Articles

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.

What I Learned from Geolocating 1,000 Satellite Images

William Goodhind • Jul 16 2025 • Articles

Given satellite imagery’s primary role as a visual commodity, its use in popular media is often bereft of details helpful to the would-be researcher.

Military Governance in Post-War Sri Lanka: Revisiting the Logic of Downsizing

Maxwin Paul Rayen • Jul 16 2025 • Articles

Only when Sri Lanka’s leaders prioritise political reconciliation over perpetual securitisation will the logic of a leaner military truly take hold.

A Vindication for African Women in the Adaptation and Mitigation Policy-Making Process

Aya Kamil • Jul 14 2025 • Articles

Gender responsive measures must be substantial, a step away from performative virtue signaling, and not falling prey to pink and green washing.

Iran’s Quiet Recalibration: Post-Conflict Strategy Challenges Sanctions Logic

Bahram P. Kalviri • Jul 14 2025 • Articles

The central question is whether Iran can restore its economic and strategic standing post-conflict, or if the situation will exacerbate its global challenges.

Opinion – Israeli Genocides in Gaza

Mehmet Rakipoğlu • Jul 11 2025 • Articles

The Israeli genocide in Gaza is a multi-faceted system of violence that combines kinetic war with infrastructural destruction, digital isolation, humanitarian deception, and settler futurism.

Outsider Geopolitics: To Be, or Not to Be, in the Arctic

Eda Ayaydin and Andreas Raspotnik • Jul 10 2025 • Articles

Outsiderness in the Arctic is not a fixed condition but rather a relational and narrated identity for states such as Turkey and France, and institutions like the EU.

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