Opinion – Beyond Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey’s Syria Strategy

Anil Can Özgün • Jun 29 2025 • Articles

Stability in Syria and in the wider region depends on pragmatic engagement with Ankara, not outdated assumptions about empire.

Opinion – International Students Are a High-Return Investment for the United States

Mohammad Javad Mousavizadeh • Jun 29 2025 • Articles

The US, a global magnet for over a million international students annually, gains far more than academic prestige from this influx.

Israel, the Ultimate Realist

Bailey Schwab • Jun 29 2025 • Articles

Israeli strategic planners can see both the collapse of Iran and the waning of American military centrality as dual pathways to regional hegemony.

Interview – Olukayode Bakare

E-International Relations • Jun 28 2025 • Features

Olukayode Bakare analyzes coups, global rivalries, Nigeria-EU ties, and Africa’s democratic decline amid insecurity and shifting geopolitical dynamics.

Opinion – Rethinking the China Challenge

Richard W. Coughlin • Jun 27 2025 • Articles

The central task is not merely to outcompete China, but to reimagine power in a world of environmental limits and democratic erosion.

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK

Lee Jarvis and Tim Legrand • Jun 27 2025 • Articles

The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

Review – Russia’s Overlooked Invasion

Martin Larys • Jun 27 2025 • Features

Hauter convincingly recasts Donbas as a Russian invasion using digital forensics, which, while innovative, is a contested method due to its reliance on online sources.

Mimicking Democracy Promotion: How Parallel Observers Undermine OSCE Election Monitoring

Markus Pollak • Jun 25 2025 • Articles

Parallel election monitoring does not just compete with established missions – it mimics them, subtly rewriting the rules of legitimacy from within.

E-IR x BISA: Roland Bleiker on Emotions, Visuality and International Politics

E-International Relations • Jun 24 2025 • Features

Roland Bleiker, the Keynote Speaker of the BISA Conference 2025, speaks about emotions and visuality in international politics, the conference, advice to young scholars and more.

Interview – Emma Salisbury

E-International Relations • Jun 23 2025 • Features

Emma Salisbury discusses defence policy, naval strategy, and military innovation, analysing how shifting global dynamics shape UK security and AUKUS ties.

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