Annexation and Hybrid Warfare in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine will remain difficult to solve because Russia’s goals are contradictory to Ukraine’s and the West’s norms.
Europe’s Barbwire Fences: Reflections on Reporting the Refugee Crisis in Greece
The failure of states to protect refugees amounts to their failure to discontinue the violence created by borders. This is where a no borders politics comes as an answer.
Towards a New Cold War?
Russia’s position requires that the West acquiesce to a Russian ‘sphere of influence’. In the EU, sensitivities about a ‘new Yalta’ will make that hard to accept.
Welcome (Back) To the Ivory Tower
Ivory Tower is for IR instructors to create dialogue, provide support, and further the enterprise of IR through advice and reflection on teaching, research, and service.
Eurocentrism and the Construction of the ‘Non-West’
The rearticulations of spatio-temporal hierarchies that temporarily situate Europe ahead of everyone enables the reproduction of Eurocentrism as a system of knowledge.
Megachurches and the Living Dead: Intersections of Religion & Politics in Korea
The prospect of political change in the North coincides with the potential for religious change in the South, producing a complex and fascinating set of scenarios.
The Soviet Origins of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Understanding the long-term continuity underlying Russian hybrid operations is important as it shows that 2014 was not an improvised response to a temporary challenge.
The Causes and Consequences of Russia’s Actions towards Ukraine
Scholars writing about the Russia-Ukraine conflict face a choice in perspectives that is likely to lead them to being criticised no matter what they do.
The Survival of the US–Japan, US–ROK Alliance under a Potential Peace Treaty
With potential talks of a peace treaty going on among the US, South Korea, North Korea and China, the future of the US–Japan, US–ROK alliance seems to be at stake.
Ukraine and the Russian Challenge to the European Order
Russia’s actions in 2014 were not just a response specific events such as NATO enlargement, EU policy, democracy promotion or revolution in Ukraine.
