Features

Interview – Evren Balta

E-International Relations • Sep 30 2025 • Features

Evren Balta explores Turkey’s hybrid foreign policy, the entanglement of domestic and global politics amidst high-profile conflicts, and calls for a plural vision of IR.

Review – Cooperative Complexity

Henning Schmidtke • Sep 27 2025 • Features

Clark reframes global lending as inter-organizational politics, showing how rivalry boosts performance — though broader borrower strategies merit deeper inquiry.

Thinking Global Podcast – Harris Mylonas

E-International Relations • Sep 27 2025 • Features

Harris Mylonas speaks about nations, nationalism, nation-building and the politics of diaspora policy.

Review – The Wokisme Controversy

Alain Policar • Sep 12 2025 • Features

Campagne’s study offers a rich account of France’s wokisme debate through a Franco-American lens, though deeper analysis of anti-woke discourse meaning is lacking.

Interview – Daniele Benzi

E-International Relations • Sep 7 2025 • Features

Daniele Benzi calls for rethinking Latin American regionalism through global history and structural critique, urging scholars to unthink inherited paradigms.

Interview – Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

E-International Relations • Sep 4 2025 • Features

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam calls for globally rooted, justice-driven AI ethics to resist algorithmic bias and reclaim human agency in an increasingly coded world.

Review – Causal Inquiry in International Relations

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson • Sep 1 2025 • Features

Humphreys and Suganami offer a rich, thoughtful critique of causal inquiry in IR, though their approach may underplay how abstract theories shape concrete explanations.

Review – The Once and Future World Order

Bo Yuan Chang • Aug 23 2025 • Features

Acharya reframes the world order as multicivilizational and co-created, though his global claims would benefit from clearer links between ideas and practice.

Thinking Global Podcast – Anthony F. Lang Jr.

E-International Relations • Aug 18 2025 • Features

Anthony F. Lang Jr. speaks about universal values, International Political Theory (IPT), normativity, ethics, Grotius and more.

Review – Quantum International Relations

Chengxin Pan • Aug 18 2025 • Features

Der Derian and Wendt offer bold insights into world politics, but the book’s complexity may limit broader impact beyond its already-converted scholarly circle.

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