Emmanuel Macron has recently returned to classical realism’s insistence that survival depends on the capacity to threaten harm.

Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran, border resistance and more.

Venezuela’s takeover publicly signals that material power is insufficient without normative control over legality.

Medical humanitarianism presents itself as neutral by framing suffering as universal and solvable through technical medical intervention, separate from politics.

Julianne Liebenguth explores environmental security, abolitionist politics, and how crisis-driven notions of security shape power, inequality, and possibilities for care.