Articles

Indian Think Tanks and India’s Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific

Stuti Bhatnagar • May 20 2024 • Articles

Think tank research independence is often reliant on the support of formal institutions with amorphous lateral connections with government actors.

The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Logic of Narrative Coercion

Ngô Di Lân • May 19 2024 • Articles

The effective use of narrative coercion, as demonstrated by the SDI, could set the stage for a negotiated resolution in contemporary conflicts such as Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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