Review – Technology and Agency in International Relations
This collection successfully bridges the gap between IR, Science and Technology Studies and New Materialism, highlighting topical examples and policy debates.
Interview – Amal Abu-Bakare
Amal Abu-Bakare discusses Black History Month, equality and racism in IR and her PhD research on counterterrorism as a racialised discourse.
Review – The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative
This ambitious and incisive book details the changing international order and offers a succinct analysis of the state of the world today, which is now in complete flux.
Interview – Lev Topor
Lev Topor talks about his work on cyberspace and racism, cybersecurity and the pandemic, and the key instigators of cyber interventions.
Interview – Xymena Kurowska
Xymena Kurowska discusses her interdisciplinary research, Russia’s contestation of liberal norms, its cyber diplomacy, and interpretive approaches to EU foreign policy.
Interview – Ian Manners
Professor Ian Manners discusses the EU as a global gender actor, European integration, and he explains planetary politics in relation to the EU.
Review – War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
Bowen provides a masterful contribution through his presentation of a Clausewitzian spacepower theory.
Interview – Miguel Dhenin
Miguel Dhenin talks about the military’s role in public services and politics in Brazil, as well as the ‘strategic environment’ in the Brazilian context.
Review – Authoritarian Africa: Repression, resistance, and the power of ideas
The book explores why authoritarian regimes have persisted in Africa and investigates the extent to which European colonialists can be blamed for Africa’s problems.
Interview – Gwilym David Blunt
Gwilym David Blunt discusses global poverty as a crime against humanity, the right to resist, Black Lives Matter, and how COVID-19 has shaped resistance.
