The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States
The NSS 2025 shares an unrealistic belief that simply being the world’s predominant in power will inevitably deliver positive outcomes for the United States.
Opinion – The Emerging Phenomena of ‘Fake’ International Election Observation
As representative democracy faces increasing scrutiny, election observation plays a pivotal role in restoring voter trust.
Opinion – Anchored Autonomy: Europe’s Strategy for a Post-Complacent Age
Donald Trump’s transactional return and America’s accelerated pivot toward the Indo-Pacific have ended Europe’s post-Cold War strategic complacency.
Interview – Raluca Csernatoni
Raluca Csernatoni calls for rethinking IR through a technopolitical lens, exhorting scholars to treat emerging tech as central to power, agency, and global order.
Opinion – The Calibrated Brussels-Effect: Regulatory Power and Investment Risks
CEPA signals Brussels may adopt a calibrated approach: maintaining strict regulatory rules, but showing flexibility on governance and procedural clauses when necessary.
Opinion – Europe’s Risky Quest for Technological Autonomy
The global competition over technology has spurred a frenzy of policy initiatives in the pursuit of the European Union’s strategic autonomy and digital sovereignty.
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.
Opinion – Europe’s Far Right and the Normalisation of Injustice in Palestine
The seemingly contradictory alliance between Israel and far-right parties becomes coherent when considering shared ideological commitments and strategic interests.
Opinion – How Europe’s Global Gateway Competes With China’s BRI
Europe’s answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Gateway, will never match Beijing’s firepower – and it does not need to.
EU Membership for Russia: A Brief History of a Fantastical Idea
The concept of Russia joining the EU, while always unlikely, was not always unthinkable.
