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Hard Power and Legitimacy in the Chagos Archipelago

Hard Power and Legitimacy in the Chagos Archipelago

It is US hard power, rather than the Chagos agreement or any successor to it, that will ensure that Diego Garcia can continue to play its role in the...

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Derrick Wyatt

Maturing City Diplomacy: Comparing Yokohama and Taipei

Maturing City Diplomacy: Comparing Yokohama and Taipei

City diplomacy, like the cases of Yokohama and Taipei, is becoming increasingly vital as state-level diplomacy becomes subject to the whims of...

20.02.2026 10

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Daniel Clausen

BRICS and the Global South: Anticipating the Steps of the Global North

BRICS and the Global South: Anticipating the Steps of the Global North

Flexibility, the search for consensus, and the need to engage with difference are increasingly recognized by the Global North as survival strategies.

20.02.2026 10

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Marta Fernández And Maria Elena Rodriguez

Butterfield and the Tragedy of Politics: Classical Realism’s Contested Core

Butterfield and the Tragedy of Politics: Classical Realism’s Contested Core

Herbert Butterfield’s tragedy arises from a lack of “imaginative sympathy” in war; his co-idealogues diverge on the roots of the tragedy that is...

20.02.2026 60

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Jack Merrett

Greenland, Sovereignty, and Europe’s Double Standards

Greenland, Sovereignty, and Europe’s Double Standards

There is not one version of international law for some countries and another version for others, irrespective of the conduct and discourse of some...

19.02.2026 50

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Emmanuel Achiri

Trump’s Vision for Greenland and the Emerging World Order

Trump’s Vision for Greenland and the Emerging World Order

The US has incurred significant reputational costs and it is a mistake to think that the new post-rules-based world order will spell peril only for...

17.02.2026 40

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Erdem Lamazhapov

Trump’s Vision for Greenland and the Emerging World Order

Trump’s Vision for Greenland and the Emerging World Order

The US has incurred significant reputational costs and it is a mistake to think that the new post-rules-based world order will spell peril only for...

17.02.2026 30

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Erdem Lamazhapov

Genocide in the New Geopolitics

Genocide in the New Geopolitics

Gaza appears to be the Achilles’ heel of the idea that the liberal order can be salvaged from the Trumpian onslaught.

15.02.2026 50

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Martin Shaw

How NATO is Surviving Donald J. Trump

How NATO is Surviving Donald J. Trump

NATO has taken on new roles and responsibilities that will mitigate possibilities of a terminal rupture in transatlantic relations.

15.02.2026 50

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Martin A. Smith

Myanmar: The ‘In-Between Space’ and Its Implications

Regionalization in South Asia and Southeast Asia resulted in Myanmar embodying the qualities of ‘in-between space’ as the emergent regions...

12.02.2026 20

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K. Yhome

Can Kazakhstan’s Regional Ecological Summit Save the Caspian Sea?

Water security is a sensitive issue for landlocked Central Asia due to population growth and the mismanagement of resources.

10.02.2026 30

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Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Opinion – After Greenland, is French Guiana America’s Next Territorial Prize?

Europe now faces the uncomfortable truth that NATO’s long-term viability in a post-Greenland scenario is uncertain.

10.02.2026 30

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Rodrigo Ruiz

Opinion – The Trump Phenomenon: Tyranny in Full Swing

Modern mass society and its leaders across the globe have self-inflicted a tragedy of existential, Sophoclean scope.

10.02.2026 30

E-International

Hartmut Behr

Interview – Constanza Jorquera

Constanza Jorquera discusses China’s Indo-Pacific strategy, East Asian soft power, and feminist foreign policy.

10.02.2026 30

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E-International Relations

From the Periphery to the Centre: Why Civil Society is the Future of Peacebuilding

In the Cypriot context, the growing disassociation and absence of international support have led a space for indigenous actors to shape the island’s...

09.02.2026 40

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Mark Barrow

The Poverty-Crisis Trap: Why Financial Crises and Poverty Reinforce Each Other

The bidirectional relationship between poverty and financial crises creates a development trap that conventional siloed approaches cannot address.

08.02.2026 50

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Vincent J. Hooper

Iranians Are Ready for Foreign Assistance with Regime Change

The draconian response to recent protests by the Islamic Republic’s leaders is moving ordinary Iranians away from nationalism toward interventionism.

08.02.2026 50

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Jamsheed K. Choksy And Carol E. B. Choksy

Heroes and Villains: Trump’s “365 Wins in 365 Days” as Messaging Template

By anchoring every policy decision in the hero-villain narrative, the White House ensures that the populist political energy of the election carries...

05.02.2026 60

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Richard J. Cook And Igor Sevenard

The Trump Corollary and the Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: The End of International Law?

International law has ceased to be substantive, pluralist, robust, and the guarantor of minimal standards of autonomy and pluralism among states.

04.02.2026 50

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Juan Pablo Scarfi

Benedict, Tradition, and the Wilsonian Social Contract

In order to achieve Hobbes’ security goals, social contract at the domestic and international levels should include both traditional and modern...

03.02.2026 70

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Patricia Sohn And Uddhab Pyakurel

Peace Studies and International Relations in an Age of Polycrisis

Peace Studies offers a critical orientation that refuses to treat survival, justice, and sustainability as separable objectives.

02.02.2026 40

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Theo Valois Souza Ferreira

Opinion – Will the Chagos Deal Survive?

Even if President Trump moved from rhetorical opposition to concrete action, this would not settle the matter – it would merely defer it.

02.02.2026 30

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Peter Clegg

Interview – Shirin M. Rai

Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape...

02.02.2026 50

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E-International Relations

Opinion – Why American Military Power No Longer Produces Security

A series of hawkish New York Times editorials have focused on US military capacity while ignoring democratic legitimacy.

29.01.2026 40

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Richard W. Coughlin

Opinion – New Nexus among Bangladesh, Pakistan and Türkiye: India’s New Headache?

A Pakistan–Bangladesh rapprochement involving China and Türkiye is causing Delhi to worry that India could potentially be excluded from its own...

28.01.2026 50

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Tapas Das

The Northern Epirus Question: A Persistent Challenge in Greek–Albanian Relations

A sustainable resolution of the Northern Epirus question depends on minority rights enforcement, local political representation and bilateral...

28.01.2026 60

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Emmanouil Peponas

Balancing Green Goals and Competitiveness: Reframing EU Climate Policy

EU policymakers leveraged internal and external political pressures to create a sense of urgency, legitimizing a shift to prioritize economic over...

26.01.2026 50

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Helena Lutze

Opinion – Why Legislation Matters in Times of Global Climate Crisis

In times of crisis, binding legislation remains a necessary tool to ensure coordinated, timely, and effective action.

26.01.2026 50

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Yoana Almog Weymann Sade

Ulster Fascism: A Secret History of Lord Londonderry

There are hints in his papers that even in the early 1940s Londonderry had hopes of a ‘peace party’ to negotiate with Hitler.

25.01.2026 80

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Martin Duffy

France in the Era of Predators: Macron’s 2025 Doctrine

Emmanuel Macron has recently returned to classical realism’s insistence that survival depends on the capacity to threaten harm.

21.01.2026 70

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Arthur Michelino

Opinion – American-Centered Interdependence in Transition

The erosion of macrodependency is uneven and incomplete, but is reflective of structural shifts that were anticipated long ago.

21.01.2026 60

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Seifudein Adem

Opinion – Near-Term Scenarios for US Strategy Towards Venezuela

Venezuela’s future depends Washington’s goals, which remain unclear and enshrouded in the general chaos of the second Trump term.

21.01.2026 90

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Jack Dulgarian

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,...

19.01.2026 40

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E-International Relations

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.

19.01.2026 50

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Markus Virgil Hoehne

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.

18.01.2026 100

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Anya Kuteleva

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...

17.01.2026 90

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Aaron Wolf

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 70

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Felix Willuweit

Interview – Julianne Liebenguth

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

16.01.2026 70

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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 80

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Meena Masood

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 90

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Hamdy A. Hassan

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 100

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Klaus Heinrich Raditio

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 80

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Ali Askerov

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 90

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Bhavya Johari

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 100

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Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman

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 100

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Peter Clegg

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 100

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Titilope Ajeboriogbon

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 80

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Bulent Gokay

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 100

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Axel Bastián Poque González

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 70

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Jude Cocodia

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 40

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Richard W. Coughlin