The India-China Conflict in the Himalaya Should Break Open IR Theory
India and China are locked in a great power clash over the Himalaya. And yet, IR’s failure to go beyond a state-centric view of the story may likely lead to a catastrophic ending.
Assessing Securitization: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
As the Belt and Road Initiative unfolds, illusions underlying prevailing ideologies must be bridged by moving towards a global governance based on human values.
Contested Multilateralism as Credible Signalling: Why the AIIB Cooperates with the World Bank
Rising powers’ dissatisfaction with the institutional order has led them to set up new institutions which overlap with legacy institutions.
Opinion – Emerging Elements of a New US-China Cold War
While the old Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union was sustained by ideology, the conflict between the US and China will be maintained by economic nationalism.
Opinion – The Sino-Iran 25 Years Agreement: Why, and Why Now?
An agreement would not only enable Iran to avoid sanctions, but also to pose a serious challenge to US presence in the Middle East.
Opinion – The Chinese ‘New Left’ as Statist Apologists
Chinese New Left intellectuals downplay or ignore the loss of personal freedom and political liberties which could serve to whitewash both past and present state oppression and justify authoritarianism.
Re-Worlding China: Notorious Tianxia, Critical Relationality
China’s compliance as gift-giving is testing how ready the Western IR is to deny an intensively mutually constituted China as sheer stranger.
Opinion — Nigeria-China Relations: Sovereignty and Debt-Trap Diplomacy
The existential relations between Nigeria and China have been driven largely by an infrastructure-led investment strategy rooted in Nigeria’s development agenda.
Return to Nationality: The Sustainable Way to Gain International Recognition
If a rising power truly cares about its international stand and reputation, the optimal status seeking strategy in the long run is to invest in the overall well-being of its people.
Opinion – US-China Rivalry: Moving Closer to the Brink
We see a capitalist titan upon which the sun is setting and another whose moment appears to be at hand. To imagine that the US will allow a changing of the guard is ludicrous.
