The E-International Relations Newsletter
27 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.
Borders as Violence: From Territorial Lines to Distributed Practices
– Manish Jung Pulami and Saroj Kumar Aryal
Is the Cuban Regime on the Brink of Collapse?
– Luis Martínez-Fernández
Why China Parades Power as Peace
– Enrico Gloria
Why Polarity Misleads: Toward a New Grammar of International Relations
– Arthur Michelino
The West’s Role in Ukraine’s Lost Future
– Ali Askerov
Bridging International Relations and Innovation Studies: Lessons from Two Communities
– Pelle Berkhout
When Political Fear Trumps Rights: Same-Sex Couples in Hong Kong
– Ka Hang Wong
How Europe’s Global Gateway Competes With China’s BRI
– Stefan Messingschlager
The Power and Peril of the Youth Bulge: Nepal’s Gen Z Protests
– Alok Shubham
The Hydraulic Hegemon: India’s Weaponization of Transboundary Rivers
– Md Tariqul Islam Tanvir and Shafi Md Mostofa
Xi’s Balancing Act and the West’s India Problem
– Roie Yellinek
Japan’s Growing Maritime Flashpoints
– Julian McBride
Britain’s Role in Syria’s Stabilisation
– Hamit Ekinci
Assad’s Syria and the Second Partitionist Age That Never Was
– Alex Cruikshanks
We are delighted to share with our readers the winner of the the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University Press, Polity, Sage, Bloomsbury, Manchester University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and Bristol University Press.
The winning article this year is The Ghost of Gandhi: A Hauntological Approach to Truth and Non-Violence by Astha Chadha.
Dr. Astha Chadha is an Associate Professor at the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and is also an adjunct lecturer at Doshisha Women’s College (Kyoto) and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu). Her research focuses on South Asian security, Japan-India relations, gender security in the Indo-Pacific, and religion in global politics. She is a Regional Research Associate at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center (Australia), and the Communications Chair for ISA’s Religion and International Relations section. She is the author of Faith and Politics in South Asia (Routledge: 2024).