Articles

Opinion – Why China’s Ambitious Agenda Could Fail in 2024

Ashton Ng • Mar 11 2024 • Articles

The international community should actively seek opportunities to cooperate with China on shared priorities such as climate change and AI.

Political Foreclosure of Queer Liberation: Notes from Lebanon

Ali Kassem • Mar 11 2024 • Articles

Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified.

Russia and Its Four Wests

Andrei P. Tsygankov • Mar 9 2024 • Articles

Post-conflict Russia is unlikely to tilt pro-Western as the country’s main priorities include the survival and reframing of historically built national values.

Opinion – The International Community Should End the Israel-Hamas War

Melisse H Pinto • Mar 8 2024 • Articles

Palestinians and Israelis both have just causes which they cannot achieve by themselves due to the lack of trust.

Opinion – Keeping Trade in Perspective in an Election Year

Peter A. Coclanis • Mar 4 2024 • Articles

Trade talk in American political discourse often crowds out discussions of issues of equal or greater importance to economic strength and vitality.

Opinion – Lula’s Foreign Policy

Rafael R. Ioris • Mar 3 2024 • Articles

With multiple actors competing for hegemony, a country like Brazil may be able to bargain for even greater gains within the many ongoing disputes.

Opinion – The Future of Monarchies in Southeast Asia

Pavin Chachavalpongpun • Feb 29 2024 • Articles

The key to the survival of the monarchical institution rests on the way in which it acts and reacts to the rising desire of the people for democracy.

E.H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and International Law

Carmen Chas • Feb 27 2024 • Articles

The problems Carr and Morgenthau point to affect international law profoundly, in all its facets, and cannot be easily avoided.

Putin’s Illusions and Ukraine’s Reality: Myth vs Westward Integration

Putin’s vision of reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia is flawed and demonstrates his intransigence.

Opinion – Geoengineering Is Not Going to Deliver Itself

John Hickman • Feb 24 2024 • Articles

The United Nations COP summits are monuments to the impossibility of effective global governance based on international consensus.

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