Articles

Borders as Violence: From Territorial Lines to Distributed Practices

Manish Jung Pulami and Saroj Kumar Aryal • Sep 18 2025 • Articles

Recognizing borders as distributed violence allows scholars to reimagine sovereignty, governance, and order in ways that move beyond the Westphalian template.

Opinion – Britain’s Role in Syria’s Stabilisation

Hamit Ekinci • Sep 15 2025 • Articles

Britain must deepen its engagement with capable local actors in Syria if it hopes to pursue an effective and forward-looking Syria policy.

Opinion – Why China Parades Power as Peace

Enrico Gloria • Sep 14 2025 • Articles

Xi Jinping is selling a multipolar order with China as an active player, while Washington offers little that inspires confidence.

Is the Cuban Regime on the Brink of Collapse?

Luis Martínez-Fernández • Sep 14 2025 • Articles

Adding Trump’s return to a complex geopolitical and regional picture, there is evidence that Cuba has lost many of the means that have kept the regime afloat.

Assad’s Syria and the Second Partitionist Age That Never Was

Alex Cruikshanks • Sep 14 2025 • Articles

People can move across continents quicker and cheaper than ever, so seeking entirely new borders based on snapshot demographic pictures has become more futile.

Opinion – Reclaiming Just Transition from Neocolonial Energy Agendas

Shoutao Wu • Sep 11 2025 • Articles

The green transition can worsen inequality through displacement, gentrification, and unemployment.

Climate, Peace, and Partnership: Insights from Germany

Benjamin Pohl and Janani Vivekananda • Sep 11 2025 • Articles

Integrating peacebuilding into climate action is not just a moral imperative but a strategic necessity.

Opinion – Northern Ireland as an Environmental Sacrifice Zone

Louise Taylor • Sep 9 2025 • Articles

Environmental reviews and action plans are clearly not fit to remedy present environmental problems as they are chronically underfunded.

What is Decolonial Praxis?

Decolonial Praxis is finding a common cause to fight together against the oppressors, and it is acting from solidarity with other people and groups.

The Mexicali Committee in Solidarity with Palestine as a Case of Decolonial Praxis

Solidarity movements between oppressed groups are crucial for putting pressure to governments and for demanding an immediate stop to the Palestinian genocide.

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