Opinion – Northern Ireland’s ‘Dirty War’
It would seem that we are entering a new chapter in which Northern Ireland’s grisly past will be further regurgitated, and probably without tangible outcomes.
India’s Civilizational Imagination of Southeast Asia
Civilizational narratives are not the driving factors of India’s Southeast Asia policy. They also have been recurring but not dominant themes in policy making.
Opinion – Why China’s Ambitious Agenda Could Fail in 2024
The international community should actively seek opportunities to cooperate with China on shared priorities such as climate change and AI.
Political Foreclosure of Queer Liberation: Notes from Lebanon
Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified.
Russia and Its Four Wests
Post-conflict Russia is unlikely to tilt pro-Western as the country’s main priorities include the survival and reframing of historically built national values.
Opinion – The International Community Should End the Israel-Hamas War
Palestinians and Israelis both have just causes which they cannot achieve by themselves due to the lack of trust.
Opinion – Keeping Trade in Perspective in an Election Year
Trade talk in American political discourse often crowds out discussions of issues of equal or greater importance to economic strength and vitality.
Opinion – Lula’s Foreign Policy
With multiple actors competing for hegemony, a country like Brazil may be able to bargain for even greater gains within the many ongoing disputes.
Opinion – The Future of Monarchies in Southeast Asia
The key to the survival of the monarchical institution rests on the way in which it acts and reacts to the rising desire of the people for democracy.
E.H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and International Law
The problems Carr and Morgenthau point to affect international law profoundly, in all its facets, and cannot be easily avoided.
