The E-International Relations Newsletter

12 October 2025

Here’s your digest of the publications on E-International Relations over the last two weeks. 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.

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Soft Power Viral: TikTok, Memes, and Transnational Dissent in the Age of Digital Influence
– Mauricio Percara

Reframing IR through Disability: Translating Global Norms into Social Realities
– Sinmyung Park

Cute Geopolitics and the Other AI
– Yelyzaveta Glybchenko

Geostrategic Dissonance and Hyperrealism: A Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Contradiction in International Politics
– Gustavo A. Báez Castillo

From Linkage to East Asia: From the 1970s to Today’s US-Japan-ROK Strategy
– Ju Hyung Kim

The Quantum Race: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Global Security Governance
– Elena Zancanaro

From Treaty Ports to BRI Courts: China’s Legal Statecraft, Then and Now
– Ashton Ng

AI Nationalism and the Multipolar Future
– Nicholas Morieson

The Algorithm is the Musket
– Ali E. Erol

Interview – Evren Balta

Voices from Moldova’s 2025 Parliamentary Election
– Martin Duffy

Yanis Varoufakis’s Challenge to Mainstream Economics
– Muzammil Ahad Dar

Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
– Felix Willuweit

Trump, Race and International Politics
– Inzam P I

IOR First: Why India’s Indo-Pacific Ambitions Depend on Regional Primacy
– Biyon Sony Joseph

Europe’s Far Right and the Normalisation of Injustice in Palestine
– Tewfik Hamel

Securing Ukraine with Proper Financing
– Theodore MacDonald

Why Russia’s 2025 Intervision Matters
– Jennifer Ostojski

How China Is Keeping a British Political Prisoner in Hong Kong
– Ka Hang Wong

International Recognition of Palestine and the Risk of a West Bank “Frontier”
– James Ron

Europe’s Risky Quest for Technological Autonomy
– Riccardo Bosticco

Rethinking Sex: Intersex and Transgender Politics in Shia Islam
– Roohollah Talebi Tooti

Cognitive and Ethical Implications of the Drone as an Agential Actor in War
– Zayd Riaz

The Politics of Presence: Do High-Level Visits Matter in Preventing War?
– Ali Balcı

The Calibrated Brussels-Effect: Regulatory Power and Investment Risks
– Emre Kanber

Tunisia at a Crossroads: The Arab Spring’s Lone Flame, Fifteen Years On
– Suraj Yadav

The Global War on Drugs as Authoritarian Statecraft and Its Human Rights Costs
– Salvador Santino Regilme

Is Patriotism Just Obedience? Hong Kong Under the National Security Law
– Ka Hang Wong

Bridging International Relations and Innovation Studies: Lessons from Two Communities
– Pelle Berkhout

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