shifts in foreign policy under Trump are not only counterproductive, they reveal a profound misunderstanding of evolving global politics.

25.06.2026 40

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Sergio Villarroel

Opinion – From Euratom to Northeast Asia: Franco-German Lessons for Tokyo and Seoul

Opinion – From Euratom to Northeast Asia: Franco-German Lessons for Tokyo and Seoul

The ultimate goal is to establish a disciplined, sustainable structure of cooperation that takes history seriously while refusing to allow history to...

25.06.2026 60

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Ju Hyung Kim

AI as Statecraft: How Asia Is Rewriting the Rules of Technology Power

AI as Statecraft: How Asia Is Rewriting the Rules of Technology Power

The AI race is not a competition about sophisticated regulations or large investment commitments, but one about solving the adoption coordination...

23.06.2026 70

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Mark Esposito And Bruno S. Sergi

Interview – Andrea Miotti

Interview – Andrea Miotti

Andrea Miotti, founder and CEO of ControlAI, discusses researching AI, superinterlligence, the X-risk thesis and mitigating AI risks.

22.06.2026 80

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E-International Relations

Ali Mazrui and the Limits of Positivism

Ali Mazrui and the Limits of Positivism

Mazrui has left behind an exceptionally fertile conceptual legacy for examining power, modernity, and culture from the perspective of the Global IR.

21.06.2026 70

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Seifudein Adem

Opinion – How Do Small States Survive? The Armenian Election Shows an Example

Opinion – How Do Small States Survive? The Armenian Election Shows an Example

Nikol Pashinyan won again by turning pro-Western alignment, stability, and economic promises into political survival.

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Hyeran Jo

Opinion – No Agreement with Tehran Can Save a Regime Rejected by Its People

Opinion – No Agreement with Tehran Can Save a Regime Rejected by Its People

Trump’s deal with Iran may pause an external crisis, but it cannot resolve Tehran’s political, social and existential crisis of legitimacy.

21.06.2026 60

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Ramesh Sepehrrad

Opinion – Why the Anthropocene Failed to Deliver on Its Promise

Opinion – Why the Anthropocene Failed to Deliver on Its Promise

It seems that the more attentive governments and international authorities have been to the disastrousness of industrial modernity, the more enabled...

21.06.2026 60

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David Chandler

China’s Global Initiatives through a Latin American Lens

China’s Global Initiatives may function as a resource for governments seeking to maintain the margin of maneuver that multipolarity has opened.

19.06.2026 60

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Alberto Maresca

America’s Suez Moment? The Middle East Conflict and the Limits of U.S. Primacy

The emerging challenge for the US is the growing availability of economic and diplomatic alternatives that limit unilateral influence.

19.06.2026 70

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Nader Rahimi

Opinion – The Simmering Polish-Ukrainian Memory Wars

The memory wars in Poland and Ukraine will persist so long as the political and military dynamics on the ground continue to evolve.

15.06.2026 70

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Alexander Brotman

Science Fiction and the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Future War

Sociotechnical imaginaries and science fiction can provide IR scholars with new resources for studying the processes through which make sense of...

15.06.2026 50

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Tom F.a. Watts And Duncan Depledge

E-IR x BISA 2026 – Kimberly Hutchings on Non-violence, Violence and Peace

Kimberly Hutchings, the Keynote Speaker of the BISA Conference 2025, speaks on the Thinking Global Podcast about violence, non-violence and peace.

15.06.2026 80

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E-International Relations

Opinion – Why the Original Thucydides Trap Fails the Taiwan Strait Crisis

The Thucydides Trap in this scenario is also one of misperceptions and miscalculations among the three sides.

14.06.2026 70

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Jinghao Zhou

Opinion – Traditional Knowledge and its Role within the BBNJ Agreement

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.

11.06.2026 80

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Piyumani Ranasinghe

Opinion – India’s Nationalist Rhetoric Threatens Bangladesh’s Water Security

If rivers become instruments of cooperation, they can sustain livelihoods, ecosystems, and regional stability. Otherwise, consequences will be dire.

11.06.2026 70

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Shafi Md Mostofa

FIFA, the 2026 World Cup, and the Politics of Involuntary Sportswashing

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...

10.06.2026 90

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Franco Laguna Correa

Theory Will Not Decolonize: Material Decolonization in IR Knowledge Production

IR’s decolonization movement requires material reparative action in its knowledge production processes, not extensive intellectual elaboration.

09.06.2026 50

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Min Young Park

E-IR x BISA 2026 – Day 3

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 3 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.

08.06.2026 80

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E-International Relations

Review – Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing

Samir Puri’s analysis is grounded historically, treats non-Western actors as agents rather than objects, and insists that order is contested rather...

07.06.2026 80

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Khulan Bud

Opinion – Can Iran and the United States Overcome the Deadlock of Red Lines?

The key question is not whether Iran and the US disagree, but whether both sides are willing to define rules for managing those disagreements.

07.06.2026 90

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Abed akbari

E-IR x BISA 2026 – Day 2

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.

06.06.2026 80

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E-International Relations

Interview – Mark Ellis

Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association, discusses his efforts for Ukraine, the increased use of universal jurisdiction,...

04.06.2026 90

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E-International Relations

E-IR x BISA 2026 – Day 1

The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 1 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2026 in Brighton.

04.06.2026 90

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E-International Relations

Interview – Brent J. Steele

Brent J. Steele discusses ontological security studies, US foreign policy, his critiques of the Just War Tradition, and historical International...

03.06.2026 100

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E-International Relations

Interview – Niharika Pandit

Niharika Pandit discusses reconceptualising power, violence, and resistance by foregrounding liberatory thought from the margins of the Global South.

02.06.2026 100

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E-International Relations

Opinion – ESG and the Rise of Regulatory Substitution in Africa

In a range of areas, the market is taking control because governments have failed to enforce, verify and protect.

02.06.2026 100

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Christopher Burke

June Fourth Unavenged: Hong Kong and Britain’s Unresolved Legacy

As Hong Kong’s space for public remembrance narrows, the struggle over historical truth, political identity and collective memory remains far from...

31.05.2026 90

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Ka Hang Wong

Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Normative Vision to Security Statecraft

Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy has evolved from a normative vision into an instrument of security statecraft. Through Official...

30.05.2026 90

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Bharish soibam

Opinion – Reimagining Democratic Systems with More-than-humans

What unites more-than-human approaches is a shared recognition that the future of democracy depends on reimagining the imaginaries on which it is...

29.05.2026 90

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Claudia fernandez de cordoba farini

Political Research Is Always Ethically and Politically Suspect

Recognising that political science will always be suspect does not invalidate the field; it transforms it, allowing researchers to produce more...

26.05.2026 70

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Krishna batabyal

Why Western Strategists Should Continue Reading Liu Cixin’s The Dark Forest

Beyond its radical perspective on deterrence, The Dark Forest offers a window into Chinese strategic thought.

25.05.2026 90

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Luke M. Herrington

The Future as Politics: East Asia and World Order

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...

25.05.2026 100

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Igor sevenard

The Role of the Neo-Authoritarian Bloc in Modern Conflicts

China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Venezuela and Myanmar form an authoritarian block who collaborate in an amorphous, flexible, manner.

25.05.2026 100

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Gerard Mcdermott

Foreign Policy Analysis and Trump: Risk, Iran, and the Limits of Decision-Making Models

Trump’s foreign policy requires a layered approach that accounts for the interplay between structure and agency.

25.05.2026 100

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Kristian alexander

Opinion – Why We Should Abandon Christian Realism

The theoretical insights that Christian realism offers are not so different from classical realism that it justifies a new moniker.

24.05.2026 100

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John h.s. Åberg

Rethinking International Relations in the Age of the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene expands rather than overturns International Relations, extending critical approaches while challenging state-centric and...

20.05.2026 80

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Valentina orbacchi

Opinion – The Enlisting of Indonesia’s Islamic Organisations for the Gaza Board of Peace Charter

Faith-based organisations have become integral components of a foreign policy legitimation process that are mobilised when decisions require religious...

20.05.2026 100

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Estalia rona ratu roy

Hong Kong’s Future Beyond China: A UK-Based Charter City Vision

Hong Kong’s shrinking autonomy has revived constitutional imaginaries of Crown Dependency and diaspora governance beyond Chinese rule.

20.05.2026 100

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Ka Hang Wong

Far Right Foreign Policy after Liberal Internationalism

The far right’s hyper-nationalism, together with ideological, domestic and historical differences prevents the adoption of a concerted approach...

19.05.2026 100

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Thorsten wojczewski

Hong Kong’s National Security Education: From ‘Asia’s World City’ to a Sinocentric Node

National security education is a powerful tool of spatial and ideological governance, producing new geographical imaginations.

15.05.2026 100

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Ho-Yeung Yiu

Opinion – What the Iran War Vindicates about Clausewitz

Washington has not yet demonstrated it can turn military superiority into a durable political outcome – a problem Clausewitz understood better than...

15.05.2026 100

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Andrew Latham

Opinion – On the Question of Who Should Lead the Global South

The Global South’s greatest strength may not be in producing a potential hegemon, but building a world order shaped by coordination rather than...

14.05.2026 100

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Camila abbondanzieri