Decolonising the IR Curriculum: Reflections from a Classroom

Ananya Sharma • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

Efforts to decolonise, though necessary, unfold within institutions that are shaped by the structures of privilege and inequality that decolonisation seeks to dismantle.

Australia’s Strategic Culture and Evolving Threats in the Indo-Pacific

Vaibhav Pramod Karajgikar • Feb 18 2025 • Essays

Australia’s strategic culture is ill-suited for long-term national security due to overreliance on the US and lack of industrial capacity to support defence capabilities.

Tech Imperialism Reloaded: AI, Colonial Legacies, and the Global South

Salvador Santino Regilme • Feb 17 2025 • Articles

A future where AI is truly ethical, sustainable, and just is possible – only if we demand it.

Opinion – Luigi Mangione and the Politics of Violence Labelling

Adriana Marin • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

Prosecuting Mangione as a terrorist undermines his right to a fair trial and risks dismissing valid critiques of systemic healthcare inequities.

China’s Growing Role in Central Asia

Akanksha Meena • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

China’s growing trade, security, and political influence in Central Asia is a key testing ground for its broader geopolitical ambitions.

Review – 20 Days in Mariupol

Martin Duffy • Feb 15 2025 • Features

A gripping, evidence-based documentary on the Mariupol siege, blending brutal war footage with objective analysis, with a focus primarily on the Ukrainian side.

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions under the Shah and Ayatollahs: Strikingly Analogous but More Dangerous

Stephen McGlinchey and Jamsheed K. Choksy • Feb 14 2025 • Articles

Re-examining developments from before the Islamic Revolution can cast light upon recent events, despite differences between the two regimes.

Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy

Brianna Nicole Hernandez • Feb 14 2025 • Articles

Moving beyond extractivism is essential for transforming the way societies interact with the environment and ensuring sustainable development.

Sammarinese Nationalism: Between Myth and Modernity

Curtis Large • Feb 12 2025 • Articles

While San Marino’s inception is better explained by ethnosymbolist notions of historic continuity, the nation’s survival is more closely linked to the advent of modernity.

Opinion – The Geopolitics of Moldova’s Wine Industry

Wilder Alejandro Sánchez • Feb 12 2025 • Articles

Moldova’s decoupling from dependence on Russia for wine trade ultimately made the wine industry more resilient by the time the war in Ukraine commenced.

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