Articles

Four Years On: An Appraisal of the Taliban’s Return

Grant Farr • Jul 27 2025 • Articles

The international community should expect to see Taliban rule as a fixture in Afghanistan’s near term future.

Strange Alliance: The Convergence of the Radical Left and Radical Islam

Sirvan Karimi • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

It is an illusion to assume that through its partnership with radical Islamists, the left in the West would bring about justice, peace, and democracy to the marginalized and oppressed.

Opinion – Multilateralism’s Collapse Under Trump and the Call for Global South Pluriverse

Shoutao Wu • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

If multilateral governance and international cooperation are to survive the onslaught of “America First” anti-globalism, they must be radically reconfigured

Too Strategic, Not Diplomatic: Why Turkish Universities Lack Research Centers on Classical Diplomacy

Ali Balcı • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

Turkish IR remains entangled in abstract theorizing, ideological narratives, and policy polemics, often at the expense of systematic, evidence-based scholarship.

The End of History and the Return to Geopolitics

Raphaël P.P. Dosson • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

Ideologies promoted by the Western order appear increasingly outpaced by ongoing systemic transformations.

Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance

Sefa Secen • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

Whether competitive multilateralism can evolve into a more inclusive, adaptive, and effective framework remains an open question.

Opinion – Gender, Ukraine and Imagining a Just, Sustainable Peace

Keshab Giri • Jul 20 2025 • Articles

Building sustainable and just peace rests on the inclusive recollection of painful events shaping the collective memory.

Opinion – ASEAN Centrality in Indian Discourse: Rhetoric or Realpolitik?

Biyon Sony Joseph • Jul 19 2025 • Articles

If India intends to project a credible and inclusive Indo-Pacific vision, it must prevent ASEAN centrality from becoming a hollow slogan.

How the Islamic Republic of Iran Can Be Transformed

Jamsheed K. Choksy and Carol E. B. Choksy • Jul 18 2025 • Articles

Letting the leadership in Tehran repeatedly rebuild its capabilities is a mistake – it needs to go, with its replacement decided by Iranians inside Iran.

US Bombing of Iran and the Transition to a New International Legal Order

Masahiro Matsumura • Jul 18 2025 • Articles

The choices made in response to the US action against Iran will determine whether power, not law, will define the contours of world politics in the 21st century.

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