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Interview – Carlos Lopes
The Carter Doctrine and the Limits of Liminal Conflict in the Persian Gulf
– Richard W. Coughlin
The 47-Year War of Attrition in the Middle East and North Africa
– Patricia Sohn
The Uncomfortable Middle Ground in the Australia-China Research Relationship
– Elena Collinson
The Communist Party of China Reaches Out to Africa
– David H. Shinn
Why We Owe Ukraine More Than Sympathy
– Gordon W. Thomson
Power, Not Law? Venezuela as a Breach of Jus ad Bellum and State Sovereignty
– Baya Amouri
Review – Black Girl from Pyongyang
– Martin Duffy
Stewardship or Monument: Donald Trump and the Politics of Posterity
– Arthur Michelino
Interview – Catherine Rottenberg
The Politics of Age: Leadership in Europe and Beyond
– Asteris Huliaras
Interview – Nicole Bourbonnais
The Kurdish Side of the Iran War
– Hamit Ekinci and Vassilis K. Fouskas
The International Political Economy of Corporations and Post-Pandemic Inflation
– Niall Brady
Bukele and the Latin American Trilemma
– Luis Gouveia Jr
Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
– Caspar von der Schulenburg
Assessing Israel’s Apology to Qatar for the September 2025 Hamas Attack
– Ali Alabdali
No Room for Maneuver: Why Structure Forces Taiwan’s Strategic Choice
– Wayne Tan and Anita Chu
Iran at War: Deterrence, National Identity, and Existential Stakes
– Tewfik Hamel
This week on Thinking Global, Professor Trine Flockhart (European University Institute), Dr. Aaron C. McKeil (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Dr. Zachary Paikin (@zpaikin – Quincy Institute) speak with Kieran (@kieranjomeara) about Disorder, Contestation and the project of ‘Rebooting’ Global International Society. In this episode, Prof. Flockhart and Dr. Paikin revisit their 2022 edited volume Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience and Dr. McKeil explores the themes of his recent work on disorder and his 2025 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder. Kieran’s review of the latter can be found in International Affairs, 102(1).
