Opinion – The EU’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products and its Malcontents

Tiago Torrin Itoh Viergever • May 19 2024 • Articles

Critiques of the EUDR have ranged from allegations of simple economic protectionism, to denouncing it as a form of green colonialism.

The Anomaly of Democracy: Why Securitization Theory Fails to Explain January 6th

Caroline Grace Barnett • May 17 2024 • Essays

Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.

Putin’s Test for the West

Steve Wood • May 16 2024 • Articles

The world is more complicated than it was a decade ago when scholars ruminated on the capacity of International Relations Theory to understand or reflect what was happening in it.

Interview – Miguel Alberto Gomez

E-International Relations • May 14 2024 • Features

Miguel Gomez elaborates on the rising prominence of cybersecurity in the international political sphere and the psychological impacts of and reactions to cyber-attacks.

Review – On the Scale of the World

Zizhu Wang • May 14 2024 • Features

Younis innovatively outlines how Black political identity has been oppressed by everyday white political discourse, but could go further to challenge a Eurocentric focus.

Thinking Global Podcast – Ajay Gudavarthy

E-International Relations • May 14 2024 • Features

Ajay Gudavarthy speaks about the Congress party of India, its history and impact, the ongoing 2024 elections in India, and much more.

Interview – Antoine Bousquet

E-International Relations • May 9 2024 • Features

Antoine Bousquet applies the ‘scientific way of warfare’ to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict and chaoplexic theory to the study of IR and conflict in particular.

Japan’s Role in Shaping the Security Landscape of Southeast and East Asia

Swati Arun • May 7 2024 • Articles

Japan has embarked upon a transformative journey that signifies a departure from its conventional pacifist stance.

Thinking Global Podcast – Dean Vuletic

E-International Relations • May 6 2024 • Features

Dean Vuletic speaks about the Eurovision Song Contest, its history, its relationship to international political discourse, and more.

Communities of Practice and the Social Ordering of World Politics

There is a need to understand better what shapes practical judgment, normative evaluation, and reflexive agency in meaning-negotiation processes in communities of practice.

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