Articles

Opinion – Opposition Strategy and Perspective in India’s 2024 Elections

Ajay Gudavarthy • May 28 2024 • Articles

The only way to break Modi’s dominance is to espouse a worldview that offers the electorate a different and contrasting way of evaluating the issues at hand.

Opinion – Moldova Must Balance Media Freedom and Disinformation

Stanislav Pavlovschi • May 26 2024 • Articles

There must be greater efforts to protect and educate the Moldovan public against disinformation, without violating freedom of speech.

Opinion – Why Unipolarity Is Not Over

Pål Røren • May 26 2024 • Articles

Scholars often talk about structural changes in the international system – but the world remains unipolar, with the United States at its center.

Indian Think Tanks and India’s Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific

Stuti Bhatnagar • May 20 2024 • Articles

Think tank research independence is often reliant on the support of formal institutions with amorphous lateral connections with government actors.

The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Logic of Narrative Coercion

Ngô Di Lân • May 19 2024 • Articles

The effective use of narrative coercion, as demonstrated by the SDI, could set the stage for a negotiated resolution in contemporary conflicts such as Ukraine.

Opinion – The EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products and its Malcontents

Tiago Torrin Itoh Viergever • May 19 2024 • Articles

Critiques of the EUDR have ranged from allegations of simple economic protectionism, to denouncing it as a form of green colonialism.

Putin’s Test for the West

Steve Wood • May 16 2024 • Articles

The world is more complicated than it was a decade ago when scholars ruminated on the capacity of International Relations Theory to understand or reflect what was happening in it.

Japan’s Role in Shaping the Security Landscape of Southeast and East Asia

Swati Arun • May 7 2024 • Articles

Japan has embarked upon a transformative journey that signifies a departure from its conventional pacifist stance.

Communities of Practice and the Social Ordering of World Politics

There is a need to understand better what shapes practical judgment, normative evaluation, and reflexive agency in meaning-negotiation processes in communities of practice.

On a Train, Reading Sartre: What My Teenage Self Can Teach Me About International Relations

Lucian M. Ashworth • May 5 2024 • Articles

IR cannot be reduced to abstract structural arguments based on clear causal relationships.

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