Articles

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.

The Fourth Year of the Milk Tea Alliance

Although the memory of the Milk Tea Alliance may have faded, it was only four years ago that it sparked an internet ‘war’ between Thai and Chinese netizens over the status of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Opinion – Deciphering China’s Uncomfortable Sanctions Discourses

Rishika Chauhan and Sarah Tzinieris • Apr 7 2024 • Articles

Although China is acutely aware of the power it is acquiring through a formalized sanctions regime, it is proceeding with caution.

Opinion – Administrative Reparations for Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine

Sylvain Keller • Apr 7 2024 • Articles

The broad range of CRSV victims in Ukraine demonstrates the diversity and complexity of their reparative needs.

Why Graduate Education in International Relations Could Benefit From Strategic Studies

Michael H. Creswell • Mar 31 2024 • Articles

Many political science programs with an IR subfield in the US do not have a single faculty member trained as a strategist.

Dissecting the Realist Argument for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Princewilliams Odera Oguejiofor • Mar 31 2024 • Articles

Realism provides useful tools for dissecting state behaviour and interests, but it cannot fully account for Russia’s diplomatic misfires or the moral and humanitarian dimensions of the conflict.

Reflections on the Troubles and the IRA in ‘The Secret Army’

Martin Duffy • Mar 31 2024 • Articles

This recently uncovered 1970s film sparks discussion about the capacity of such material to be commissioned and for it to be produced, but then to vanish.

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