Happy New Year! We’re back with your digest of the recent publications from E-International Relations to get you all caught up. This newsletter, and all of our content, will always be free – and everything we publish is facilitated by our all-volunteer team. If you are able to support our work you can sign up for the paid tier if you have not yet done so.
A Niebuhrian Analysis of the US Operation in Venezuela
– Klaus Heinrich Raditio
Review – Sick of It
– Meena Masood
Will Somaliland Become the Taiwan of the Horn of Africa?
– Hamdy A. Hassan
The Missing Factor in Iran’s Unrest is Ethnic Division
– Ali Askerov
Interview – Julianne Liebenguth
Energy Security as Hierarchy: Venezuelan Oil in the US-China-Russia Triangle
– Anya Kuteleva
Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America
– Axel Bastián Poque González
Estonia: Small State Security and the International Order
– Muhammad Faizal bin Abdul Rahman
Interview – Astha Chadha
Nepal’s Use of Lethal Force and South Asia’s Enforcement Vacuum
– Bhavya Johari
Proliferation Risks Associated with Small Modular Reactors
– Aaron Wolf
Recognising Divided Somaliland
– Markus Virgil Hoehne
Near-Term Scenarios for US Strategy Towards Venezuela
– Jack Dulgarian
France in the Era of Predators: Macron’s 2025 Doctrine
– Arthur Michelino
Energy Security and the Revival of US Hard Power in Latin America
– Axel Bastián Poque González
Repeating Iraq in Venezuela: Different Presidents, Same Mistake
– Bülent Gökay
Digital Colonialism Is the New Scramble for Africa
– Titilope Ajeboriogbon
Rethinking the ‘Illiberal International’: Power, Fragmentation, and Institutions
– Eko Ernada
The Far-Right and the Construction of the Red Enemy in Latin America
– Cairo Junqueira, Lívia Milani, Iara Lima and Pablo Guimarães
American-Centered Interdependence in Transition
– Seifudein Adem
The Desert of Dune to the University Classroom: Pop-culture and Political Theory
– Faiz Sheikh
Elections as Spectacle: Myanmar’s Manufactured Legitimacy
– Federica Cidale
Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism
– Felix Willuweit
How Latin America Can Navigate the US-China Trade War
– Sergio Villarroel
From French Guiana to the Falklands: Could US Influence Reshape Europe’s Overseas Territories?
– Peter Clegg
External Funding Dependence in African Union Conflict Resolution
– Jude Cocodia
Venezuela and the Cost of Abandoning South American Collective Defense
– Guilherme Frizzera
Contested Horizons in Post-Ba’ath Syria
– Yunus Abakay
The Diffuse Unilateralism of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention
– Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama
Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland
– Jamal Abdi
Ulster’s Political Hauntology and the Forces Research Unit
– Martin Duffy
Neo-Ottomanism as Civilizational Nationalism: Turkey’s Quest for Identity
– M. Hakan Yavuz
Trump’s Spectacle of Domination in Venezuela
– Richard W. Coughlin
Thinking Global Podcast is launching a new series with a focus on borders: Thinking Borders. In our first episode Professor Shahram Khosravi discusses autoethnography, personal narratives, the ethics of writing about others, Iran, border resistance and more.





