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The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (641+ words) The ‘New Institutionalism’: How to Discern Change and Continuity in International Order The Balance of Power Pariah Diplomacy and the Trump Presidency The Use of Force The combination of rising multipolarity, declining American hegemony, and increasingly brazen violations threatens to…...

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Towards a Global International Relations?

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1635+ words) e-ir.org Towards a Global International Relations? The study of International Relations is growing rapidly all over the world. IR students in Western universities are an increasingly multicultural lot, drawn from many different parts of the world. There is also…...

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Who Believes in Gulf Futurism?

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1701+ words) E-International Relations Who Believes in Gulf Futurism? When the American-Qatari artist Sophia Al-Maria and Kuwaiti composer Fatima Al Qadiri coined the term “Gulf Futurism” more than a decade ago, they employed it in two intertwined but dissonant senses. Gulf Futurism…...

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The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (475+ words) This is an excerpt from The Praeter-Colonial Mind: An Intellectual Journey Through the Back Alleys of Empire by Francisco Lobo. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. We Are All Americans If in the end the…...

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Opinion – Iran's War on Kurdish Opposition: Organised, Not Armed

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (854+ words) E-International Relations Opinion – Iran's War on Kurdish Opposition: Organised, Not Armed In the early hours of 17 August 2026, two explosive drones struck the private office of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the residence of the head of…...

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The End of History and the Return to Geopolitics

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1508+ words) E-International Relations The End of History and the Return to Geopolitics In his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama put forward one of the most challenging and enduring hypotheses in the International Relations corpus. As…...

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Review – New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (652+ words) E-International Relations Review – New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West Andrew Latham and Logan Leybold David Sanger’s new book presents a timely analysis of the emerging challenges to U.S. foreign policy, framing…...

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Post 12-Day War: The Limits of Israel’s Degradation Strategy Against Iran’s Network State

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1414+ words) E-International Relations Post 12-Day War: The Limits of Israel’s Degradation Strategy Against Iran’s Network State The “12 Day War” between Israel and Iran is the peak of a five-decade long conflict between a military-centric hierarchy of the Israeli state and the…...

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Thinking Globally about the 2025 Iran-Israel Twelve-Day War

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (126+ words) Acharya, Amitav. 2014. “Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds: A New Agenda for International Studies.” International Studies Quarterly 58 (4): 647–659 Bilgin, Pinar. 2021. “How Not to Globalise IR: ‘Centre’ and ‘Periphery’ as Constitutive of ‘the International’”. Uluslararasi Iliskiler 18 (70): 1-15. Bilgin, Pinar and Karen Smith....

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Against Mystification, or What Went Wrong with Critical IR

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (384+ words) A related discipline has had a more public reckoning with these sorts of fetishizing moves: trans studies. In 2019, the polemicist Andrea Long Chu made a daring indictment of trans studies in the pages of its leading journal, Trans Studies Quarterly:…...