Existential Battles: Culture Wars and Real Wars
Since political violence, in particular war, is a quintessential instrument of colonialism, the praeter-colonial mind would be remiss not to inquire into its nature and changing character.
The Haves and the Have-Nots: The West, the Global South, and the Rest
Perhaps it is time to retire the ‘West versus the rest’ framework in a similar way that some have advocated to drop the ‘post-Soviet’ label.
Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC
Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.
Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action
Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.
Trilateral Lessons from the 1980s for Today’s Indo-Pacific Challenges
The yardstick of success is an alliance structure between the US, Japan, and South Korea that functions even when friendship falters.
Opinion – Changing Frontiers of Sino-US Technological Competition
The future contest will not only centre on who can build the most powerful chips, but on who can set the rules governing their use and exchange.
The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America
America, the continent, has always been a place to welcome those who decided that staying put was not going to cut it.
Interview – Raluca Csernatoni
Raluca Csernatoni calls for rethinking IR through a technopolitical lens, exhorting scholars to treat emerging tech as central to power, agency, and global order.
Opinion – Federalism: The Best Path for Syria’s Future
If Syrians can build a federal state with strong constitutional guarantees they would create a model for coexistence in the Middle East.
Opinion – Will NATO Collapse? Gamers Rejoice
Battlefield 6’s plot may not be realistic now, but we can speculate that mercenary organizations over the next decade may come to comparable power status as nation-states.
To Be Feared Is to Be Free: Macron’s Realist Turn
By bringing Machiavelli and Schmitt back into the language of a liberal democracy, Macron announced more than a rhetorical shift.
The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach
Global International Society will survive, though it will be neither under the aegis of the hegemonic Liberal International Order nor a bipolar Cold War-type order.
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