Articles

Migrantising Diplomacy

Hélène Thiollet • Feb 21 2025 • Articles

Migration diplomacy offers a framework for rethinking the tensions between control and sovereignty, cooperation and conflict, domination and resistance, and the link between domestic and foreign policy.

Threat Perception in International Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Leaders’ On-Going Experience

Eitan Oren • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

The danger framework is an invitation to incorporate psychology and linguistics into global politics.

The Long Destruction of Gaza: Toxic Saturation, Health Decimation, and Climate Loss and Damage

Carly A. Krakow • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

Gaza is exceptionally climate-vulnerable, building on years of health and environmental decimation under unlawful blockade.

Decolonising the IR Curriculum: Reflections from a Classroom

Ananya Sharma • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

Efforts to decolonise, though necessary, unfold within institutions that are shaped by the structures of privilege and inequality that decolonisation seeks to dismantle.

Tech Imperialism Reloaded: AI, Colonial Legacies, and the Global South

Salvador Santino Regilme • Feb 17 2025 • Articles

A future where AI is truly ethical, sustainable, and just is possible – only if we demand it.

Opinion – Luigi Mangione and the Politics of Violence Labelling

Adriana Marin • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

Prosecuting Mangione as a terrorist undermines his right to a fair trial and risks dismissing valid critiques of systemic healthcare inequities.

China’s Growing Role in Central Asia

Akanksha Meena • Feb 16 2025 • Articles

China’s growing trade, security, and political influence in Central Asia is a key testing ground for its broader geopolitical ambitions.

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions under the Shah and Ayatollahs: Strikingly Analogous but More Dangerous

Stephen McGlinchey and Jamsheed K. Choksy • Feb 14 2025 • Articles

Re-examining developments from before the Islamic Revolution can cast light upon recent events, despite differences between the two regimes.

Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy

Brianna Nicole Hernandez • Feb 14 2025 • Articles

Moving beyond extractivism is essential for transforming the way societies interact with the environment and ensuring sustainable development.

Sammarinese Nationalism: Between Myth and Modernity

Curtis Large • Feb 12 2025 • Articles

While San Marino’s inception is better explained by ethnosymbolist notions of historic continuity, the nation’s survival is more closely linked to the advent of modernity.

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