Security

Interview – Jaehan Park

E-International Relations • Dec 3 2025 • Features

Jaehan Park reflects on how military service reshaped his worldview and inspired a career exploring geopolitics, East Asian security, and great-power rivalry.

Interview – Raluca Csernatoni

E-International Relations • Nov 6 2025 • Features

Raluca Csernatoni calls for rethinking IR through a technopolitical lens, exhorting scholars to treat emerging tech as central to power, agency, and global order.

Unlocking Human Capacity for Equitable Peace in an Anarchic and Hierarchical World

Nayef Al-Rodhan • Sep 7 2025 • Articles

The future will not be written solely by generals and diplomats, it will depend on whether we can build a world that channels our passions, fears, and hopes.

Interview – Olukayode Bakare

E-International Relations • Jun 28 2025 • Features

Olukayode Bakare analyzes coups, global rivalries, Nigeria-EU ties, and Africa’s democratic decline amid insecurity and shifting geopolitical dynamics.

Opinion – Sliding the Security Zip Line: An Igniting of the India–Pakistan Crisis?

Ido Gadi Raz • May 26 2025 • Articles

The Kashmir attack has bound both Pakistan and India towards the same precarious trajectory, with potential escalation looming.

Interview – Anders Wivel

E-International Relations • Apr 14 2025 • Features

Anders Wivel explores how small states navigate global politics by linking theory and practice, challenging disciplinary silos, and shaping international order.

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis: Forced Displacement on the ‘Mind-map’ of Antagonistic Security

Laura Zuber • Apr 7 2025 • Articles

Scholarship engaging the raciality of capitalism, and feminist approaches, are well-equipped to understand antagonistic notions and practices of security.

Opinion – The Potential of Strategic Ambiguity for South Korean Security

Julian McBride • Mar 28 2025 • Articles

South Korea should open up its long taboo over weapons exports to Ukraine as North Korea becomes more intertwined with the war.

Review – Confronting China

Timothy R. Heath • Mar 1 2025 • Features

Confronting China offers sharp policy insights but leans too heavily on military competition, overlooking key economic and political factors in US-China rivalry.

Threat Perception in International Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Leaders’ On-Going Experience

Eitan Oren • Feb 18 2025 • Articles

The danger framework is an invitation to incorporate psychology and linguistics into global politics.

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