The E-International Relations Newsletter
23 November 2025
Here’s your digest of the recent publications on E-International Relations. 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.
Donald Trump: Reconfiguring Global Order
– Jeffrey Sommers, Zoltán Vörös and István Tarrósy
From Hiroshima to Ukraine: Nuclear Taboo and Strategic Morality Under Pressure
– Tewfik Hamel
Why We Fight: The Rules-Based International Order
– Francisco Lobo
A Mitigation Amendment to Keep Paris Alive?
– Jacopo Bencini
Trump’s Cairo Roast and the Performance of Populism
– Nicholas Morieson
Review – Russia’s War on Everybody
– Emma Isabella Sage
All Under Heaven: China’s Awakening
– Francisco Lobo
Opinion – Strategic Voids in Global Environmental Governance
– J. Miguel Escobedo De la Torre
Timor-Leste: ASEAN’s Newest Member
– Lili Chen
Sheikh Hasina’s Conviction and the Weaponization of Justice
– Christopher Burke
North Macedonia’s Emergent Ethnic Nationalism
– Martin Duffy
Does the ICC Work? Legal Innovation and Political Constraints in Global Justice
– Han Lu
New Commodity Frontiers: Chile and Indonesia in the Geopolitics of Critical Minerals
– Axel Bastián Poque González
America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited
– Francisco Lobo
Anchored Autonomy: Europe’s Strategy for a Post-Complacent Age
– Stefan Messingschlager
The House of the Post-Colonial Spirits
– Francisco Lobo
Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action
– Ninon de Buchet
Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC
– Raisha Jesmin Rafa
The Colonial and Its Discontents: Anti-Colonialism, Decolonization, and Post-Colonialism
– Francisco Lobo
This week on Thinking Global, Rumela Sen discusses civil conflicts, rebellions and the effect of technological development in South Asia. The conversation explores Maoist rebellion and governance, the challenges of fieldwork, the politics of Nepal, digital transnational repression, the intersection of democracy and technology, and much more. Listen here or search for Thinking Global wherever you get your podcasts.
