The digital anxiety of Homo digitalis, rather than liberating humanity, risks deepening its entanglement with extractive material systems.| E-International Relations
Farrell and Newman show how U.S. control of global infrastructure became a source of power and how its overuse now threatens the very system it built.| E-International Relations
Sharon Bong explores faith, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia, and calls for context-rooted rights activism that bridges religion, resistance, and belonging.| E-International Relations
Iran and Iranians should not simply be seen in terms of the periphery, but rather as having agency and in terms of actors on the global stage.| E-International Relations
Egypt's water security depends on balancing domestic innovation with diplomacy that transforms the Nile from a source of contention into a catalyst for shared prosperity.| E-International Relations
Colonialism drives climate change vulnerability in the global South through constructions of race and gender that are embedded in Western modern sustainability practices.| E-International Relations
Strategic and organizational considerations play a more decisive role in shaping women’s combat participation in violent political groups.| E-International Relations
The High Seas Treaty has shown the power of international treaties to protect global commons and provides a blueprint to for other ecosystems.| E-International Relations
US-China rivalry is rooted in divergent political and economic ideologies, giving rise to a persisting struggle playing out on a global scale.| E-International Relations
Kishore Mahbubani urges IR scholars to decolonize thought, embrace multipolarity, and rethink Western dominance as Asia and the Global South reshape world order.| E-International Relations
While the Paris Agreement is yet to go far enough in its outcomes it has still been the greatest force for progress yet seen in the global climate governance space.| E-International Relations
In Colombia, where historically impunity has predominated, a precedent for demanding accountability from perpetrators of gross human rights violations has been established.| E-International Relations
COP30 provides an opportunity for the global and the local to come together and collaborate to form policies which combine local knowledge with international resources.| E-International Relations
Resisting the fetish of force demands a scientific and political confrontation with the structures that sustain and normalize organized violence.| E-International Relations
The decolonial inflection is an intellectual current defined around a series of problems derived from colonialism and modernity, based on the intellectual and political experiences and trajectories of Latin America.| E-International Relations
Perhaps the greatest benefit of the ritual is to invite humanity to reflect on the vicissitudes of war and peace, even if our models to understand this vexing phenomenon are often wrong.| E-International Relations
Prohibition's coercive approach enables authoritarian statecraft, consequently undermining democratic governance that is necessary for human rights.| E-International Relations
Archive for October, 2025 | E-International Relations
Tunisia shows that revolutions do not always collapse immediately into dictatorship or war – they can stumble, backslide, and persist in twilight.| E-International Relations
CEPA signals Brussels may adopt a calibrated approach: maintaining strict regulatory rules, but showing flexibility on governance and procedural clauses when necessary.| E-International Relations
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Arab and Muslim leaders exemplified how high-level, collective visits can amplify pressure.| E-International Relations
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The recognition of trans identity in Iran is not a simple story of liberation, but a complex politico-theological act that simultaneously confirms and polices the boundaries of gender.| E-International Relations
The global competition over technology has spurred a frenzy of policy initiatives in the pursuit of the European Union’s strategic autonomy and digital sovereignty.| E-International Relations
The race for AI supremacy is about legitimacy, identity, and the authority to decide which values will be embedded in infrastructures that increasingly govern human life.| E-International Relations
The absence of international protection over the West Bank could see it devolve into a zone of devastation, rather than Palestinian safety.| E-International Relations
Today, wars are algorithmically targeted, fought at state borders and within cities, and financed by the dispossession of the very people the state claims to protect.| E-International Relations
The influence of race on the opinions of political leaders and its subsequent impact on the framing of foreign policy should not be neglected.| E-International Relations
Maia Sandu has decisively claimed victory and a new majority in parliament, a critical win for Moldova's future path to the EU.| E-International Relations
Introduced in its current modern iteration as a direct counter to Eurovision, Intervision is a new(-ish) play in global cultural diplomacy by Russia.| E-International Relations
Ukraine must avoid a death-debt spiral at a time of competing requirements and low appetites for “forever wars” among its allies.| E-International Relations
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.| E-International Relations
The war in Ukraine shows that the West has failed to present a decisive, unified, and sustainable strategy to defeat Russia or reshape the international order.| E-International Relations
Tokyo’s increasing militarization, improved regional partnerships, and diplomatic measures will be paramount in mitigating tensions with China and Russia.| E-International Relations
Recognizing borders as distributed violence allows scholars to reimagine sovereignty, governance, and order in ways that move beyond the Westphalian template.| E-International Relations
Britain must deepen its engagement with capable local actors in Syria if it hopes to pursue an effective and forward-looking Syria policy.| E-International Relations
People can move across continents quicker and cheaper than ever, so seeking entirely new borders based on snapshot demographic pictures has become more futile.| E-International Relations
Campagne’s study offers a rich account of France’s wokisme debate through a Franco-American lens, though deeper analysis of anti-woke discourse meaning is lacking.| E-International Relations
Integrating peacebuilding into climate action is not just a moral imperative but a strategic necessity.| E-International Relations
Through memory work and visceral imagery, feminist accounts memorialize women as victims and dissidents, yet they invertedly recenter male voice and reinforce patriarchy.| E-International Relations
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Timothy Rich talks about recognition of Taiwan, South Korean perceptions of refugees, and the advantages and challenges of collecting public opinion data.| E-International Relations
Brian Wong discusses how his research helps to better understand injustice in non-democratic countries, advance rights in East Asia, and facilitate effective dialogue between Hong Kong and China.| E-International Relations
Manan Ahmed discusses colonial epistemes, Hindustan, memory and Partition, and decolonising the university.| E-International Relations
This memoir traces Mahbubani's rise from poverty to diplomatic success in meritocratic Singapore but lacks deep political analysis and engagement with opposing views.| E-International Relations
Understanding more about the sexuality of genocidal violence will only come from an analysis of heterosexuality as a system of logic.| E-International Relations
While our personal names shape perceptions, the labels used to describe our gendered selves and desires are radically different to different people across time and place.| E-International Relations
Kevin Blackburn provides a detailed account of the sexual slavery practiced in wartime Singapore, but is limited by a dearth of first-hand testimony from local sources.| E-International Relations
Denmark's timely book includes a full assessment of US allies and partners and proposes logical strategic shifts necessary for the US in response to a rising China.| E-International Relations
This three-part documentary shows UK politicians and civil servants in action, explores what diplomats do, and the impact of Brexit with some amusing yet worrying footage.| E-International Relations
Ava Patricia Avila sets out the reasons for the steady military buildup by several Southeast Asian states, the impact on ASEAN, as well as the ways a gender perspective can enrich research on civil-military relations.| E-International Relations
Russia’s desire to limit Ukraine’s independence and to retake control of Crimea did not emerge during the Putin era. Rather they were there from the very beginning.| E-International Relations
If the home, the nation, the marketing brand of LGBTQIA are the only potential spaces of belonging, then where is home beyond these spaces?| E-International Relations
We must tackle the problem of sexual liberation to show how global narratives assert the existence of diverse sexualities but also impose external arrangements.| E-International Relations
Tuong Vu sheds light on the economic performance and policy choices of East Asian countries, and the extent to which they are influenced by political regimes.| E-International Relations
Tom Le explores the meaning of militarism, military recruitment strategies in Japan, and the US presence and security in East Asia.| E-International Relations
When US-China relations are better, Taiwan is safer. When bilateral relations deteriorate, Taiwan could be the first victim. Reunification is a Chinese domestic affair.| E-International Relations
China’s grand strategy under Xi Jinping is heading in a more assertive direction, yet still preserving a defensive-oriented foundation.| E-International Relations
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Unfortunately, Western leaders seem more concerned with kudos from Kyiv than with their opponent’s perspective.| E-International Relations
In a Clausewitzian sense, Putin has successfully used Russian force to impose Russia’s will on Ukraine.| E-International Relations
The attempt to employ whataboutisms in defence of Russia by citing intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya exposes the shallowness of such argumentation.| E-International Relations
The Ukraine crisis is the latest expression of the West’s refocus on Russia in what appears to be a failing strategy to contain Beijing.| E-International Relations
Veteran diplomat Bilahari Kausikan explores the foreign policy dynamics of the island city-state of Singapore, including how it creates and maintains relevance in the region and beyond.| E-International Relations
Mandelbaum's book is an analytically flawed, contradictory and unconventional piece of realist scholarship that considers the instability of the post-Cold War period.| E-International Relations
Dan Slater discusses the concepts of strength and weakness in democratisation, and how to account for variations in democratisation patterns across Asia.| E-International Relations
Joseph Liow details the global power dynamics shaping Southeast Asia, but adopts an oversimplified framework to analyse the impact of the US-China conflict on the region.| E-International Relations
Putin's vision of reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia is flawed and demonstrates his intransigence.| E-International Relations
Taking civilizational diversity seriously requires recognition that the global does not exist except as a constant interaction between various local communities.| E-International Relations
To refuse the discourses of war and racialization it is necessary to do more than place them in critical relation to those of anti-war and anti-racialization. Instead, we should refuse to distinguish the two.| E-International Relations
Russia’s actions in 2014 were not just a response specific events such as NATO enlargement, EU policy, democracy promotion or revolution in Ukraine.| E-International Relations
While seven of the eight Arctic states are NATO members, Russia is still a significant opponent in the region due to the size of its northern coastline and historical conditions.| E-International Relations
While Phillips provides an accessible and valuable international view of the Kurds, the book's one-sided perspective on several issues fails the reader.| E-International Relations
Zeynep Kaya tackles the repercussions of the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, the position of women in Iraqi Kurdistan and the recovery of Yazidi communities.| E-International Relations
Allsopp and van Wilgenburg draw on interviews to provide a detailed and less romanticized account of the emergence, consolidation and crisis of the DAA in Northern Syria.| E-International Relations
Despite some lingering inconsistencies, this is a substantial contribution to the field, strengthened by the inclusion of a diverse range of locally-informed authors.| E-International Relations
Global history's dark heritage can be lightened by telling the shared history of peacemaking, rather than focusing on war.| E-International Relations
The expansion of the worldwide peace movement is evidence of the continuing dialogue concerning "museums of war and peace" and Hiroshima/Nagasaki days are at the heart of that conceptualization.| E-International Relations
Archive for August, 2024 | E-International Relations
The Islamic Republic and its liegemen are preparing to sustain a multifront war against the US, Israel, and Arab foes.| E-International Relations
Minimizing human vulnerability to climate change is largely determined by the extent to which societies develop and organize themselves to be resilient to these changes.| E-International Relations
Archive for July, 2024 | E-International Relations
Climate change cannot be tackled by capitalist ecological policies of financial institutions and Western states but socio-economic justice and postcolonial epistemes.| E-International Relations
To Indigenise sexualities is a theoretical project in the sense of making visible how colonialism and sexuality interact within the perverse logic of modernity.| E-International Relations
