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Interview – Jonathan Fulton

E-International Relations • Mar 17 2024 • Features

Jonathan Fulton details the relationship between China and the Gulf countries, taking into account factors ranging from economic prosperity to the changing oil market.

Interview – Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

E-International Relations • Mar 13 2024 • Features

Carolina Sandoval discusses the future of democracy in Latin America, ways to protect it, and the dynamics of migration and human rights protection in the region.

Interview – Andreas Wimmer

E-International Relations • Mar 9 2024 • Features

Andreas Wimmer expands on the concept of nation-building as it developed through history, and how it is influenced today by contemporary developments like globalisation.

The Stopping Power of Water: An Outdated Concept?

Pranav Kaginele • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

The oceans do not pose nearly as large of an obstacle to a regional hegemon attempting to venture further outwards as they have in the past.

Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture

Chenjun Wang • Mar 7 2024 • Essays

Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea’s strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational’ security choices during the Cold War and now.

Interview – Federico Merke

E-International Relations • Mar 5 2024 • Features

Federico Merke reflects on developments in Latin American foreign policy, and the potential impacts of Argentina’s new Presidency, including on regional integration.

A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward

Hannah Lentschig • Mar 4 2024 • Essays

The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance.

Interview – Massaab Al-Aloosy

E-International Relations • Feb 29 2024 • Features

Massaab Al-Aloosy reflects on the changing dynamics between Hezbollah, Hamas, and Israel in light of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the implications for Lebanon.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji

Sarah Furman • Feb 29 2024 • Essays

Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.

The Origins of Regionalism in the EU and ASEAN

Dominika Remžová • Feb 25 2024 • Essays

Both convergence and divergence in the extra- and intra-regional security dynamics shaped the emergence/deepening of the Cold War-era EU and ASEAN.

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