The return of civil political discourse
Last night’s Vice Presidential debate was a textbook lesson in how to agree to disagree civilly....
6+1 Questions about “The Fossil-Fueled Roots of Climate Inaction in Authoritarian Regimes”
What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? What is the name...
Migration as the Outcome of States’ War against Nations
While immigration has not only continued but also increased in recent years, the strict stances of...
What to Do About Clausewitz: Saving Strategic Studies From Itself
“A specter is haunting strategic studies—the specter of peace.” These bizarre words are from...
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The Contradictions of “Progressive Realism,” and How to Overcome Them
Labour MP David...
Israel protesters may be missing their best opportunity to help Gaza
Even though the...
6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism”
Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
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Jamie Frueh
Associate Provost and W. Harold Row Professor of Global Politics Jamie Frueh, of Bridgewater...
Bloody Carnival
A lot of ink has been spilled and bytes spent on the reflections over Trump’s failed...
The Frontier Politics of Horizon
In the recent Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop, Lachlan McNamee makes a...
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And All That Jezebel
Ah, the avalanche of racism and misogyny that came after the Kamala Harris announcement. The...
Was the Trump shooting terrorism?
The implications of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend remain unclear....
The Munich Agreement, but Negotiated by Oswald Mosley
When I was but a lad, it was still quite common for foreign-policy hawks to invoke “Munich” as an...
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Susan Sell: The Power of Mentorship and Example
This is the fifth in our series of remembrances on the late Susan Sell. There was a terrific...
On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR
THe short-term contributions of the Special Issue have been worthwhile, but there remains a continued concern and challenge that with greater attention paid to race and imperialism in IR, these issues will become co-opted into the game of academic production, sanitised as intellectual curiosities, instead of being treated as matters of life and death that need to be opposed practically and not just on paper.
6 + 1 Questions about “Compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”
1. What is the name of the article and what are its coordinates? Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Angie...
6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism”
Does Whataboutism work? A new article has answers.
Subfields & Subjects
The Contradictions of “Progressive Realism,” and How to Overcome Them
Labour MP David Lammy has a new piece in Foreign Affairs called, “The Case for Progressive...
Leaders’ preambles and world ordering in national security strategy documents: the (un)surprising global strategic ambitions of the US and UK
126 countries now publish a national security strategy or defense document, and 45 of these feature
a leaders’ preambles. How these talk about the world, or not, is surprisingly revealing of historical
global strategic hierarchies.
Ordering Power: Hegemonic Architecture in a Multipolar World?
Who, if anyone, rules the world? Answering a question like that requires grappling with both the...
How do we get people to care about migrants?
Earlier this week, a boat carrying migrants fleeing Afghanistan sank in the English Channel,...
Eurovision suggests both sides on Israel-Palestine need to invest in some public diplomacy
Last year I was on a sabbatical in Edinburgh, and my family and I watched Eurovision for the first...
On the politics of decolonization theory and practice
International institutional policy, shaped by a globally entrenched explanatory framework of development and underdevelopment, perpetuates the suppression of knowledge production aimed at challenging social, economic, and political injustices by elites across the global South
Driving while looking in the rearview mirror
The takeaway from last night’s State of the Union address is that Biden’s language...
When is it ok to express concern about persecuted Christians?
The ongoing war in Gaza has stretched on for over two months after the horrific October 7 attack...
A reckoning with the traditional diplomatic community
Intra-elite, state-centric society is a strategic front, and ought to be defended and put to use in the continued development of a global and decolonial turn in IR.
Patriarchy and the Cult of Coercion: Pale, Male, and Stale Will Make Deterrence Fail
Carol Cohn is the G.O.A.T. Back in 1987, she wrote what is still the best gendered take on the...
Germany: Climate Disappointment of the Year
With a symbolically successful COP28 and substantively significant investments in clean energy...
The WHO Recommends Avoiding Border Closures During Pandemics. Why Did People Want Them Closed During COVID-19 Outbreaks?
Despite existing international regulations advising countries to coordinate and minimize border...