Opinion – Türkiye’s 2024 Local Elections Challenge President Erdoğan
Türkiye demonstrates a popular desire for transformation among its citizens that could redefine the nation’s longer-term political trajectory.
Is Resilience Thinking a Form of Eugenics?
Instead of relying on individual grit, determination, and immune systems to survive our perilous present, we need to value and practice interdependence.
The Fourth Year of the Milk Tea Alliance
Although the memory of the Milk Tea Alliance may have faded, it was only four years ago that it sparked an internet ‘war’ between Thai and Chinese netizens over the status of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Opinion – Deciphering China’s Uncomfortable Sanctions Discourses
Although China is acutely aware of the power it is acquiring through a formalized sanctions regime, it is proceeding with caution.
Opinion – Administrative Reparations for Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine
The broad range of CRSV victims in Ukraine demonstrates the diversity and complexity of their reparative needs.
Why Graduate Education in International Relations Could Benefit From Strategic Studies
Many political science programs with an IR subfield in the US do not have a single faculty member trained as a strategist.
Dissecting the Realist Argument for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Realism provides useful tools for dissecting state behaviour and interests, but it cannot fully account for Russia’s diplomatic misfires or the moral and humanitarian dimensions of the conflict.
Reflections on the Troubles and the IRA in ‘The Secret Army’
This recently uncovered 1970s film sparks discussion about the capacity of such material to be commissioned and for it to be produced, but then to vanish.
Opinion – Momentum in Transnistria’s Geopolitics?
Moldovan politicians should play the geopolitical game cautiously to avoid any unexpected outcomes of the upcoming referendum.
The Securitization of Chinese Soft Power
If soft power is a marker of globalization, then this force of globalization appears to be subordinated to the diverging and conflicting interests of nation-states in an anarchic system.
