The E-International Relations Newsletter
9 November 2025
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 Poverty of Rational Trumpism
– Richard W. Coughlin
The Haves and the Have-Nots: The West, the Global South, and the Rest
– Francisco Lobo
Interview – Raluca Csernatoni
The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach
– Cornelia Navari, Charlotta Friedner Parrat, Ioannis Stivachtis, Tonny Brems Knudsen, Dennis Schmidt, Huss Banai and Arie Kacowicz
To Be Feared Is to Be Free: Macron’s Realist Turn
– Arthur Michelino
Changing Frontiers of Sino-US Technological Competition
– Xinger Wei
Trilateral Lessons from the 1980s for Today’s Indo-Pacific Challenges
– Ju Hyung Kim
The Formidability of Constitutional Challenges to Quebec’s Laicity Law
– Sirvan Karimi
An Introduction to Ecofeminist Thought for International Relations Students
– Vivian Ike
Will NATO Collapse? Gamers Rejoice
– Jack Dulgarian
The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America
– Francisco Lobo
Review – In Their Own Words
– Taras Kuzio
Federalism: The Best Path for Syria’s Future
– Ali Askerov
Cameroon’s Leadership Longevity and the Limitations of Selectorate Theory
– Afa’anwi Ma’abo Che
Interview – Bill Niven
Kathmandu: City of Peace, Economies of Scale and Cultural Diversity
– Uddhab Pyakurel and Patricia Sohn
The Grand Inquest of the World: British Imperialism and Europe
– Francisco Lobo
Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA
– David Thomas
This week on the Thinking Global Podcast we spoke to Philip Cunliffe to discuss his new book The National Interest: Politics After Globalization, what the concept of ‘the national interest’ entails, how International Relations as a discipline has moved away from it, and why Cunliffe argues for its revival in contemporary political thought. The conversation ranges from debates over globalization and sovereignty to questions about Brexit and the future of international order. Listen here or search for Thinking Global wherever you get your podcasts.
Finally, this month we published The Praeter-Colonial Mind: An Intellectual Journey Through the Back Alleys of Empire by Francisco Lobo. Drawing on anecdotal evidence and philosophical analysis, this book spans across the war in Ukraine, British and American imperialism, the so-called Global South, anti-colonialism and decolonization, culture wars and political violence, Trumpism, the rules-based international order, the rise of China, and the advent of AI, all against the backdrop of the author’s personal experiences in America, Europe, and post-Soviet spaces. The mind that tries to make sense of all of this sees colonialism simultaneously as past and present as it is confronted with the evidence of its many legacies – and attempts to step aside to gain perspective and go above and beyond colonialism.
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