Opinion – Why Russia’s 2025 Intervision Matters
Introduced in its current modern iteration as a direct counter to Eurovision, Intervision is a new(-ish) play in global cultural diplomacy by Russia.
Securing Ukraine with Proper Financing
Ukraine must avoid a death-debt spiral at a time of competing requirements and low appetites for “forever wars” among its allies.
Yanis Varoufakis’s Challenge to Mainstream Economics
Varoufakis advocates a more inclusive structure that addresses not only economic efficiency but also social justice in policy formulation.
Opinion – How China Is Keeping a British Political Prisoner in Hong Kong
Jimmy Lai’s persecution stems from Deng Xiaoping’s distorted view of sovereignty and his rewriting of Hong Kong’s history.
Opinion – IOR First: Why India’s Indo-Pacific Ambitions Depend on Regional Primacy
Once consolidated its IOR position, India will emerge as a shaping force in the Indo-Pacific regional order and governance.
Opinion – From Linkage to East Asia: From the 1970s to Today’s US-Japan-ROK Strategy
If the US, Japan, and South Korea could adapt the linkage policy to the realities of the 21st century, it could build a more stable Indo-Pacific framework.
Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.
Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.
Geostrategic Dissonance and Hyperrealism: A Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Contradiction in International Politics
What happens when a state not only applies realism, but takes it further, setting a new standard?
Is Patriotism Just Obedience? Hong Kong Under the National Security Law
Historical precedents, symbolic instruments and contemporary strategies converge to shape Hongkongers’ understanding of sovereignty, identity, and patriotism.
Interview – Evren Balta
Evren Balta explores Turkey’s hybrid foreign policy, the entanglement of domestic and global politics amidst high-profile conflicts, and calls for a plural vision of IR.
From Treaty Ports to BRI Courts: China’s Legal Statecraft, Then and Now
China’s BRI-era ‘one-stop’ dispute-resolution model, centred on the China International Commercial Court (CICC) reverses treaty-port extraterritoriality by turning legal pluralism from an imposed constraint into invited jurisdiction through China-led venues.
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