On a Train, Reading Sartre: What My Teenage Self Can Teach Me About International Relations

Lucian M. Ashworth • May 5 2024 • Articles

IR cannot be reduced to abstract structural arguments based on clear causal relationships.

Opinion – Gendered Digital Repression in Myanmar’s Online Dissent

Isabella Aung • May 4 2024 • Articles

The case of Myanmar highlights how autocrats are leveraging social media as a political tool to not only react to but also proactively deter women’s online activism.

Preventing Apocalyptic Futures: The Need for Alternatives to Development

Jodie Bradshaw • May 4 2024 • Essays

The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.

Interview – Marianne Hanson

E-International Relations • May 3 2024 • Features

Marianne Hanson elaborates on the concept of nuclearism, as well as the history and potential future steps towards nuclear disarmament and abolition.

Opinion – Labour’s Embrace of Realism: Progressive or Problematic?

Seán Molloy • May 2 2024 • Articles

The dilemmas facing UK foreign policy cannot be solved by the combination of a mechanistic realism and the profession of progressive aims.

Opinion – Justice for World War II Comfort Women in Taiwan’s Partisan Human Rights Calculus?

Thomas J. Ward • Apr 30 2024 • Articles

Calls for justice for Taiwanese victims have never gained the traction that they did in Korea and China.

Cross-Strait Authority Dynamics and Panda Diplomacy Gift-Giving Rituals

Mia Westfere • Apr 30 2024 • Essays

China had the calculations of authority and timing wrong in gifting pandas to Taiwan, turning Taiwanese sentiment against trust and goodwill toward the mainland.

Interview – Mario Artaza

E-International Relations • Apr 30 2024 • Features

Mario Artaza reflects on his expansive diplomatic career and foray into the private sector, and how Chilean foreign policy is adapting to the changing global order.

Thinking Global Podcast – Danny Dorling

E-International Relations • Apr 29 2024 • Features

Danny Dorling speaks human geography, Brexit, ‘Shattered Nation’, inequality, human progress, influenza, rising mortality rates and more.

Silver Lining in the Clouds: Will the US Geoengineer?

David Shipton • Apr 28 2024 • Articles

Calls for the US to use its resources to unilaterally embark upon a programme of solar geoengineering are likely to grow louder in coming decades.

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