Opinion – Navigating Epistemic Injustices Between Secularism and Religion
To establish an all-encompassing and fair society, efforts must be directed towards appreciating and honoring various knowledge forms.
Opinion – The Expansion of BRICS: Challenges and Uncertainties
BRICS’s expansion reinforces their recognition and weight in international politics and challenges the group in terms of its cohesion and institutionalization.
Between Knowledge and Value: AI as a Technology of Dispossession
When we consider the political stakes of the mass diffusion of data-driven technologies, it becomes clear that fundamental struggles over knowledge lie ahead.
Strategic Intelligence Analysis and Foreign Policy Surprises in Kautilya’s Arthashastra
In the Kautilyan state intelligence analysis was structured to reflect its limitations and complemented by an expanding state power to tackle surprises.
A Defence of Macro-History in International Relations
We need alternative grand narratives that go beyond Eurocentrism critiques, and for that we still need macro-history.
China in the Pages of Americas Quarterly: Three Interpretations
Nuances among the narratives presented on China are found in the analysis of pieces published by American and Latin American scholars and elites in Americas Quarterly.
Against Mystification, or What Went Wrong with Critical IR
A project of demystification would reorient critical IR scholars away from the fetishization of oppressed groups as vectors for abstract theorizing.
Swiping for God: Islamizing Dating or Secularizing Islam?
Interactions on the social lab of the Muslim dating apps signals an ongoing negotiating process of what it means to be (a) Muslim, (b) secular, and (c) a secular Muslim.
Saudi Arabia’s Neom Project, the Howeitat Conflict and Tribe-State Relations
The case of the Howeitat’s division over the Neom project portends a decidedly weaker role for tribes and kinship groups in Mohammed bin Salman’s “new Saudi Arabia.”
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Counter-Orientalism to Neo-Orientalism
The USA can lend its support to pro-American regimes in the Middle East, and at the same time, encourage them to support semi-democratic institutions.
