New Directions in Climate Politics Research

Defne Günay • Feb 26 2025 • Articles

Future research should contribute to a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of climate politics, addressing both structural inequalities and the evolving nature of climate discourse.

Opinion – The World Before and After Munich

Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay • Feb 25 2025 • Articles

As a new international system takes shape, influenced by emerging actors from the Global South, the distribution of global power is bound to continue to shift away from the Western core.

Review – The Flats

Martin Duffy • Feb 25 2025 • Features

This haunting docu-drama explores Belfast’s New Lodge through trauma, memory, and resilience, blending archival footage with staged scenes for a powerful impact.

Cash for Migration Control: The EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership

Christiaan Janssen • Feb 24 2025 • Essays

By externalizing migration control to a regime with documented human rights violations, the EU deliberately evades democratic oversight and international responsibility.

Thinking Global Podcast – Aylin Matlé

E-International Relations • Feb 24 2025 • Features

Aylin Matlé speaks about The 2025 German elections, German foreign policy, NATO, Trump, and US-Germany relations. This is part of our 2025 German election special series.

Migrantising Diplomacy

Hélène Thiollet • Feb 21 2025 • Articles

Migration diplomacy offers a framework for rethinking the tensions between control and sovereignty, cooperation and conflict, domination and resistance, and the link between domestic and foreign policy.

Review – World Statehood

Bob Jessop • Feb 20 2025 • Features

Patomäki’s book is a rich, critical take on world statehood, blending history, philosophy, and governance, however its length and lack of coherence weaken its impact.

Threat Perception in International Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Leaders’ On-Going Experience

Eitan Oren • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

The danger framework is an invitation to incorporate psychology and linguistics into global politics.

The Long Destruction of Gaza: Toxic Saturation, Health Decimation, and Climate Loss and Damage

Carly A. Krakow • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

Gaza is exceptionally climate-vulnerable, building on years of health and environmental decimation under unlawful blockade.

Decolonising the IR Curriculum: Reflections from a Classroom

Ananya Sharma • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

Efforts to decolonise, though necessary, unfold within institutions that are shaped by the structures of privilege and inequality that decolonisation seeks to dismantle.