E-International Relations is delighted to share with you a brand new incarnation of the website at e-ir.org.
You may have already been reading our material on the new website and getting the email digests as we have been cross/shadow posting here for quite a while. We have built the new website around social and sharing principles to allow our editors, authors and readers to comment/share and form a community. And we’re excited to see it grow. It can be viewed on the substack app, on any browser, and all posts will also be emailed to reader’s inboxes.
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Why the change? The prior version of E-International Relations has been online since November 2007 and has published over 10,000 pieces of content in that time (nearly 20 years!). The old website was built on a heavily modified version of WordPress, an open-source content management system. In recent years our version of the platform has been getting unstable due to its age and technical limitations. Exacerbating our situation, we have experienced a wave of serious brute force and cyber attacks, partially because of our profile as a well known online publisher of diverse and often critical views that have made us a target of state and non-state groups. These attacks have never affected our editorial decisions and we always managed to clear them up without much fuss. However, we had to make a tough call and take the old website offline last week. So, while we had planned a more graceful migration to the new website, which is packing all the stability and security we need to stand us in good stead, we will have to do the switch a bit quicker. So, what we would like to communicate to you is the following:
Everything we have published this year (2026) is already on the new website, or is scheduled to go online in the coming week or so. The links will be different/new, old links will not work. We are really sorry about that. If you want to find something, search the title/author name on the new website. The search function is near instantaneous and you can find it on the top menu bar at the right side. At present, the new website design does not feature author profile pages, though authors can search their name and find all their posts super fast.
The majority of posts from 2025 will be migrated in due course. This will include our scholarly articles, interviews and reviews. Op-eds/topical articles will not be migrated (as they are tied to the time of writing and often age fast). However if you had an op-ed published with us in recent years, why not consider sending us new thoughts on the issue? Our submissions are open, as always for anything you want to send us.
Regarding our more bespoke content: Our open access books (going back to 2009) are already live on the new website, though again please note the links have changed. More books are also coming, so stay tuned! And, the Thinking Global podcast is still rocking, with all episodes stored on your favourite podcast service and loads more to come – which we will share on the new website, as usual.
We are undertaking an archive project examining everything published from 2024 and earlier. Content will be migrated and republished (with a new link) if we determine that it maintains a high level of scholarly relevance when viewed from a 2026 vantage point. This work will take a while, and will be done gradually over the coming months.
The old E-International Relations website has been archived and captured in full by the Wayback machine. You can view fully functional weekly backups there going back to 2007. So, despite point 4 above, we want authors to be assured that nothing is lost. We deeply appreciate the efforts everyone has made in sending us their work and regret that we cannot migrate new versions of everything to the new site. If you don’t see something you previously wrote appearing on e-ir.org over the next few months you can find/re-link an archived version using the website above.
We no longer run click/display advertising on our posts as revenue has dropped to the point where it is not worth bothering readers with adverts (this is an issue faced by all but the biggest publishers, especially as the web is now drowning in AI and bots). So without that ad revenue we now rely on the support of our readers to help us cover our costs – which includes licensing (such as images), software, technical, design, development and regulatory/legal fees (we are a registered non-profit). As our costs are modest (we are all volunteers) we are hopeful the donation/subscription model will sustain us and we hope you will enjoy the ad-free reading!
If you can support us by donating a few bucks a month, the subscribe link is here. There is a free tier if you want to read our content and get email updates and our newsletter without donating (that’s fine, of course! we will never paywall our content).
Thanks so much for your time and support from the entire E-International Relations team, and here’s to the next 20 years!
With our best wishes,
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: Stephen McGlinchey
Managing Editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief: Marianna Karakoulaki
Managing Editor and Executive Producer of Thinking Global: Kieran O’Meara
Managing Editors: Farah Saleem Düzakman, Qi Zhang
Editor-at-Large and Producer of Thinking Global: Tusharika Deka
Editors-at-large: Edoardo Pieroni, Bill Kakenmaster, Raghav Dua
Deputy Editors: Charlotte M. Jones, Lakmalie Wijesinghe, Ridipt Singh
Commissioning Editors: Felipe Crowhurst, Adeleke Olumide Ogunnoiki, Simon Hilditch, Yatana Yamahata, Ayman Triki, Laura Innocenti, Camila Yanez Coello, Minglou Li, Sebastian Boyd, Ibrahim Atta, Kgomotso Komane, , Laura Birbalaitė, Luis Octavio dos Santos Gouveia Junior, Isti Marta Sukma, Isabel Veninga, Sofia Rozou, Min Young Park, Ka Hang Wong, Bailey Schwab, Georgia Bandey, Manishita Das, Giorgos Katrantsiotis, Caleb Mills, Charlie Zawadzki, Giorgia Casale, Evin Vinoy, Deniz Gün Eraslan, Daniel Drury, Yana Sadeghi, Arina Singh, Konstantina Oikonomou.
Deputy Students Editors: Dana Koptleuova, Scarlett Vickers
Associate Students Editors: Sugandhi Jhambh, Alfredo Putrawidjoyo, Junxian (Eric) Wang, Anto Mariya M M, Keishanna Dalangin.
Editorial Assistants: Ollie Bisogni, Jennifer Engl, Kosta Kambouris, Hira Malik, Romanos Orpheas Tofis, Jude Yeo.