Strategic or Symbolic? Reassessing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Eighty Years On

Markus Schindler • Aug 6 2025 • Articles

Eighty years on, the available information suggest that the US leadership overestimated the strategic impact of the nuclear bombings on Japan.

Interview – Joyeeta Gupta

E-International Relations • Aug 4 2025 • Features

Joyeeta Gupta calls for justice-centered climate governance, urging bold reforms to protect the planet’s most vulnerable and rethink how we value progress.

Revisiting and Resharing the Idea of an Integrated Justice Approach to Land Reform

Cynthia Embido Bejeno • Aug 4 2025 • Articles

Integrating economic, cultural, and political dimensions in research, policy, and practice can be more effective in advancing land and gender justice.

Hezbollah’s Hemispheric Backup: Strategic Redundancy in South America

Jeffery A. Tobin • Aug 3 2025 • Articles

Hezbollah’s South American infrastructure blends into markets, moves through paperwork, and grows in spaces where governance is uneven.

China Advances and the US Retreats in Latin America and the Caribbean

Hyeran Jo and Nathalie Méndez • Aug 1 2025 • Articles

Latin America, and Colombia in particular, finds itself at the center of a geopolitical tug-of-war with China’s calculated investments and the US’s shifting policies.

Decentralization or Distraction? Iran’s Post-War Gamble

Babek Chalabi • Aug 1 2025 • Articles

Recent developments have raised questions about whether Iran is moving toward a version of federalism or simply seeking administrative devolution.

Interview – Michael Byers

E-International Relations • Jul 31 2025 • Features

Michael Byers explains how space, climate change, and conflict intersect and why global cooperation and context matter more than ever in international law.

Opinion – International Law’s Adaptive Resilience: Navigating Contemporary Global Conflicts

Bhavya Johari • Jul 30 2025 • Articles

International law’s future depends on its capacity to evolve while maintaining fundamental protective principles.

Opinion – Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and International Relations

Tusharika Deka • Jul 30 2025 • Articles

AI is political and its future will be shaped by who participates and who ‘gets’ to participate in the conversation.

Opinion – A Precarious Peace in Türkiye?

Ayla Göl • Jul 29 2025 • Articles

The timing is ripe for Türkiye to grasp the moment to close a painful chapter in its history before grievances between the Kurds and the Turks hurt deeper.

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