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Thinking Global Podcast – Thinking Borders: Shahram Khosravi

Thinking Global Podcast – Thinking Borders: Shahram Khosravi

In the Thinking Borders series Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran,...

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E-International Relations

Opinion – Recognising Divided Somaliland

Opinion – Recognising Divided Somaliland

Somaliland is not simply the entity that enjoyed de jure recognition of sovereignty. It is a much different and internally contested entity.

yesterday 9

E-International

Markus Virgil Hoehne

Energy Security as Hierarchy: Venezuelan Oil in the US-China-Russia Triangle

Energy Security as Hierarchy: Venezuelan Oil in the US-China-Russia Triangle

Venezuela’s takeover publicly signals that material power is insufficient without normative control over legality.

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Anya Kuteleva

Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors

Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors

Small modular reactors offer greater access to nuclear energy, but they also pose novel proliferation risks that international safeguards are not yet...

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Aaron Wolf

Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism

Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism

Medical humanitarianism presents itself as neutral by framing suffering as universal and solvable through technical medical intervention, separate...

16.01.2026 42

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Felix Willuweit

Interview – Julianne Liebenguth

Interview – Julianne Liebenguth

Julianne Liebenguth explores environmental security, abolitionist politics, and how crisis-driven notions of security shape power, inequality, and...

16.01.2026 36

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E-International Relations

Review – Sick of It

Harman reveals how women’s health is politicised and neglected worldwide, linking healthcare inequality to power and paths forward for women globally.

16.01.2026 42

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Meena Masood

Opinion – Will Somaliland Become the Taiwan of the Horn of Africa?

Opinion – Will Somaliland Become the Taiwan of the Horn of Africa?

Israeli intelligence intensified its covert contact with Somaliland throughout 2024, culminating in formal diplomatic recognition and a strategic...

15.01.2026 53

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Hamdy A. Hassan

Opinion – A Niebuhrian Analysis of the US Operation in Venezuela

Opinion – A Niebuhrian Analysis of the US Operation in Venezuela

Niebuhr insisted that military power must serve moral power and when the latter is absent, what remains is political realism stripped of its Christian...

15.01.2026 53

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Klaus Heinrich Raditio

Opinion – The Missing Factor in Iran’s Unrest is Ethnic Division

Opinion – The Missing Factor in Iran’s Unrest is Ethnic Division

Iran’s unrest is real, but it lacks unified leadership, a shared political vision, and an agreed alternative state structure.

15.01.2026 51

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Ali Askerov

Opinion – Nepal’s Use of Lethal Force and South Asia’s Enforcement Vacuum 

Opinion – Nepal’s Use of Lethal Force and South Asia’s Enforcement Vacuum 

Treaty obligations can exist on paper while enforcement remains absent, particularly where no binding adjudication exists to compel compliance.

15.01.2026 62

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Bhavya Johari

Estonia: Small State Security and the International Order

Estonia: Small State Security and the International Order

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.

13.01.2026 68

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Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman

From French Guiana to the Falklands: Could US Influence Reshape Europe’s Overseas Territories?

From French Guiana to the Falklands: Could US Influence Reshape Europe’s Overseas Territories?

Washington’s actions in the coming years may reshape the political and economic landscape of the Western hemisphere.

12.01.2026 68

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Peter Clegg

Digital Colonialism Is the New Scramble for Africa

Digital Colonialism Is the New Scramble for Africa

Africans are in a position to create alternative solutions, establish a regulatory framework, and pursue the development of genuine digital...

12.01.2026 67

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Titilope Ajeboriogbon

Repeating Iraq in Venezuela: Different Presidents, Same Mistake

Repeating Iraq in Venezuela: Different Presidents, Same Mistake

The world is currently in a fragile imbalance as US hegemonic power declines amidst the rise of Trump’s hemispheric foreign policy.

12.01.2026 47

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Bülent Gökay

Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America

Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America

The assault on Venezuela represents a pivotal moment in the contemporary energy geopolitics of the region.

12.01.2026 66

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Axel Bastián Poque González

Opinion – External Funding Dependence in African Union Conflict Resolution

Opinion – External Funding Dependence in African Union Conflict Resolution

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...

06.01.2026 46

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Jude Cocodia

Opinion – Trump’s Spectacle of Domination in Venezuela

Opinion – Trump’s Spectacle of Domination in Venezuela

If drug enforcement were the operative concern in Trump’s calculus, Venezuela would barely register.

06.01.2026 14

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Richard W. Coughlin

Opinion – Venezuela and the Cost of Abandoning South American Collective Defense

Opinion – Venezuela and the Cost of Abandoning South American Collective Defense

The internationalization of the Venezuelan crisis is neither inevitable nor simply the result of domestic authoritarian drift

06.01.2026 17

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Guilherme Frizzera

The Diffuse Unilateralism of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention

The Diffuse Unilateralism of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention

This sustained character of Trump’s foreign policy decisions constitute a reversal of multilateral expectations after the end of the Cold War.

04.01.2026 68

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Carlos Frederico Pereira Da Silva Gama

Neo-Ottomanism as Civilizational Nationalism: Turkey’s Quest for Identity

Neo-Ottomanism represents a civilizational state nationalism of restorative nostalgia, seeking the restoration of imperial status in a hierarchical...

02.01.2026 61

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M. Hakan Yavuz

Interview – Astha Chadha

Astha Chadha calls for a post-Western Global IR that embraces religion, hauntology, and non-Western cosmologies to rethink power, justice, and...

02.01.2026 89

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E-International Relations

Contested Horizons in Post-Ba’ath Syria

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...

01.01.2026 22

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Yunus Abakay

Ulster’s Political Hauntology and the Forces Research Unit

The emerging academic sub-discipline of political hauntology explores how the past, especially lost or failed futures, can haunt the present.

30.12.2025 24

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Martin Duffy

Opinion – Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland

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...

30.12.2025 71

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Jamal Abdi

Rethinking the ‘Illiberal International’: Power, Fragmentation, and Institutions

Institutional contestation is less a marker of illiberal capacity and more an indication of liberal ambivalence.

28.12.2025 81

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Eko Ernada

The Far-Right and the Construction of the Red Enemy in Latin America

Discursive construction in the region centres on identifying left-leaning politics as the primary opponent, rather than the managerial global elites.

27.12.2025 47

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Cairo Junqueira

Opinion – How Latin America Can Navigate the US-China Trade War

While the longstanding effects of the Trump era trade war affect everyone, Latin American countries are vulnerable but not defenseless.

23.12.2025 77

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Sergio Villarroel

Land, Climate, and Conflict: Unravelling the Nexus in Sudan, Syria, and Morocco

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, contributing to conflict only where weak land tenure governance amplifies drought-induced social and...

23.12.2025 76

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Isabel Mackellar

Elections as Spectacle: Myanmar’s Manufactured Legitimacy

The 2025 election is another chapter in a long-running performance designed to mask the persistence of military domination in Myanmar.

22.12.2025 9

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Federica Cidale

The Desert of Dune to the University Classroom: Pop-culture and Political Theory

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...

21.12.2025 23

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Faiz Sheikh

Opinion – The Mearsheimer Logic Underlying Trump’s National Security Strategy

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy has adopted Mearsheimer’s aims for US to achieve predominance in the West and prevent great powers to...

19.12.2025 11

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Mark N. Katz

Opinion – Evidence that Georgia Deployed WW1-Era Chemicals against Demonstrators

Weapons experts consulted by the BBC suggested that an obsolete, more potent agent like camite was used, alongside CS-gas, in Tbilisi.

19.12.2025 21

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Martin Duffy

Opinion – Okinawa’s Struggle with Ongoing US Military Presence

National sentiment in Japan can diverge sharply over military instalments, and local resistance remains a source of uncertainty for Prime Minister...

19.12.2025 15

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Peter Chai

Interview – Ankit Panda

Ankit Panda reflects on a new nuclear age marked by great-power rivalry, rising proliferation pressures, and fading arms control, urging realism about...

18.12.2025 45

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E-International Relations

The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States

The NSS 2025 shares an unrealistic belief that simply being the world’s predominant in power will inevitably deliver positive outcomes for the...

17.12.2025 23

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Seán Molloy

The Hedley Bull – Ali Mazrui Dialogue as a Metaphor for IR

The intellectual relationship between Mazrui and Bull remains one of the most instructive cross-civilizational dialogues in the history of IR.

17.12.2025 14

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Seifudein Adem

The State of China’s Soft Power in 2025

China’s gains are hard to deny, but five years are not enough to define a new paradigm of attraction in international relations.

17.12.2025 14

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Daniele Carminati

Opinion – China’s Expanding Security Footprint in Africa

The trajectory of China as a long-term player in Africa’s security will be shaped by both its global ambitions and the continent’s own...

17.12.2025 20

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Georg Lammich

Opinion – Alliance Shock Revisited: What 1968-69 Means for 2025

If Tokyo and Seoul fail to deepen strategic integration, they risk repeating the illusion that regional security can exclusively rely on a single...

17.12.2025 20

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Ju Hyung Kim

The Security Council Resolutions: Is Decolonisation in Danger?

Normalisation of Morocco’s claim erodes the line between lawful self-determination and coercive annexation, gutting legal prohibitions preventing...

16.12.2025 39

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi And Victor Kattan

Opinion – The Emerging Phenomena of ‘Fake’ International Election Observation

As representative democracy faces increasing scrutiny, election observation plays a pivotal role in restoring voter trust.

16.12.2025 18

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Martin Duffy

Opinion – The Dual Track Stability of AUKUS and the QUAD

As reaffirmed by the Trump administration, the dual architecture of AUKUS and the Quad is a strategic necessity that benefits all partners.

16.12.2025 28

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Christopher Burke

Trump and the Politics of the Permanent Exception

Democracies persist not by removing sovereignty but by preventing its capture by figures who treat public authority as the extension of their personal...

15.12.2025 49

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Arthur Michelino

AI Companions and the Threat of Weaponized Synthetic Intimacy

Left unregulated, personalised AI systems could become powerful tools of foreign influence.

15.12.2025 55

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Ilan Manor

Hong Kong Fire: Dissent and Alarm under the National Security Law

Hong Kong’s political dormancy looks increasingly brittle: one undeniable governance failure is all it takes for the embers of civic consciousness...

15.12.2025 43

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Ho-Yeung Yiu

Review — The Impetuous Rise of the Global South

This edited collection presents a timely, multidimensional take on the Global South that clarifies Latin America’s role while adding layers to an...

10.12.2025 27

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Guilherme Casarões

Peace Building Opportunities in the Shadow of Scholasticide in Gaza?

The complete destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure presents a tremendous foundational obstacle to peace.

07.12.2025 59

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Akram Jamee

Opinion – The Neo-Ottoman Conquest of Damascus: One Year Later

While the future remains uncertain in Syria, the “Neo-Ottoman State-Client System” has seemingly succeeded and will continue to be implemented.

04.12.2025 32

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Jack Dulgarian

Opinion – Purposive, Not Reactive: Japan’s Museum Diplomacy in Egypt

By investing in institutions that preserve identity and heritage, Japan is constructing influence that outlasts any single loan agreement or...

04.12.2025 24

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Seohee Park