The world is more complicated than it was a decade ago when scholars ruminated on the capacity of International Relations Theory to understand or reflect what was happening in it.
Miguel Gomez elaborates on the rising prominence of cybersecurity in the international political sphere and the psychological impacts of and reactions to cyber-attacks.
Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
Younis innovatively outlines how Black political identity has been oppressed by everyday white political discourse, but could go further to challenge a Eurocentric focus.
Ajay Gudavarthy speaks about the Congress party of India, its history and impact, the ongoing 2024 elections in India, and much more.
Antoine Bousquet applies the ‘scientific way of warfare’ to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict and chaoplexic theory to the study of IR and conflict in particular.
Japan has embarked upon a transformative journey that signifies a departure from its conventional pacifist stance.
Dean Vuletic speaks about the Eurovision Song Contest, its history, its relationship to international political discourse, and more.
There is a need to understand better what shapes practical judgment, normative evaluation, and reflexive agency in meaning-negotiation processes in communities of practice.
IR cannot be reduced to abstract structural arguments based on clear causal relationships.
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.
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
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