Conflict as System Realignment: How Overloaded Systems Reset Themselves
Recasting conflict as a form of systemic realignment shifts the focus away from individual leaders, favouring of a deeper understanding of structural limits.
Interview – Michael Byers
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
International law’s future depends on its capacity to evolve while maintaining fundamental protective principles.
Review – The Return of Great Powers
Sciutto provides a thought-provoking examination of the interactions between great powers, despite a misleading title and omission of the role of smaller regional powers.
Opinion – How Global Politics Exploits Women’s Health
Attacks on women’s health are central to conflict, ranging from slow attrition of restrictions or barriers to accessing women’s health to direct bombing of maternity hospitals.
Interview – Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Myriam Dunn Cavelty discusses developments in the politics of cyber-security, including conflict and international norms, resilience, and the role of the private sector.
Interview – William Goodhind
William Goodhind talks about his website Contested Ground and the benefits and challenges of using satellite imagery to monitor the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Interview – Antoine Bousquet
Antoine Bousquet applies the ‘scientific way of warfare’ to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict and chaoplexic theory to the study of IR and conflict in particular.
Thinking Global Podcast – Dov Waxman
Dov Waxman speaks about the unfolding violence in Israel and Gaza, framing the phenomenon, the status of Palestinian refugees, causal factors, likely outcomes, and more.
Interview – Christiane Fröhlich
Christiane Fröhlich explores the relationship between climate change, human mobility and conflict, as well as the role governments and policymakers play.
