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Interview – David Galbreath

E-International Relations • Apr 1 2025 • Features

David Galbreath examines the impact of technology on warfare, the future of NATO, European defense challenges, and the shifting focus of U.S. strategic priorities.

Interview – Amitav Acharya

E-International Relations • Mar 22 2025 • Features

Acharya challenges Eurocentric IR by tracing the roots of world order to diverse civilisations, urging a shift toward a truly global, inclusive, and multiplex perspective.

Interview – Gerardo L. Munck

E-International Relations • Mar 15 2025 • Features

Gerardo Munck explores global political history, democracy-capitalism tensions, and Latin America’s role in shaping political thought beyond Eurocentric theories.

Interview – Barry Buzan

E-International Relations • Mar 7 2025 • Features

Barry Buzan explores the evolution of IR, bridging history, theory, and interdisciplinary perspectives to rethink global order beyond Western-centric paradigms.

Cash for Migration Control: The EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership

Christiaan Janssen • Feb 24 2025 • Essays

By externalizing migration control to a regime with documented human rights violations, the EU deliberately evades democratic oversight and international responsibility.

Australia’s Strategic Culture and Evolving Threats in the Indo-Pacific

Vaibhav Pramod Karajgikar • Feb 18 2025 • Essays

Australia’s strategic culture is ill-suited for long-term national security due to overreliance on the US and lack of industrial capacity to support defence capabilities.

Beyond Apocalypse: Securitization and Exceptionalism in Environmental Politics

Yifei (Desmond) Shao • Feb 11 2025 • Essays

The securitization of environmental crises rarely results in extraordinary political measures due to the risks associated with mobilising such actions.

Interview – Jasmin Lilian Diab

E-International Relations • Feb 4 2025 • Features

Jasmin Lilian Diab discusses how intersectionality, climate displacement, and refugee-led initiatives are reshaping migration and refugee studies today.

Mercenaries of Peace: The Role of Private Military Contractors in Conflict

Parth Piyush Prasad • Feb 2 2025 • Essays

PMCs’ profit motive makes them ineffectual for post-conflict recovery and calls for strict regulation of their presence—which again relies on the clientele of major PMCs.

Iceland and the Vatican City: Small State Agency in International Politics

Maria Monge-Navarro Otero • Jan 26 2025 • Essays

Social structures do not always permit small states to exert agency, but they can do so at times by exercising compulsory, institutional, structural, or productive power.

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