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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.

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