Articles

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.

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.

Rethinking the Role and Influence of U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy Think Tanks

Donald E. Abelson • Apr 17 2024 • Articles

Think tanks have no shortage of ideas, but for their ideas to take hold, policymakers and other leaders must have the capacity to listen.

The 2024 Article Award

E-International Relations • Apr 15 2024 • Articles

We invite PhD / doctoral students and early career academics to prepare articles outlining novel, or under appreciated, ideas that contribute to a better understanding of international relations – with a £1000 prize.

Opinion – Türkiye’s 2024 Local Elections Challenge President Erdoğan

Martin Duffy • Apr 12 2024 • Articles

Türkiye demonstrates a popular desire for transformation among its citizens that could redefine the nation’s longer-term political trajectory.

Is Resilience Thinking a Form of Eugenics?

Laura Jung • Apr 10 2024 • Articles

Instead of relying on individual grit, determination, and immune systems to survive our perilous present, we need to value and practice interdependence.

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