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.
The Iran War Viewed Through Broader Regional Security Changes
– Lilia A. Arakelyan
Selling Iran King Without a Kingdom: How Coordinated Networks Manufacture the Appearance of Mass Support
– Kazem Kazeriouian, Franck Radjai and Ela Zabihi
The Enemy Within: US Foreign Policy During the Second Trump Administration
– Carina van de Wetering
After the Drone Strike: What Now for UK Bases in Cyprus?
– Peter Clegg
Why the Liberal Rule-Based Order Failed
– Dov H. Levin
Hierarchy After Hegemony: India’s Moment in a Fractured Order
– Biyon Sony Joseph
As Israel Pushes for Annexation, Is There Hope for Palestinians?
– James Ron
The Relevance of Nixon’s Madman Theory to Today’s Northeast Asia
– Ju Hyung Kim
India’s AI Summit: Optics, Scope and Global Diplomacy
– Tusharika Deka
Testing the Red Line: Jimmy Lai’s Sentence as a Flashpoint in Sino-American Relations
– Ho-yeung Yiu
How Japan’s Prime Minister Hijacked A Deep-Sea Rare-Earth Exploration
– Lai-Ha Chan
The Chicken or the Egg: Securitization of AI or AI-fication of Security?
– Sina Hoch
Is Genocide Inherently Colonial? A Decolonial Intervention in the Debate
– Caspar von der Schulenburg
From Bandung to BRICS+?
– Seifudein Adem
Not Just Fake News: Deepfakes and the Crisis of Trust
– Marilù Miotto
Hard Power and Legitimacy in the Chagos Archipelago
– Derrick Wyatt
India’s AI Summit and the Politics of “Techno-Civilizational” Modernity
– Nicholas Morieson, Chloe Smith and Muhammad Omer
This week, our Thinking Borders series (part of our Thinking Global podcast) returns with an interview with Professor Thomas Nail who discusses the philosophy of movement, the fluidity of borders, migration, border technologies, kinopolitics, border regimes and more. Get Thinking Global on all major podcast platforms.





