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Is “Backwardness” a Problematic Concept of Uneven and Combined Development?

Is “Backwardness” a Problematic Concept of Uneven and Combined Development?

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H. P. Gia Nguyen

Neorealism’s Regional Blindspot: The Arctic and South China Sea

Neorealism’s Regional Blindspot: The Arctic and South China Sea

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Anthony Heron

All Under Heaven: China’s Awakening

All Under Heaven: China’s Awakening

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

Review – Stormy Seas: Taiwan Under the Shadow of China in the 21st Century

Review – Stormy Seas: Taiwan Under the Shadow of China in the 21st Century

Stormy Seas: Taiwan Under the Shadow of China in the 21st CenturyBy Thung-Hong LinStanford University Press, 2026 Taiwan’s turbulent place in global...

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Martin Duffy

EU Membership for Russia: A Brief History of a Fantastical Idea

EU Membership for Russia: A Brief History of a Fantastical Idea

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Curtis Large

Outsider Geopolitics: To Be, or Not to Be, in the Arctic

Outsider Geopolitics: To Be, or Not to Be, in the Arctic

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Eda Ayaydin And Andreas Raspotnik

Review – Autocracy, Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Review – Autocracy, Inc. The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the WorldBy Anne ApplebaumPenguin Random House, 2024 Increasingly, autocracies are forming a...

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Stephen G. F. Hall

Review – Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Review – Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic GovernanceBy Richard Clark Cambridge University Press, 2025 The map of global economic...

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Henning Schmidtke

Introducing Constructivism in International Relations Theory

Introducing Constructivism in International Relations Theory

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Sarina Theys

Advice on Attending Your First International Studies Academic Conference

Advice on Attending Your First International Studies Academic Conference

Whether large-scale or small, international or local, your first academic conference is always a nerve-wracking experience. Conferences are great...

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İpek Nil Ozat

Thinking Global Podcast – Yongjin Zhang

Thinking Global Podcast – Yongjin Zhang

On this week’s episode, Professor Yongjin Zhang (@BristolUni) chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Hira Malik about his own...

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Professor Yongjin Zhang Speaks With The Thinking Global Team About Chinese World Ordering

Heartland vs. Sea Power: Why the Rimland Will Shape the Future of World Order

Heartland vs. Sea Power: Why the Rimland Will Shape the Future of World Order

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Anu Anwar

Critical Terrorism Dictionary: Terrorism and Terrorist

Critical Terrorism Dictionary: Terrorism and Terrorist

This is an excerpt from Critical Terrorism Studies: A Dictionary by Lee Jarvis and Alice Martini. Available in all good book stores, and via free...

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Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini

Threat Perception in International Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Leaders’ On-Going Experience

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Eitan Oren

A Decolonial Critique of R2P and Humanitarian Intervention in MENA

A Decolonial Critique of R2P and Humanitarian Intervention in MENA

Three years into Israel’s genocide, ecocide, scholasticide, and urbicide in Gaza, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, including over...

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Mojtaba Mahdavi

Is Continued US-Iran Hostility Inevitable? Rereading Walt’s ‘Revolution and War’ Thirty Years Later

Is Continued US-Iran Hostility Inevitable? Rereading Walt’s ‘Revolution and War’ Thirty Years Later

The U.S. and Iran have had antagonistic relations ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This constant state of hostility, of course, is...

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Mark N. Katz

Defending a Partner: Air Defense as Diplomacy in Israel–UAE Relations

Defending a Partner: Air Defense as Diplomacy in Israel–UAE Relations

In late April 2026, Axios reported that Israel had deployed an Iron Dome air defense battery to the United Arab Emirates along with Israel Defense...

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Noiranjana Kashyap

Argentine Territorial Nationalism in an Era of Trump and Milei

Argentine Territorial Nationalism in an Era of Trump and Milei

The University of Oregon political geographer Alex Murphy once wrote about territory’s continuing allure (Murphy 2013). In essence, Murphy posited...

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Matthew C. Benwell And Klaus Dodds

Interview – Max Koffi

Interview – Max Koffi

*Originally published in 2023 and preserved as part of our archive project. E-International Relations is free to read. We rely on reader support to...

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Max Koffi Explains The Aims Of The Equal Trade Alliance And How The Redesign Of Trade Relations Could Reduce Poverty And The Impact Of Climate Change

Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance

Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance

In the aftermath of the Cold War, liberal internationalism emerged as the dominant paradigm of global governance. Rooted in the conviction that...

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Sefa Secen

Russia's Internet Research Agency and Cyberwarfare

Russia's Internet Research Agency and Cyberwarfare

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Clare Stevens And Andreas Haggman

Opinion – Multilateralism’s Collapse Under Trump and the Call for Global South Pluriverse

Opinion – Multilateralism’s Collapse Under Trump and the Call for Global South Pluriverse

Multilateralism, in brief, refers to multiple countries working together to achieve a common goal through diverse membership in international...

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Shoutao Wu

Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory

Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory

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Sheila Nair

Confucius Institutes in Argentina and China’s Soft Power Strategy

Confucius Institutes in Argentina and China’s Soft Power Strategy

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Mauricio Percara

Introducing Marxism in International Relations Theory

Introducing Marxism in International Relations Theory

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Maïa Pal

What I Learned from Geolocating 1,000 Satellite Images

What I Learned from Geolocating 1,000 Satellite Images

In the autumn of 2024, I set down to create a unique dataset on war and armed conflict. I pored over hundreds of satellite images of everything from...

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William Goodhind

Thinking Global Podcast – Athanasios Gkoutzioulis

Thinking Global Podcast – Athanasios Gkoutzioulis

On this week’s episode, Dr. Athanasios Gkoutzioulis speaks with Stephen Satkiewicz about Hegel and IR Theory. They chat about reading Hegel in IR,...

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Athanasios Gkoutzioulis Speaks About The Place Of Hegel In Ir Theory

Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health

Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health

Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's HealthBy Sophie HarmanVirago Books, 2024 Harman’s Sick of It is an important examination of...

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Meena Masood

Hezbollah’s Hemispheric Backup: Strategic Redundancy in South America

Hezbollah’s Hemispheric Backup: Strategic Redundancy in South America

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Jeffery A. Tobin

Interview – Gillian Youngs

Interview – Gillian Youngs

Gillian Youngs has held Professorial and Visiting Scholar positions in the UK, USA and Hong Kong. She is currently a Visiting Professor at University...

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Gillian Youngs Has Held Professorial And Visiting Scholar Positions In The Uk

The E-International Relations Newsletter

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

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Your Fortnightly Digest

Between Pax Silica and WAICO: Latin American States’ Place in the AI Order

In June 2026, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama joined Pax Silica, the US flagship initiative to build an artificial intelligence...

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Mateus Bilhar

Reflections on Generative AI in Academic Writing

AI has been a revolutionary tool for all those who communicate ideas. It has also revolutionised how people access information, and impacted some of...

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Stephen McGlinchey

Now Recruiting: Commissioning Editors

Being a Commissioning Editor with E-International Relations is a dynamic and rewarding volunteer role for anyone who enjoys reading, and helping to...

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Join Our Team In This Exciting Volunteer Role

Relating with BRICS: Why South African Foreign Policy Needs a Dose of Realism

In December 2010, when South Africa was formally incorporated into BRICS, the country’s foreign ministry said it was in line with its commitment to...

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Hussein Solomon

Greenland (Still) Between Empires: Continuing Imperial Sovereignty Games

In a joint press conference on the 22nd of September 2026, the Greenlandic premier, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and the Danish Prime Minister, Mette...

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Eva Leth Sørensen

Wargaming in the US Military: Ludic Militarism and the Production of Warfighters

After more than a decade of research, it is no longer necessary to make the case for the study of games in IR. It is now established in the field that...

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Aggie Hirst

Eco-Socialism: An Introduction

Eco-socialism was developed in the 1970s following the rise of the global environmental movement in the 1960s (O’Connor 1998). It was integrated...

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Vivian Ike

Introducing the English School in International Relations Theory

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Yannis Stivachtis

Reflections on Quantitative Analysis in Religion and International Relations

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Peter S. Henne

Human Rights and Sovereignty

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Stephen McGlinchey

Too Strategic, Not Diplomatic: Why Turkish Universities Lack Research Centers on Classical Diplomacy

Since the 1960s, over 5,500 research centers have been established within Turkish universities. As of July 2025, only 573 have been closed, leaving...

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Ali Balcı

American Military Power and World Peace: A Strategic Paradox?

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Tewfik Hamel

The Crisis of Euro-Atlanticism in a Post-Liberal World

European Atlanticism is in crisis. For decades, it was the glue that combined Europe and the United States into a ‘security community’ – a group...

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Kevork Oskanian

Opinion – Inclusive Inclusion: Reimagining Belonging in Democratic Practice

Across Europe, the rise of exclusionary and anti-migrant politics is reshaping how migrants’ integration, belonging and citizenship should be...

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Azher Hameed Qamar

Review – Causal Inquiry in International Relations

Causal Inquiry in International RelationsBy Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi SuganamiOxford University Press, 2025 In Causal Inquiry in International...

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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

The Quieter Border: Reflections on Melilla

As part of a piece of research considering the way in which migration is governed across contested and ill-defined borders in the Mediterranean, a...

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Peter Clegg

Thinking Global Podcast – Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

On this week’s episode, Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) about studying religion and IR, the...

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Prof. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Speaks About Religion

Environment, Climate and International Relations

This is an excerpt from McGlinchey, Stephen. 2022. Foundations of International Relations (London: Bloomsbury). It is published here in tribute to the...

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Raul Pacheco-Vega

Critical Terrorism Dictionary: The State, State Terrorism, Extra-Judicial Killing, Rendition, and Targeted Killing

This is an excerpt from Critical Terrorism Studies: A Dictionary by Lee Jarvis and Alice Martini. Available in all good book stores, and via free...

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Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini