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Interview – Melissa Conley Tyler

E-International Relations • May 24 2025 • Features

Melissa Conley Tyler discusses Australia’s evolving diplomacy, highlighting the role of middle powers and minilateralism in a shifting global landscape.

Interview – Selina Ho

E-International Relations • May 21 2025 • Features

Selina Ho examines China’s rise, water and rail politics, as well as ASEAN’s resilience — urging a nuanced, cross-disciplinary approach to hegemony and public goods.

Interview – Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez

E-International Relations • May 10 2025 • Features

Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez explores Caribbean IR through climate resilience, regional integration, and Cuba’s cooperative diplomacy beyond ideological divides.

Interview – Samuel Jardine

E-International Relations • May 5 2025 • Features

Samuel Jardine explores how frontier regions like space and the Arctic are shaping global competition — and why understanding diverse motives is key to global governance.

The Politics of Endurance: Sanctions Resilience in Cuba and Iran

Ninon de Buchet • Apr 29 2025 • Essays

Regimes in Cuba and Iran have sustained sanctions resilience through economic reforms, including neoliberal policies, and ideologically driven nationalist discourses of resistance.

Interview – Jorge Heine

E-International Relations • Apr 14 2025 • Features

Retired ambassador Jorge Heine sees Global IR and active non-alignment as key for the Global South to break free from outdated paradigms and shape a multipolar world.

Interview – Anders Wivel

E-International Relations • Apr 14 2025 • Features

Anders Wivel explores how small states navigate global politics by linking theory and practice, challenging disciplinary silos, and shaping international order.

Interview – David Galbreath

E-International Relations • Apr 1 2025 • Features

David Galbreath examines the impact of technology on warfare, the future of NATO, European defense challenges, and the shifting focus of U.S. strategic priorities.

Interview – Amitav Acharya

E-International Relations • Mar 22 2025 • Features

Acharya challenges Eurocentric IR by tracing the roots of world order to diverse civilisations, urging a shift toward a truly global, inclusive, and multiplex perspective.

Interview – Gerardo L. Munck

E-International Relations • Mar 15 2025 • Features

Gerardo Munck explores global political history, democracy-capitalism tensions, and Latin America’s role in shaping political thought beyond Eurocentric theories.

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