Legitimacy and Nationalism: China’s Motivations and the Dangers of Assumptions
Western foreign policies are, by way of the security paradox, generating the assertive China that western policy was intended to mitigate.
Business and Human Rights: Overcoming Old Paradigms, Pushing for New Frontiers
We must move from the state-centric outlook on human rights and the corporate-centric view on corporate responsibility, to a rightsholder-centered understanding of business and human rights.
Opinion – A Daunting Agenda for France’s EU Presidency
Often presented as a grand strategist with outsized, grandiose ambitions, Macron’s greatest challenge may be in just containing Europe rather than expanding its powers and capabilities.
Rethinking Critical IR: Towards a Plurilogue of Cosmologies
Critical IR began as a strongly emancipatory and normative project, however, it seems to have lost its initial focus and risks forgoing its emancipatory potential.
Rethinking Deterrence in Gray Zone Conflict
Ukraine stands as a contemporary case of a state trying to deter an adversary with robust force in the gray area between war and peace.
Chaos and Corruption in West Africa: Lessons from Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is falling apart as its politicians persuade their people that elections alone deliver democratic reform, while strangling them of genuine voter alternatives.
Opinion – Looking Behind the Delimitation Exercise in Jammu and Kashmir
The latest developments will enable Modi’s ruling BJP to form a government in the state with the support of any convenient party.
Debating the Legacies of James M. Buchanan and Neoliberalism
In recent years, neoliberal scholars have sought to defend the idea’s foundations and founders against academic attacks.
‘My Order, My Rules’: China and the American Rules-Based Order in Historical Perspective
Faced with a rising and revisionist China, the US has come to emphasise the maintenance of a rules-based order as a substitute for what it sees as American rules and order.
Opinion – Omicron and Navigating the New Normal with Covid-19
The course of the pandemic is now a policy choice that can either be prolonged by entrenched vaccine nationalism or shortened by a focus on the collective global goodwill.
