Cold War Heritage in Sweden: Pastime Threats, Cosy Cavers and Gendered Nostalgia
Despite Sweden’s neutrality image, its Cold War period was characterized by a total defence strategy resulting in a deeply militarized society.
Opinion – Emerging Patterns of Trade in the Indo-Pacific
Amidst a paradigm shift from ‘Asia-Pacific’ to ‘Indo-Pacific’, a question that arises is how far are we from an order that might reshape the norms of international trade?
Travel Learning Clusters as Signature Pedagogies
Learning clusters can cultivate a deeper learning structure, imparting local know-how, and implicitly teach normative dimensions that are central to a sense of global citizenship.
Opinion – Myanmar, ASEAN and the Responsibility to Protect
It is time to listen to those who are crying out for protection and finally hold Myanmar’s generals accountable for their crimes.
The Emperor’s Dignity: A Candid Primer on Korean Reunification
North and South Korean leaders alike pine for reunification, yet the peaceful realization of this aspiration remains in doubt due to nuclear proliferation and human rights violations in the North.
Homocolonialism: Sexual Governance, Gender, Race and the Nation-State
The consequence of homocolonialism can obstruct the radical queer politics that have challenged the oppressive forces of the gendered and heterosexed nation-state.
Our Fragile Bodies: Economic Change, the Nation-State and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Although it is not feasible to assess the ultimate implications of COVID-19 currently, the pandemic has already revealed multiple long-term dynamics in our societies.
Broken Threads: Reshaping Multilateralism with COVID-19 under Way
Even though COVID-19 developments set states and economies further apart, a new push from the Biden administration can partially restore confidence in multilateral endeavours.
Understanding Syria’s Sectarian Wave
The first condition for de-sectarianization is the end to external competitive intervention in Syria’s conflict. Much will depend on what dominant national identity is constructed to replace (or restore) Arabism.
What English Language Teachers Can Teach IR about Pedagogy
At their core, English language teachers (and their IR active learning compatriots) believe that more people should be empowered to speak, and should help others find their voice.
