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Interview – Hirotsugu Aida

E-International Relations • Mar 24 2024 • Features

Hirotsugu Aida discusses key issues impacting the American Presidential election, developments in Japanese politics, and the current state of US-Japan relations.

From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability

Chenglong Yin • Mar 23 2024 • Essays

Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.

Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?

Yesun Kim • Mar 22 2024 • Essays

The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric.

Interview – Darcy Leigh

E-International Relations • Mar 20 2024 • Features

Darcy Leigh elucidates the need to incorporate Queer Feminist perspectives in International Relations, and the dangers of a lack of nuance when evaluating free speech.

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The Stopping Power of Water: An Outdated Concept?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.

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