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Why Graduate Education in International Relations Could Benefit From Strategic Studies

Many political science programs with an IR subfield in the US do not have a single faculty member trained as a strategist. http://dlvr.it/T4tH77

Dissecting the Realist Argument for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Realism provides useful tools for dissecting state behaviour and interests, but it cannot fully account for Russia's diplomatic misfires or the moral and humanitarian dimensions of the conflict. http://dlvr.it/T4tH13

Reflections on the Troubles and the IRA in ‘The Secret Army’

This recently uncovered 1970s film sparks discussion about the capacity of such material to be commissioned and for it to be produced, but then to vanish. http://dlvr.it/T4tGqR

The Securitization of Chinese Soft Power

If soft power is a marker of globalization, then this force of globalization appears to be subordinated to the diverging and conflicting interests of nation-states in an anarchic system. http://dlvr.it/T4dWlG

Thinking Global Podcast – G. John Ikenberry (Part Two)

In the second part of our interview, G. John Ikenberry talks more about the Liberal International Order and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. http://dlvr.it/T4b3Xv

Interview – Hirotsugo Aida

Hirotsugo Aida discusses key issues impacting the American Presidential election, developments in Japanese politics, and the current state of US-Japan relations. http://dlvr.it/T4Xt3Z

From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability

Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives. http://dlvr.it/T4WSXq

Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?

The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric. http://dlvr.it/T4Rz3d

Interview – Darcy Leigh

Darcy Leigh elucidates the need to incorporate Queer Feminist perspectives in International Relations, and the dangers of a lack of nuance when evaluating free speech. http://dlvr.it/T4Mp26

Putin’s Russia: Violence, Power and Another 12 Years

Putin can remain in office until 2036, when he will turn 84, but he will preside over a state with fewer people and dwindling resources. http://dlvr.it/T4LFXz

The Racial Wealth Gap: Why America Should Discuss Reparations

A comprehensive approach to the legacy of slavery and discrimination includes reparations – but also policy changes and a shift toward fairness. http://dlvr.it/T4KtMh

Thinking Global Podcast – G. John Ikenberry

In the first of a two part series, G. John Ikenberry talks about the 'crisis' of the Liberal International Order and how the Russian invasion of Ukraine relates to this. http://dlvr.it/T4FMBB

Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order

We should analyse the ways in which elite cosmopolitanism came to propagate a closed reading of the world so that we can imagine cosmopolitanism anew. http://dlvr.it/T4DxVN

Interview – Jonathan Fulton

Jonathan Fulton details the relationship between China and the Gulf countries, taking into account factors ranging from economic prosperity to the changing oil market. http://dlvr.it/T4BTfx

Opinion – Priorities and Challenges for Italy’s G7 Presidency

Beyond the longer term importance of the Indo-Pacific, Italy’s immediate neighborhood, east and south, represents the focal point of its G7 presidency. http://dlvr.it/T48bTw

Opinion – Northern Ireland’s ‘Dirty War’

It would seem that we are entering a new chapter in which Northern Ireland’s grisly past will be further regurgitated, and probably without tangible outcomes. http://dlvr.it/T45xc5

Interview – Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

Carolina Sandoval discusses the future of democracy in Latin America, ways to protect it, and the dynamics of migration and human rights protection in the region. http://dlvr.it/T423GY

India’s Civilizational Imagination of Southeast Asia

Civilizational narratives are not the driving factors of India’s Southeast Asia policy. They also have been recurring but not dominant themes in policy making. http://dlvr.it/T3yJ3k

Opinion – Why China’s Ambitious Agenda Could Fail in 2024

The international community should actively seek opportunities to cooperate with China on shared priorities such as climate change and AI. http://dlvr.it/T3wSZr

Notes from Lebanon toward (Queer) Liberatory Alternatives

Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified. http://dlvr.it/T3wSH2

Thinking Global Podcast – Fawaz Gerges

Fawaz Gerges talks about Middle Eastern politics, political Islam, Pan-Arabism, Western colonialism, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, and how peace may transpire. http://dlvr.it/T3w2rl

Interview – Andreas Wimmer

Andreas Wimmer expands on the concept of nation-building as it developed through history, and how it is influenced today by contemporary developments like globalisation. http://dlvr.it/T3qv3t

Russia and Its Four Wests

Post-conflict Russia is unlikely to tilt pro-Western as the country’s main priorities include the survival and reframing of historically built national values. http://dlvr.it/T3qPzG

Opinion – The International Community Should End the Israel-Hamas War

Palestinians and Israelis both have just causes which they cannot achieve by themselves due to the lack of trust. http://dlvr.it/T3nKnJ

The Stopping Power of Water: An Outdated Concept?

The oceans do not pose nearly as large of an obstacle to a regional hegemon attempting to venture further outwards as they have in the past. http://dlvr.it/T3mNh7

Revisiting Cold War Rhetoric: Implications of North Korean Strategic Culture

Changes in exogenous conditions interact with North Korea's strategic culture of Juche, leading to variations in its ‘rational' security choices during the Cold War and now. http://dlvr.it/T3kTmV

Interview – Federico Merke

Federico Merke reflects on developments in Latin American foreign policy, and the potential impacts of Argentina's new Presidency, including on regional integration. http://dlvr.it/T3dTff

Review – The Language of Deception

Justin Hutchens explores the potential for artificial intelligence to be used for malicious ends, but focusses purely on the risks while ignoring the possible benefits. http://dlvr.it/T3dTMr

Thinking Global Podcast – Dimitrios Stroikos

Dimitrios Stroikos speaks on security in outer space, a 'new space race’, the militarization of space, sovereignty, conflict, alongside China and India’s weapons capabilities. http://dlvr.it/T3b1xX

Opinion – Keeping Trade in Perspective in an Election Year

Trade talk in American political discourse often crowds out discussions of issues of equal or greater importance to economic strength and vitality. http://dlvr.it/T3b1jf

Listen Now - MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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A Well-Intentioned Curse? Securitization, Climate Governance and Its Way Forward

The construction of climate change as a security threat confines the issue to exclusive state politics, undermining the effectiveness and legitimacy of global climate governance. http://dlvr.it/T3ZfQF

Opinion – Lula’s Foreign Policy

With multiple actors competing for hegemony, a country like Brazil may be able to bargain for even greater gains within the many ongoing disputes. http://dlvr.it/T3YMXT