Here’s your digest of all the published pieces 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.
Opinion – “Poetic Imageries” and the Politics of Witnessing in Iran
– Marcelle Trote Martins
Science Fiction and the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Future War
– Tom F.A. Watts and Duncan Depledge
Opinion – Why the Original Thucydides Trap Fails the Taiwan Strait Crisis
– Jinghao Zhou
Opinion – Why the Anthropocene Failed to Deliver on Its Promise
– David Chandler
Interview – Andrea Miotti
Opinion – The Simmering Polish-Ukrainian Memory Wars
– Alexander Brotman
Ali Mazrui and the Limits of Positivism
– Seifudein Adem
Opinion – No Agreement with Tehran Can Save a Regime Rejected by Its People
– Ramesh Sepehrrad
AI as Statecraft: How Asia Is Rewriting the Rules of Technology Power
– Mark Esposito and Bruno S. Sergi
Opinion – Beyond the Backyard: US Presence in Latin America During the Trump Era
– Sergio Villarroel
America’s Suez Moment? The Middle East Conflict and the Limits of U.S. Primacy
– Nader Rahimi
Opinion – How Do Small States Survive? The Armenian Election Shows an Example
– Hyeran Jo, Efe Tokdemir and Erman Ermihan
China’s Global Initiatives through a Latin American Lens
– Alberto Maresca
Opinion – From Euratom to Northeast Asia: Franco-German Lessons for Tokyo and Seoul
– Ju Hyung Kim
Opinion – How a War Meant to Break the Islamic Republic Revived It
– Naser Ghobadzadeh
On the last day of the BISA 2026 conference, Prof. Kimberly Hutchings came and spoke with us for an episode of Thinking Global about her keynote speech at the conference. In this she explores violence, non-violence, peace, whether non-violence is always possible, advice to early career researchers and much more.
Thinking Global is available anywhere you get your podcasts.
