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Hobbesian Enmity and Resource Wars in Apocalyptic Popular Culture
– Evert Jan van Leeuwen

The Nuclear Brink Revisited: Assessing Coercive Diplomacy in Iran
– Martina Sprague

Artefacts of War, Politics of Memory: Material Witnesses in Occupied Kherson
– Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

The War Against Iran Has Weakened the US in the Great Power Competition
– Bülent Gökay

Interview – Rhys Machold

Donald Trump vs Pope Leo XIV: Just War and the Emperor’s New Clothes
– David Chandler

Central Asia’s Ascent: From Geopolitical Object to Collective Actor
– Islam Supyaldiyarov

It’s Time to Restore Back-Channel Diplomacy
– Jiachen Shi

Deterrence Without Alliance: What the Moroccan Crises Can Teach Japan and South Korea
– Ju Hyung Kim

War Minus the Shooting: Sports and World Politics
– Aaron Ettinger

The Need for a More Assertive Diplomatic Stance from China on Iran
– Sergio Villarroel

Political Othering and the Discursive Construction of UK’s Small-Boat ‘Crisis’
– Alyssa Schofield

On this week’s episode of Thinking Global, Prof. T.V. Paul speaks with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this episode two of two, on his advice for early career researchers, international security, artificial intelligence in the classroom, and much more.

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Political Legitimacy, Monarchy, and Democratic Transition in Iran
– Ramesh Sepehrrad

The Iran War and the Indo-Pacific Cost of Selective Legality
– Stefan Messingschlager

Review – Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
– Luke M. Herrington

Massacre Denied, Memory Punished: Hong Kong’s Totalitarian Court at Work
– Ka Hang Wong

Review – Dismantling the League of Nations
– Fanga Agbor Martial

Israel’s Hidden Role in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
– Loris Botto

When the Algorithm Becomes the Alibi
– Muhammad Saad

The Return of Power in a Fragmenting World
– Eko Ernada

Why the Kuomintang’s Engagement with Beijing Undermines Taiwan’s Security
– Wayne Tan and Anita Chu

The 47-Year War of Attrition in the Middle East and North Africa
– Patricia Sohn

Recalling Ali Mazrui in Contemporary UN Reform Debates
– Seifudein Adem

Political Othering and the Discursive Construction of UK’s Small-Boat ‘Crisis’
– Alyssa Schofield

Review – The National Interest: Politics After Globalization
– Zachary Paikin

ZOPACAS at 40: A Reflection on Brazil-Africa Relations
– Danilo Marcondes

Trump’s Distancing from NATO over Iran
– Derrick Wyatt

Fantasy, Messianism, and (Neo)Realism’s Limits in Explaining Russia-Ukraine War
– Vanesa Valcheva

This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor T.V. Paul chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka in this first episode of two about his journey into academia, international security, Asian regional security, Indian foreign policy, and much more.

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Interview – Carlos Lopes

The Carter Doctrine and the Limits of Liminal Conflict in the Persian Gulf
– Richard W. Coughlin

The 47-Year War of Attrition in the Middle East and North Africa
– Patricia Sohn

The Uncomfortable Middle Ground in the Australia-China Research Relationship
– Elena Collinson

The Communist Party of China Reaches Out to Africa
– David H. Shinn

Why We Owe Ukraine More Than Sympathy
– Gordon W. Thomson

Power, Not Law? Venezuela as a Breach of Jus ad Bellum and State Sovereignty
– Baya Amouri

Review – Black Girl from Pyongyang
– Martin Duffy

Stewardship or Monument: Donald Trump and the Politics of Posterity
– Arthur Michelino

Interview – Catherine Rottenberg

The Politics of Age: Leadership in Europe and Beyond
– Asteris Huliaras

Interview – Nicole Bourbonnais

The Kurdish Side of the Iran War
– Hamit Ekinci and Vassilis K. Fouskas

The International Political Economy of Corporations and Post-Pandemic Inflation
– Niall Brady

Bukele and the Latin American Trilemma
– Luis Gouveia Jr

Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
– Caspar von der Schulenburg

Assessing Israel’s Apology to Qatar for the September 2025 Hamas Attack
– Ali Alabdali

No Room for Maneuver: Why Structure Forces Taiwan’s Strategic Choice
– Wayne Tan and Anita Chu

Iran at War: Deterrence, National Identity, and Existential Stakes
– Tewfik Hamel

This week on Thinking Global, Professor Trine Flockhart (European University Institute), Dr. Aaron C. McKeil (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Dr. Zachary Paikin (@zpaikin – Quincy Institute) speak with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) about Disorder, Contestation and the project of ‘Rebooting’ Global International Society. In this episode, Prof. Flockhart and Dr. Paikin revisit their 2022 edited volume Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience and Dr. McKeil explores the themes of his recent work on disorder and his 2025 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder. Kieran’s review of the latter can be found in International Affairs, 102(1).

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Echoes of Empire: Russia’s Post-Soviet Threats, Propaganda, and the Reality of Power
– Samir Hasanov

War on Iran and the Breakdown of the Liberal International Order
– Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama

Nepal’s Electoral Transformation
– Martin Duffy

Can the BRICS Adapt to a Transactional World?
– Emilio Rodriguez-Triocci

China’s Sovereignty Paradox: Why Beijing Won’t Militarily Defend Its Close Partners
– Tomaz Fares

Erasure as Assessment: Middle East Forum’s Analysis of Iran’s Opposition
– Morteza (Mory) Gharib and Kazem Kazerounian

Neuro-Rational-Physicalism and its Implications for Governance, Geostrategy and Global Order
– Nayef Al-Rodhan

War of Distraction in Iran: Existential Anxiety and Strategic Failure
– Robert L. Oprisko

The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and International Relations
– Ismail Baniadam and Farshid Jafari

Resilience for Moldova’s Future: Can NATO Provide Greater Support?
– Valentin Vataman

Integration as State-Building: Syria’s Postwar Gamble and the Kurdish Question
– Elliot Goodell Ugalde

Cyber Scams and Human Security: Towards an India-Thailand-ASEAN Agenda
– Sreeparna Banerjee

The Geopolitical Implications of the Iran War
– Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou

Is the International Liberal Order Evolving or Exposing Itself?
– Ahmet Serdar Günaydın

After the Drone Strike: What Now for UK Bases in Cyprus?
– Peter Clegg

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The Iran War Viewed Through Broader Regional Security Changes
– Lilia A. Arakelyan

Selling Iran King Without a Kingdom: How Coordinated Networks Manufacture the Appearance of Mass Support
– Kazem Kazeriouian, Franck Radjai and Ela Zabihi

The Enemy Within: US Foreign Policy During the Second Trump Administration
– Carina van de Wetering

After the Drone Strike: What Now for UK Bases in Cyprus?
– Peter Clegg

Why the Liberal Rule-Based Order Failed
– Dov H. Levin

Hierarchy After Hegemony: India’s Moment in a Fractured Order
– Biyon Sony Joseph

As Israel Pushes for Annexation, Is There Hope for Palestinians?
– James Ron

The Relevance of Nixon’s Madman Theory to Today’s Northeast Asia
– Ju Hyung Kim

India’s AI Summit: Optics, Scope and Global Diplomacy
– Tusharika Deka

Testing the Red Line: Jimmy Lai’s Sentence as a Flashpoint in Sino-American Relations
– Ho-yeung Yiu

How Japan’s Prime Minister Hijacked A Deep-Sea Rare-Earth Exploration
– Lai-Ha Chan

The Chicken or the Egg: Securitization of AI or AI-fication of Security?
– Sina Hoch

Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
– Caspar von der Schulenburg

From Bandung to BRICS+?
– Seifudein Adem

Not Just Fake News: Deepfakes and the Crisis of Trust
– Marilù Miotto

Hard Power and Legitimacy in the Chagos Archipelago
– Derrick Wyatt

India’s AI Summit and the Politics of “Techno-Civilizational” Modernity
– Nicholas Morieson, Chloe Smith and Muhammad Omer

This week, our Thinking Borders series (part of our Thinking Global podcast) returns with an interview with Professor Thomas Nail who discusses the philosophy of movement, the fluidity of borders, migration, border technologies, kinopolitics, border regimes and more. Get Thinking Global on all major podcast platforms.

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A Niebuhrian Analysis of the US Operation in Venezuela
– Klaus Heinrich Raditio

Review – Sick of It
– Meena Masood

Will Somaliland Become the Taiwan of the Horn of Africa?
– Hamdy A. Hassan

The Missing Factor in Iran’s Unrest is Ethnic Division
– Ali Askerov

Interview – Julianne Liebenguth

Energy Security as Hierarchy: Venezuelan Oil in the US-China-Russia Triangle
– Anya Kuteleva

Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America
– Axel Bastián Poque González

Estonia: Small State Security and the International Order
– Muhammad Faizal bin Abdul Rahman

Interview – Astha Chadha

Nepal’s Use of Lethal Force and South Asia’s Enforcement Vacuum
– Bhavya Johari

Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors
– Aaron Wolf

Recognising Divided Somaliland
– Markus Virgil Hoehne

Near-Term Scenarios for US Strategy Towards Venezuela
– Jack Dulgarian

France in the Era of Predators: Macron’s 2025 Doctrine
– Arthur Michelino

Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America
– Axel Bastián Poque González

Repeating Iraq in Venezuela: Different Presidents, Same Mistake
– Bülent Gökay

Digital Colonialism Is the New Scramble for Africa
– Titilope Ajeboriogbon

Rethinking the ‘Illiberal International’: Power, Fragmentation, and Institutions
– Eko Ernada

The Far-Right and the Construction of the Red Enemy in Latin America
– Cairo Junqueira, Lívia Milani, Iara Lima and Pablo Guimarães

American-Centered Interdependence in Transition
– Seifudein Adem

The Desert of Dune to the University Classroom: Pop-culture and Political Theory
– Faiz Sheikh

Elections as Spectacle: Myanmar’s Manufactured Legitimacy
– Federica Cidale

Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism
– Felix Willuweit

How Latin America Can Navigate the US-China Trade War
– Sergio Villarroel

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

External Funding Dependence in African Union Conflict Resolution
–  Jude Cocodia

Venezuela and the Cost of Abandoning South American Collective Defense
– Guilherme Frizzera

Contested Horizons in Post-Ba’ath Syria
– Yunus Abakay

The Diffuse Unilateralism of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention
– Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama

Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland
– Jamal Abdi

Ulster’s Political Hauntology and the Forces Research Unit
– Martin Duffy

Neo-Ottomanism as Civilizational Nationalism: Turkey’s Quest for Identity
– M. Hakan Yavuz

Trump’s Spectacle of Domination in Venezuela
– Richard W. Coughlin

Thinking Global Podcast is launching a new series with a focus on borders: Thinking Borders. In our first episode Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran, border resistance and more.