Articles

Legitimate Expectations about Stranded Fossil Fuel Reserves: Towards a Just Transition

Rutger Lazou • Feb 12 2023 • Articles

The energy transition is one of the most important challenges humanity has ever faced. However, like many other transitions, it brings adverse consequences for some agents.

Opinion – Moldova and Romania’s Unification is Not on the Horizon

Wilder Alejandro Sánchez • Feb 12 2023 • Articles

Despite pro-unification sentiments there is no official ongoing process – only occasional polls and statements by policymakers.

Opinion – Chat GPT and IR: Preliminary Reflections from within ‘Dark Academia’

Felix Mantz • Feb 10 2023 • Articles

While students to date seem mostly unaware of the technology and there are serious doubts over its effectiveness, ChatGPT now dominates numerous conversations across university spaces.

Can the Academy Still Debate ‘Colonialism’?

Alaric Searle • Feb 10 2023 • Articles

Disagreeing vehemently with another scholar’s opinions in the academy is one thing, death threats and calls for a scholar to be fired quite another.

Beyond Rawls: The Principle of Transgenerational Equity

Tiziana Andina • Feb 10 2023 • Articles

Climate change imposes a reflection on the importance of time in justice issues and underlines how transgenerationality is a crucial matter for justice.

Let’s Be Rational: A ‘Fair Share’ Approach to Carbon Emissions

Daniel Burkett • Feb 10 2023 • Articles

Emissions can be seen as a scarce communal resource, that, like other scarce resources such as a food, water or medical supplies, needs to be rationed.

Now Recruiting – IR Theory Editors

E-International Relations • Feb 9 2023 • Articles

E-International Relations is looking for volunteers who are passionate about IR theory of any variant, including related areas such as political theory and IPE.

Has Climate Change Ended Nature?

Elena Casetta • Feb 9 2023 • Articles

Considering humans as separate from the rest of nature risks an incomplete view of the current functioning of the biosphere and the misrepresentation of the human role.

From Food to Climate Justice: How Motivational Barriers Impact Distributive Justice Strategies for Change

Samantha Noll • Feb 9 2023 • Articles

Local food movements have leveraged normative arguments to motivate individual and collective action.

Gender and Climate Change

Vera Tripodi • Feb 8 2023 • Articles

Gender discrimination hinders considerably a person’s access to the means and resources they need to face and minimise the effects of climate change on a global level.

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