The Silicon Conquistadors: Humanity and Digital Colonialism in the Age of AI

Francisco Lobo • Nov 12 2025 • Articles

We don’t have to wait for AI to develop self-awareness and (perhaps more unlikely) ethical self-control to have a serious conversation about the dangers of this new trend.

Editorial Assistant Internship (Voluntary/Remote)

E-International Relations • Nov 11 2025 • Articles

We seek students, at any level, to help us do some research into Masters programs around the world.

Opinion – A Mitigation Amendment to Keep Paris Alive?

Jacopo Bencini • Nov 11 2025 • Articles

Strategic climate partnerships, or coalitions, must lead the way by sheltering the Paris architecture while inspiring national policies or multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Opinion – Strategic Voids in Global Environmental Governance 

J. Miguel Escobedo De la Torre • Nov 11 2025 • Articles

Strategic voids in environmental policy need not remain traps; with transparency and commitment, they can become points of collaboration.

Why We Fight: The Rules-Based International Order

Francisco Lobo • Nov 11 2025 • Articles

There is a need to make sense of the post-World War 2 rules and institutions that stand both as a legacy of colonialism and at the same time a vehicle to overcome it.

America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited

Francisco Lobo • Nov 11 2025 • Articles

The most powerful country in the world is dismantling the order it helped create and rekindling old ideas about spheres of influence and regional imperialism.

Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC

Raisha Jesmin Rafa • Nov 10 2025 • Essays

Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.

Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action

Ninon de Buchet • Nov 10 2025 • Essays

Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.

Existential Battles: Culture Wars and Real Wars

Francisco Lobo • Nov 10 2025 • Articles

Since political violence, in particular war, is a quintessential instrument of colonialism, the praeter-colonial mind would be remiss not to inquire into its nature and changing character.

The Haves and the Have-Nots: The West, the Global South, and the Rest

Francisco Lobo • Nov 9 2025 • Articles

Perhaps it is time to retire the ‘West versus the rest’ framework in a similar way that some have advocated to drop the ‘post-Soviet’ label.

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