Interview – Shazelina Z. Abidin
Shazelina Z. Abidin discusses international organisations, and her diplomatic career, as part of a series of interviews with the contributing authors of the textbook ‘Foundations of International Relations’.
Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence
The challenges to Greenland’s autobiographical self, in terms of its colonial past, destabilises perceptions of reality and prevent the possibility of agency.
Interview – Cas Mudde
Cas Mudde explores the rise of the far right and its impacts in different parts of the world, and elucidates the political importance of the Israeli settler movement.
Review – Never-Ending War on Terror
This book focusses on the American military and cultural response to 9/11, and questions whether the campaign will ever have an end in sight.
Beyond Post-Truth: I-War and the Desire to be an Ethical All-American
The truth is divided and incomplete because the subject is barred from knowing the complete truth of their own subjectivity. By understanding this, we can begin to build a different democracy.
Religion in International Relations and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
It is helpful to consider the influence of a quasi-religious worldview with regard to the conflict and the role of Putin.
Review – The Misinformation Age
This book is a useful account of how to identify factors driving the spread of false beliefs in society, but it remains to be seen whether the warnings come too late.
Post-Truth and Post- Democracy: The Dark Side of the Democratic Planet
Post-truth tends to be a dissimulation of lies and the relations between truth and post-truth are not ambiguous.
US Foreign Wars, Mass Marketing, and the Development of Post-Truth Politics
Reality-shaping repetition of talking points, taglines and catchphrases can be traced back to the propaganda campaign of the Wilson administration in 1917.
Opinion – The Tenuous Links Between ‘Food’ and ‘Migration’ Crises
It is naïve to believe that the first thing that crosses a hungry person’s mind is to leave their own country.
Τrolling IR About Trolling in International Affairs
Despite trolling instances of resistance to power structures, the state-centric embracement or hijacking of trolling can hardly be missed, along with the ‘disrupt the opponent/rival’ mode.
Platforms of Post-Truth: Outlines of a Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Regulation must guarantee the factual basis of debate and the broader horizon of shared experiences – without which facts and democracy lose their meaning.
Religious Foundations of Indian Territorial Imagination
Despite the diversity of identities within India, the existence of the Indian nation within the boundaries of British-controlled territories of India was unquestionable.
Opinion – Speaking Truth to Power in Kashmir
The act of public mourning carries with it the power to unsettle and offend mainstream narratives by bringing to the fore the truth about disappearances in Kashmir.
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