Opinion – Why Armenia and Azerbaijan Diverge on the Zangezur Corridor
While both Azerbaijan and Armenia share long-term regional goals, their differing views on creating a transportation corridor impede progress towards a peace agreement.
Opinion – A Geopolitically Sustainable Green Energy Agenda
2023 was a year in which the climate change agenda brought nations together, but again proved unable to shake off deeper competing interests.
IR’s Great Derangement: Climate Change Coverage in IR Journals 2017–2021
When treated with requisite seriousness, the effects of climate change and the need to address it supersede many traditional preoccupations of the field.
Conspiracy Theory and International Relations
The opaque nature of international politics exerts limits on the available evidence, yet this cannot mean abandoning the task of judging between better and worse claims.
The Trojan War in Crimea
Russia’s Crimea policy is about history, religion, literature, myth, and imperial as well as military glory – which is a long-winded way of saying it’s about identity.
Opinion – The Broader Significance of the ICJ’s Ruling on Genocide in Gaza
The ICJ’s ruling challenges the narrative of the conflict presented by Western powers and the core premises of the US-designed rules-based international order.
China’s Silence on the Centennial of Lenin’s Death
In China, Lenin – the political figure who created the ill-fated Soviet Union – will not enjoy the same approval as Marx, Mao or even Xi.
Dialectics in Mādhyamaka Buddhism and What It Can Teach International Relations
The dialectical approach of Mādhyamaka undercuts theories with a nominalist, atomised ontological foundation, providing insights into our global social life.
Call For a Buddhism-Inspired Asian Regional Compact on Internal Displacement
It is possible to appeal to the humanitarian norms rooted in religious identity without exacerbating religious nationalism or discrimination.
On the Pedagogy of a Truly International Relations
Rather than be mutually intolerant, the diversification agenda makes IR’s traditional content more interesting.
