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Contrasting classical strategic theory with modern-day practices allows analysts to identify where hybrid warfare fits into the broader field of strategic studies. http://dlvr.it/SDRcrD

Tom Fletcher discusses his diplomatic career, British foreign policy, state-building, and how political polarisation, technology and the pandemic challenge and alter diplomacy. http://dlvr.it/SDPPfP

It was supposed to be a reality show with a twist. In a sun-drenched villa in Ibiza, six hot guys compete for a cash prize and for the love of the beautiful and mysterious Miriam. It’s meant to be her big break: the moment she becomes the superstar she was born to be. But this is the era of “cruel reality TV” and the show producers have a different goal: they want to surprise the men with the fact that Miriam is trans. A new six-episode investigative series from Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and The Apology Line, and from Novel, HARSH REALITY is the story about love, lies, reality TV and a woman before her time: Miriam Rivera. Written by Agnes Borinsky and hosted by Trace Lysette. Listen to Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera at wondery.fm/HR_Suspect See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pluriversal peace may play important roles in navigating inevitable conflicts in the shared pursuit of a world in which different ways of knowing and being can coexist. http://dlvr.it/SDJlJt

Ties Dams talks about the geopolitical narratives of China and the EU, disinformation, and the EU's relations with the Biden administration. http://dlvr.it/SD9Hgk

Socialist ideology has developed and gained pertinence in Indian political thought: Two major diverging schools with differentiated international outlook exist. http://dlvr.it/SD6FY3

The impediments to women's integration in the Indian military are rooted in gender biases and specific constructs of femininities and masculinities. http://dlvr.it/SD3nJ9

Sankaran Krishna discusses decolonising the university, post- and decolonial approaches to research, democracy in India, and cricket. http://dlvr.it/SCyWyp

For the Gulf states, there is a delicate balance between the region’s evolving geostrategic interests and a desire to appear as leaders of Muslim modernity. http://dlvr.it/SCwvFC

Respecting the sovereignty of Ethiopia, as confirmed in elections in June 2021, and developing a wider strategic view on Northeast Africa would help international actors deal with the situation better. http://dlvr.it/SCwvDl

That Irish-American diplomacy contributed to an elaborate network of child adoption casts a dark shadow over what is otherwise hailed as a formative period in the relationship between the two nations. http://dlvr.it/SCwv9C

At what point do we stop repeating not because the system gets fixed but because we stop trying to exist with it and within it? What happens then? http://dlvr.it/SCtTB5

If change is to come in Belarus, it requires interventions from external sources, the most likely of which is Russia – however unlikely that may appear. http://dlvr.it/SCtT7p

BRICS are an initiative that recognizes the huge differences between its members and is developed according to the resultant possibilities. http://dlvr.it/SClVXL

Shivshankar Menon talks about Sino-Indian relations, Indian foreign policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, and national boundaries in South Asia. http://dlvr.it/SCkNKm

Constructivism best reveals how France's bombing of a Greenpeace protest vessel in 1982 emboldened and solidified New Zealand to pass the Nuclear Free New Zealand Act. http://dlvr.it/SCjdMx

30 years post disarmament it is important for Kazakhstan to share its post-nuclear record so that the global community can lobby more effectively for the reduction of nuclear weapons elsewhere. http://dlvr.it/SChSPY

US support for the TPLF can only prolong the destruction, the bloodshed, and the suffering of Ethiopians while damaging the reputation of the US as a defender of democracy. http://dlvr.it/SCgstD

Jan Lüdert discusses normative practices of appropriateness, challenges to state sovereignty, decision-making in the United Nations, and pedagogies in international relations. http://dlvr.it/SCYlgC

The Olympic ideal of peaceful internationalism has always belonged in the realm of mythology. This ideal is dead and buried beneath the capitalist excesses of the IOC. http://dlvr.it/SCPmFg

Black and Southern feminists challenge us to consider the climate and environmental crisis as a crisis tied up in global histories of race, gender, and class as embedded in European empire. http://dlvr.it/SCPmCQ

This podcast from Foreign Policy should inspire listeners to think big, despite its largely abstract and Western centric approach to tackling global challenges in a post-pandemic world. http://dlvr.it/SCJLNb

Caroline de Gruyter talks about the relationship between Europe and the Hapsburg Empire, the EU's role in contemporary international politics, and the image of the EU in the media today. http://dlvr.it/SCJLM6

This essay tries to contest positivist scholars who pretend to produce general laws in IR; reality is entangled in a historical, political, and social context. http://dlvr.it/SCHf5p

When co-opted and deployed by state actors, humanitarianism is far from benign or apolitical: it has very real and dangerous effects on the lives and rights of migrants. http://dlvr.it/SCD396

During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself “The Telephone Pimp.” He ran the company “like General Motors” and got filthy rich doing it. But for the (mostly) women who answered the calls and delivered fantasies 24-7, it was a different story. The powerful stigma against sex work was always lurking just beneath the surface, until it threatened to tear apart the whole company. Hosted by Tina Horn (Why Are People Into That?), OPERATOR is an eight-part series about big ambitions, Shakespearean-level corporate backstabbing, men and women at the cutting edge of a technological revolution...and on the front lines of a sexual one. Listen to Operator at http://wondery.fm/OP_The_Apology_Line See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Regrettably, following this election day, as those before it, Uzbekistan remains one of the most repressive regimes in the world. http://dlvr.it/SC4M0l

Jason Dittmer discusses what the discipline of Geography can bring to IR, the relationship between popular culture and International Relations, and media as a vessel for nationalism. http://dlvr.it/SC3191

Premature awards to Henry Kissinger, Aung San Suu Kyi and Abiy Ahmed indicate that ‘God’ and the Nobel Committee don’t always keep the same standards. http://dlvr.it/SBvqVw

Samuel Ritholtz discusses queer kinship and the rights of refugee families, the impact of Covid-19 on trans and queer people and the role of queer IR in efforts to decolonise the discipline. http://dlvr.it/SBvqT8

Cybercrimes have increased worldwide. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to fight this through techniques informed by social, political, and computer sciences. http://dlvr.it/SBrhmY

Alongside its global significance for the ongoing effort to tackle climate change, COP26 also exposes the deep divisions which shape Scottish politics. http://dlvr.it/SBnR25

The future success of feminists groups resides in finding points of encounter to establish a more cohesive and effective dialogue with society. http://dlvr.it/SBj6Y9