Elections as Spectacle: Myanmar’s Manufactured Legitimacy
The 2025 election is another chapter in a long-running performance designed to mask the persistence of military domination in Myanmar.
The Desert of Dune to the University Classroom: Pop-culture and Political Theory
Bringing together researchers and students to watch a pop culture artefact and discuss its implications for IR is a very accessible way to enter into expert conversations.
Opinion – The Mearsheimer Logic Underlying Trump’s National Security Strategy
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy has adopted Mearsheimer’s aims for US to achieve predominance in the West and prevent great powers to dominate other regions.
Opinion – Okinawa’s Struggle with Ongoing US Military Presence
National sentiment in Japan can diverge sharply over military instalments, and local resistance remains a source of uncertainty for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s plans.
Opinion – Evidence that Georgia Deployed WW1-Era Chemicals against Demonstrators
Weapons experts consulted by the BBC suggested that an obsolete, more potent agent like camite was used, alongside CS-gas, in Tbilisi.
Interview – Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda reflects on a new nuclear age marked by great-power rivalry, rising proliferation pressures, and fading arms control, urging realism about deterrence in a riskier world.
The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States
The NSS 2025 shares an unrealistic belief that simply being the world’s predominant in power will inevitably deliver positive outcomes for the United States.
The State of China’s Soft Power in 2025
China’s gains are hard to deny, but five years are not enough to define a new paradigm of attraction in international relations.
The Hedley Bull – Ali Mazrui Dialogue as a Metaphor for IR
The intellectual relationship between Mazrui and Bull remains one of the most instructive cross-civilizational dialogues in the history of IR.
Opinion – Alliance Shock Revisited: What 1968-69 Means for 2025
If Tokyo and Seoul fail to deepen strategic integration, they risk repeating the illusion that regional security can exclusively rely on a single external great power.
Opinion – China’s Expanding Security Footprint in Africa
The trajectory of China as a long-term player in Africa’s security will be shaped by both its global ambitions and the continent’s own agency.
The Security Council Resolutions on Western Sahara and Gaza: Is Decolonisation in Danger?
Sovereign equality and the illegality of conquest may well give way to an order in which occupation becomes indistinguishable from conquest.
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