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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