E-International Relations is delighted to share with you a brand new incarnation of the website – e-ir.org – hosted right here on Substack.
You may have already been reading our material here 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. 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, 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 2024 and 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 2023 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. Just pop the original e-ir.info hyperlink of anything you had bookmarked in the search bar (top of the screen) and it will come up. So, 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 are now a reader supported publication. If you can support our work and help us invest in new projects and pay our bills 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).
If you have any concerns, or if you want us to prioritise migrating your content, please get in touch (here or by email) with the details and we’ll get back to you.
Thanks so much for your time and support, and here’s to the next 20 years! With our best wishes – the E-International Relations team.