Articles

Opinion – Momentum in Transnistria’s Geopolitics?

Lucia Leontiev • Mar 26 2024 • Articles

Moldovan politicians should play the geopolitical game cautiously to avoid any unexpected outcomes of the upcoming referendum.

The Securitization of Chinese Soft Power

Alfredo Zeli • Mar 26 2024 • Articles

If soft power is a marker of globalization, then this force of globalization appears to be subordinated to the diverging and conflicting interests of nation-states in an anarchic system.

Opinion – The West Should Drop the ‘Hybrid Warfare’ Discourse on Ukraine

Tarik Solmaz • Mar 25 2024 • Articles

Labelling Russia’s contemporary actions in Ukraine as hybrid warfare fails to accurately depict the evolving nature of the ongoing conflict.

Putin’s Russia: Violence, Power and Another 12 Years

David R. Marples • Mar 20 2024 • Articles

Putin can remain in office until 2036, when he will turn 84, but he will preside over a state with fewer people and dwindling resources.

The Racial Wealth Gap: Why America Should Discuss Reparations

Cliff (Ubba) Kodero • Mar 20 2024 • Articles

A comprehensive approach to the legacy of slavery and discrimination includes reparations – but also policy changes and a shift toward fairness.

Reclaiming Surzhyk: Ukraine’s Linguistic Decolonisation

The appropriation of surzhyk testifies to the tendency towards elevation of Ukraine’s linguistic varieties and acceptance of variation, which goes against the colonial idealisation of strictly traced norms.

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

Kira Huju • Mar 18 2024 • Articles

We should analyse the ways in which elite cosmopolitanism came to propagate a closed reading of the world so that we can imagine cosmopolitanism anew.

Opinion – Priorities and Challenges for Italy’s G7 Presidency

Dario Cristiani • Mar 16 2024 • Articles

Beyond the longer term importance of the Indo-Pacific, Italy’s immediate neighborhood, east and south, represents the focal point of its G7 presidency.

Opinion – Northern Ireland’s ‘Dirty War’

Martin Duffy • Mar 15 2024 • Articles

It would seem that we are entering a new chapter in which Northern Ireland’s grisly past will be further regurgitated, and probably without tangible outcomes.

India’s Civilizational Imagination of Southeast Asia

Udayan Das • Mar 12 2024 • Articles

Civilizational narratives are not the driving factors of India’s Southeast Asia policy. They also have been recurring but not dominant themes in policy making.

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