The E-International Relations Newsletter
22 December 2025
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the team at E-International Relations! Ahead of the holiday season, and as usual every fortnight, here’s your digest of the recent publications on E-International Relations. This is our last digest of 2025, and after a short winter beak this newsletter will be back around the 25th January.
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The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States
– Seán Molloy
The State of China’s Soft Power in 2025
– Daniele Carminati
Trump and the Politics of the Permanent Exception
– Arthur Michelino
Elections as Spectacle: Myanmar’s Manufactured Legitimacy
– Federica Cidale
Peace Building Opportunities in the Shadow of Scholasticide in Gaza?
– Akram Jamee, Fadi Khaled Abudan, Nadia Sonneveld, Andrea Stultiens, Matt Canfield and Elisa Da Vià
Review – The Impetuous Rise of the Global South
– Guilherme Casarões
The Security Council Resolutions on Western Sahara and Gaza: Is Decolonisation in Danger?
– Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Victor Kattan
The Hedley Bull – Ali Mazrui Dialogue as a Metaphor for IR
– Seifudein Adem
The Mearsheimer Logic Underlying Trump’s National Security Strategy
– Mark N. Katz
Interview – Ankit Panda
China’s Expanding Security Footprint in Africa
– Georg Lammich
The Desert of Dune to the University Classroom: Pop-culture and Political Theory
– Faiz Sheikh
Evidence that Georgia Deployed WW1-Era Chemicals against Demonstrators
– Martin Duffy
Hong Kong Fire: Dissent and Alarm under the National Security Law
– Ho-yeung Yiu
Okinawa’s Struggle with Ongoing US Military Presence
– Peter Chai
Alliance Shock Revisited: What 1968-69 Means for 2025
– Ju Hyung Kim
AI Companions and the Threat of Weaponized Synthetic Intimacy
– Ilan Manor
The Dual Track Stability of AUKUS and the QUAD
– Christopher Burke
The Emerging Phenomena of ‘Fake’ International Election Observation
– Martin Duffy
