Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our first newsletter of 2025. Here’s your digest of the publications on E-International Relations over the past month (*we skipped one newsletter cycle due to our January break, and we’ll be back to fortnightly from here on out). If you are able to support our work you can sign up for the paid tier if you have not yet done so.
Do the Voices of Victims of Mass Atrocities Make a Difference?
– Mukesh Kapila
Trump’s Coronation: The New Romanov Century
– Patricia Sohn
Europe’s Lagging Position on Microprocessors
– Robert Palmer
Water Wars in the Middle East: Reality or Fiction?
– Reza Sohrabi
Review – Spying in South Asia
– Dhruv Gadhavi
Syrian Comedy Post-Assad
– Noor Suwwan
Iceland and the Vatican City: Small State Agency in International Politics
– Maria Monge-Navarro Otero
Why Do We Need a Sociology of Corruption?
– David Jancsics
The Path Forward for Bangladesh
– Mubashar Hasan
Bangladesh at the Centre of Australia’s Focus on the South
– Mia Mahmudur Rahim
The ‘Second Image’ and Contemporary Civil-Military Relations
– Kyunghyun Ro
Great Power Competition in Africa: Toward a New Cold War?
– Pádraig Carmody
Review – To Run the World
– Constantine Pleshakov
The Fall of the Contras: Why Nicaragua’s Rebel Forces Failed
– Emilie Duns
Interview – Precious Chatterje-Doody
(Dis)Arming the Responsibility of Western Arms Producers
– Bretton J. McEvoy
Leading the Free World Through a Second Trump Administration
– Karsten Jung
Resilience and the Preparation of the Liberal Subject
– Jan Pospisil and Christopher Oringa
Towards a Proper Understanding of Somaliland’s Success
– Jamal Abdi
Thinking Global Podcast – Simon Polinder
Explaining Chinese Inaction in the Red Sea Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis
– Natalia Kearney Fang
Interview – Karsten Friis
2025’s Gas Crisis in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
– Martin Duffy
Human Rights Concerns as Somaliland Seeks International Recognition
– Jama Kayse
Westphalianism to Civilizational Statism: Trendy Mirage or Foundational Shift
– Shivani Pandey
Interview – Hidemi Suganami
Interview – Adam Humphreys
Review – Killers of the Flower Moon
– Martin Duffy
Ten Years After the Paris Agreement: The Tragedy of the Overshoot Generation
– Marcelo de Araujo and Pedro Fior Mota de Andrade
Sub-Imperialisms in the Syrian Imbroglio
– Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay
Between Destiny and Diplomacy: American Exceptionalism Evolution Post-Cold War
– Felipe de Souza
Feminist Foreign Policy Sharpens Focus on Ending Gender-Based Violence as Key to National Security
– Stephenie Foster
What Motivated Putin to Invade Ukraine?
– Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou
A Decade of Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Motivations and India’s Suspicions
– Nitin Menon
Rethinking the Precarity of the Hindu Minority in Bangladesh
– Sazzad Siddiqui
Review – New Cold Wars
– Andrew Latham and Logan Leybold
Interview – Dhruva Jaishankar
Between Hegemony and Harmony: Unpacking Russia’s Dual Strategy in the Arctic
– Sara Seppanen
Introducing the Major International Relations Theories
– Stephen McGlinchey, Rosie Walters and Dana Gold
