When treated with requisite seriousness, the effects of climate change and the need to address it supersede many traditional preoccupations of the field.
The opaque nature of international politics exerts limits on the available evidence, yet this cannot mean abandoning the task of judging between better and worse claims.
Russia’s Crimea policy is about history, religion, literature, myth, and imperial as well as military glory – which is a long-winded way of saying it’s about identity.
The ICJ’s ruling challenges the narrative of the conflict presented by Western powers and the core premises of the US-designed rules-based international order.
In China, Lenin – the political figure who created the ill-fated Soviet Union – will not enjoy the same approval as Marx, Mao or even Xi.
The dialectical approach of Mādhyamaka undercuts theories with a nominalist, atomised ontological foundation, providing insights into our global social life.
It is possible to appeal to the humanitarian norms rooted in religious identity without exacerbating religious nationalism or discrimination.
Rather than be mutually intolerant, the diversification agenda makes IR’s traditional content more interesting.
To call outer space an “empty frontier” imposes a territorial conceptualization of property onto that space which begins the process of colonialism.
Climate change is shaping the energy policy decisions leaders make which offers a force large enough to deter any back-pedalling to an oil-based society.
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