Articles

Opinion – A Daunting Agenda for France’s EU Presidency

Alexander Brotman • Jan 9 2022 • Articles

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

Hartmut Behr and Giorgio Shani • Jan 5 2022 • Articles

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

Martin Duffy • Jan 3 2022 • Articles

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

Maqsood Hussain • Dec 31 2021 • Articles

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

Craig R. Myers • Dec 28 2021 • Articles

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

William M. Zolinger Fujii • Dec 28 2021 • Articles

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

Alexander Brotman • Dec 24 2021 • Articles

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.

Mustafa Shokay and the Soviet Propaganda Machine

Wilder Alejandro Sánchez • Dec 24 2021 • Articles

The restoration of Shokay’s name and legacy should serve as an encouragement to further research the role of Central Asian individuals during Soviet times and to help separate fact from fiction.

Indigenous Conflict Victims and the Growing Tent City in Bogotá

Christoph Sponsel • Dec 18 2021 • Articles

Structural change in rural Colombia and meaningful government action are required to sustainably alter the security and socio-economic situation of indigenous communities.

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