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Geopolitics for EU lawyers
Most people who are interested in EU external action would recognise that the foreign policy machinery of the EU – the organisation’s institutional and legal set up – has a problem: it does not reflect the geopolitical…
The E-International Relations 2023 Reader Survey
The E-International Relations 2023 Reader Survey…
Opinion – Can the US and UK Further R2P’s Evolution?
In July 2022, the U.S. State Department released the US Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent, and Respond to Atrocities, the U.S. Government’s first articulated national strategy on Atrocity Prevention. In October, the UK…
Opinion – The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Africa
Over the past 35 years, Africa is the only continent where the absolute number of people who are chronically undernourished has gone up. To put this into perspective, nearly 20% of Africans, representing approximately 238…
Opinion – Energy Security: Moldova’s Quest for New Suppliers
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has conducted various international visits and hosted leaders from multiple states in recent months. Due to the war in Ukraine and tense relations with Moscow, Chisinau is focused on reducing…
Review – Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States
Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States: Problems and ProspectsEdited by Bernard F W LooWorld Scientific Publishing, 2022
I am penning this review over six months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Recently, Russian…
How Do Travel Vlogs Contribute to GDP’s Dominance in World Politics?
The dominant measure of a country’s development in world politics is the annual total value of production expressed as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which originates from 20th Century American capitalist thinking (Lepenies,…
Transnational Corporations, State Capacity and Development in Nigeria
In the past few decades, transnational corporations (TNCs) have become significant political and economic actors in the international political economy due to advances in globalisation, leading to growth in their power and…
How Qualitative Fieldwork Can Help Understand Civil Wars
Exactly how well do we understand civil wars? How do we know that concepts and theories that we establish fit with the realities on the ground? Our positionality as researchers may create perception gaps between how we…
Finding Your Separated Cousin: Similarities and Global IR
The idea that existing international relations (IR) theories are overly dependent on European experiences, disregarding the history of polities in other regions, is increasingly gaining support among IR scholars today. To…
