The E-International Relations Newsletter
14 September 2025
Here’s your digest of the recent publications on E-International Relations. This newsletter, and all of our content, will always be free. If you are able to support our work you can sign up for the paid tier if you have not yet done so.
Is the Cuban Regime on the Brink of Collapse?
– Luis Martinez-Fernandez
Why China Parades Power as Peace
– Enrico Gloria
Review – The Wokisme Controversy
– Alain Policar
Unlocking Human Capacity for Equitable Peace in an Anarchic and Hierarchical World
– Nayef Al-Rodhan
Reclaiming Just Transition from Neocolonial Energy Agendas
– Shoutao Wu
Assad’s Syria and the Second Partitionist Age That Never Was
– Alex Cruikshanks
Why Xi, Putin and Kim on One Stage Matters
– Roie Yellinek
Interview – Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Climate Justice after the ICJ: Authority, Diffusion, and State Responsibility
– Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Review – Causal Inquiry in International Relations
– Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
The IRGC at a Crossroads: Strategic Lessons from the June 2025 Israel-Iran War
– Eric Lob
Interview – Daniele Benzi
What Has Trump Got Planned for Venezuela?
– Richard M. Sanders
The Geographic Framing of Israel
– Caleb Griffin
Reflections on Quantitative Analysis in Religion and International Relations
– Peter S. Henne
EU Membership for Russia: A Brief History of a Fantastical Idea
– Curtis Large
Brazil’s Place in Trump’s New Economic Vision
– Rafael R. Ioris
Turkey’s Role in Europe’s Post-American Defense
– Anil Can Özgün
Australia’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Balancing Responsiveness and Responsibility?
– Daniel Casey
Climate, Peace, and Partnership: Insights from Germany
– Benjamin Pohl and Janani Vivekananda
American Military Power and World Peace: A Strategic Paradox?
– Tewfik Hamel
Australia’s Recognition of Palestine as a Catalyst
– Timothy Lakaseru
Wi-Fi, War and West Papua in an Algorithmic Age
– Christopher Burke
Interregnum and the Normalisation of Deviation: Unveiling the Structure of International Order
– Konstantina D. Oikonomou
Review – The Once and Future World Order
– Bo Yuan Chang
The Performance of UN Transitional Authorities
– Martin Duffy
Toward a Dynamic Narrative of Return in Complex Conflict Environments
– Tamirace Fakhoury
One Year of Masoud Pezeshkian’s Leadership in Iran
– Stuti Gogoi
Review – Quantum International Relations
– Chengxin Pan
Causes, Consequences and Repercussions of the Conflict with Syria’s Druze Minority
– Yakub Halabi
Technology and Military Diffusion: Assessing the Impacts on Military Effectiveness
– Tewfik Hamel
How Far Has Bangladesh Come One Year After Its “Second Independence”
– Tamanna Ashraf
Russia’s Arctic Corridor: Between Ice and Isolation
– Manashjyoti Karjee
Forecasting the Next World War: Between Theory and Practice
– Raphaël P.P. Dosson
Conflict as System Realignment: How Overloaded Systems Reset Themselves
– Arthur Michelino
On the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska
– Callum Gaskell and Bulent Gokay
Bodies of Resistance: Visibilising Women’s Lives Under Romania’s Abortion Ban
– Ioana Paun
Putin’s PR Win and Trump’s Strategic Misstep at the Alaska Summit
– Jinghao Zhou
Trump’s ‘Gangster Diplomacy’: The Political Economy of US-Japan Tariffs
– Masahiro Matsumura
The Caucasus be TRIPP’in: Two Viewpoints on Trump’s Azerbaijan-Armenia ‘Peace’
– Lilia A. Arakelyan and Hanna Samir Kassab
Assessing China’s Strategy Towards Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
– Julian McBride
Why Trump-Inspired Nationalists in Europe Can’t Stick Together
– Yusuke Ishikawa
Queering Proportionality: The Impact of Trans Allyship on Palestinian Liberation
– Gray Black
Circular Agroecology for a Resilient Europe
– Guus ter Haar, Martin Calisto Friant and Niko Wojtynia
We also published a unique article series last week titled Decolonial Praxis: Going Beyond Empty Words. The series was edited by Fernando David Márquez Duarte, Dulce Alarcón Payán and Javier Daniel Alarcón Mares. Editorial and Translation Assistant: Lorenia Gutiérrez Moreto Cruz. The series features eight articles. Read them all here.
Well, that was a bumper edition, and you should all be caught up now! We’ll be back to the fortnightly cycle for the next newsletter. Many thanks again for being a subscriber.