China

Opinion – Weakened US Relations Is Pushing Europe Towards China

Ali Mammadov • Apr 6 2025 • Articles

Overdependence on any single actor will leave Europe vulnerable to external pressures.

Interview – David Galbreath

E-International Relations • Apr 1 2025 • Features

David Galbreath examines the impact of technology on warfare, the future of NATO, European defense challenges, and the shifting focus of U.S. strategic priorities.

Opinion – The Colonial Roots of the Ongoing Uyghur Genocide

Salih Hudayar • Mar 28 2025 • Articles

Only by reframing this as a crisis of occupation, colonization, and national survival can the path to justice become clear.

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 – 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.

Review – Confronting China

Timothy R. Heath • Mar 1 2025 • Features

Confronting China offers sharp policy insights but leans too heavily on military competition, overlooking key economic and political factors in US-China rivalry.

China’s Growing Role in Central Asia

Akanksha Meena • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

China’s growing trade, security, and political influence in Central Asia is a key testing ground for its broader geopolitical ambitions.

Opinion – The Mixed Results of Made in China 2025

Farhad Gojayev • Feb 9 2025 • Articles

China has faced significant challenges from the United States and the European Union, who have responded with measures to counter China’s technological ascendancy.

India-China Rivalry and its Long Shadow Over the BRICS

Arvind Mohan • Nov 2 2024 • Articles

While New Delhi and Beijing will remain invested in BRICS, their mutual antipathy will ensure that the gulf between the bloc’s soaring rhetoric and concrete action will remain vast.

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