The Challenges of Epistemic Communities in Shaping Policy in the Age of Post-Truth
By offering an exclusive expert-policy nexus, epistemic communities overlook the significance of communicating knowledge and fostering public debate on policy issues.
Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence
The challenges to Greenland’s autobiographical self, in terms of its colonial past, destabilises perceptions of reality and prevent the possibility of agency.
Beyond Post-Truth: I-War and the Desire to be an Ethical All-American
The truth is divided and incomplete because the subject is barred from knowing the complete truth of their own subjectivity. By understanding this, we can begin to build a different democracy.
Religion in International Relations and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
It is helpful to consider the influence of a quasi-religious worldview with regard to the conflict and the role of Putin.
Post-Truth and Post- Democracy: The Dark Side of the Democratic Planet
Post-truth tends to be a dissimulation of lies and the relations between truth and post-truth are not ambiguous.
US Foreign Wars, Mass Marketing, and the Development of Post-Truth Politics
Reality-shaping repetition of talking points, taglines and catchphrases can be traced back to the propaganda campaign of the Wilson administration in 1917.
Opinion – The Tenuous Links Between ‘Food’ and ‘Migration’ Crises
It is naïve to believe that the first thing that crosses a hungry person’s mind is to leave their own country.
Τrolling IR About Trolling in International Affairs
Despite trolling instances of resistance to power structures, the state-centric embracement or hijacking of trolling can hardly be missed, along with the ‘disrupt the opponent/rival’ mode.
Platforms of Post-Truth: Outlines of a Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Regulation must guarantee the factual basis of debate and the broader horizon of shared experiences – without which facts and democracy lose their meaning.
Opinion – Speaking Truth to Power in Kashmir
The act of public mourning carries with it the power to unsettle and offend mainstream narratives by bringing to the fore the truth about disappearances in Kashmir.
