Interview – Barry Buzan

E-International Relations • Mar 7 2025 • Features

Barry Buzan explores the evolution of IR, bridging history, theory, and interdisciplinary perspectives to rethink global order beyond Western-centric paradigms.

Review – The Twilight Struggle

Lake Preston-Self • Mar 7 2025 • Features

Brands offers sharp Cold War insights but leans to US centrism, overlooking Global South impacts and alternative perspectives into great-power rivalry.

Opinion – Reflections on the Global Sex Trade and the War in Ukraine

Patricia Sohn • Mar 7 2025 • Articles

Illegal market means crime. And criminality cannot be allowed to continue or we all suffer from it eventually.

7 October 2023 and the Battle over the New Silk Roads

Guy Laron • Mar 6 2025 • Articles

An overlooked facet of the Gaza war is how it intersects with the struggle to control trade corridors across Eurasia.

Opinion – ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, but with Women, Peace and Security?

Peixuan Xie • Mar 5 2025 • Articles

There is a disconnect between ASEAN’s Myanmar priorities and its gender strategy in peace and security governance.

US Foreign Policy at a Crossroads: Trump’s ‘Donroe’ Doctrine

Bruno S. Sergi and Mona Pearl • Mar 5 2025 • Articles

Trump’s America First approach, should it fail balance national interests and global diplomacy, may lead to diplomatic isolation for the US.

Opinion – Ukraine’s Future Is Not in Its Own Hands

Mazlum Özkan • Mar 3 2025 • Articles

With Trump’s return, the question is not whether Ukraine will survive, but under whose terms it will exist.

Opinion – The 2025 Munich Security Conference as a Defining Moment

Artur Simonyan • Mar 3 2025 • Articles

The 2025 Munich Security Conference solidified a decisive shift in international legal discourse, moving from the post-Cold War liberal order toward a framework shaped by realpolitik.

Opinion – Trump’s Reversal of Nixonian Logic

Craig R. Myers • Mar 2 2025 • Articles

The debate over the ending of the Ukraine war indicates that realpolitik has returned, and it’s not pleasant to watch.

Opinion – Dictatorships Are Unstable, Yet the International System Continues to Support Them

Nicolai Due-Gundersen • Mar 2 2025 • Articles

The international system prioritizes the stability of sovereign states over the rights of citizens of individual states.

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