Digital Colonialism Is the New Scramble for Africa

Titilope Ajeboriogbon • Jan 12 2026 • Articles

Africans are in a position to create alternative solutions, establish a regulatory framework, and pursue the development of genuine digital sovereignty.

From French Guiana to the Falklands: Could US Influence Reshape Europe’s Overseas Territories?

Peter Clegg • Jan 12 2026 • Articles

Washington’s actions in the coming years may reshape the political and economic landscape of the Western hemisphere.

Opinion – External Funding Dependence in African Union Conflict Resolution

Jude Cocodia • Jan 6 2026 • Articles

As long as the AU remains deficient in funding its activities and has to rely on the West, and now China, it will be obligated to further the interests of its benefactors.

Opinion – Venezuela and the Cost of Abandoning South American Collective Defense

Guilherme Frizzera • Jan 5 2026 • Articles

The internationalization of the Venezuelan crisis is neither inevitable nor simply the result of domestic authoritarian drift

Opinion – Trump’s Spectacle of Domination in Venezuela

Richard W. Coughlin • Jan 5 2026 • Articles

If drug enforcement were the operative concern in Trump’s calculus, Venezuela would barely register.

The Diffuse Unilateralism of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention

Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama • Jan 4 2026 • Articles

This sustained character of Trump’s foreign policy decisions constitute a reversal of multilateral expectations after the end of the Cold War.

Neo-Ottomanism as Civilizational Nationalism: Turkey’s Quest for Identity

M. Hakan Yavuz • Jan 2 2026 • Articles

Neo-Ottomanism represents a civilizational state nationalism of restorative nostalgia, seeking the restoration of imperial status in a hierarchical world.

Interview – Astha Chadha

E-International Relations • Jan 2 2026 • Features

Astha Chadha calls for a post-Western Global IR that embraces religion, hauntology, and non-Western cosmologies to rethink power, justice, and security.

Contested Horizons in Post-Ba’ath Syria

Yunus Abakay • Dec 31 2025 • Articles

Syrian politics today looks like a frontline of totalising projects competing to own the future in the name of the nation, the revolution, or the country.

Ulster’s Political Hauntology and the Forces Research Unit

Martin Duffy • Dec 30 2025 • Articles

The emerging academic sub-discipline of political hauntology explores how the past, especially lost or failed futures, can haunt the present.

Please Consider Donating

Before you download your free e-book, please consider donating to support open access publishing.

E-IR is an independent non-profit publisher run by an all volunteer team. Your donations allow us to invest in new open access titles and pay our bandwidth bills to ensure we keep our existing titles free to view. Any amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Many thanks!

Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below.