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Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/11/03/war-and-crisis-the-impact-of-narratives-on-the-militarisation-of-u-s-police/

Navalny embodied an alternative Russia to the Kremlin government's control. Yet, despite his activism and liberal image, Navalny's rhetoric was imperialistic at heart.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/25/imperialism-in-contemporary-russian-liberalism-alexei-navalnys-rhetoric/

For India, non-alignment followed by no retaliation in the war represents the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium, balancing diverse interests in a complex geopolitical context.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/18/game-theory-and-non-alignment-indias-position-in-the-russia-ukraine-war/

Oslo facilitated the territorial dispossession, economic dependency, and political fragmentation of Palestine as it was set up to bolster Israel’s occupational regime.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/12/the-oslo-process-the-facade-of-peace-between-palestine-and-israel/

Arguments against SERs' justiciability—on grounds of their ‘costly’ nature, vagueness, intangibility, and the incapacity of courts—prove counterproductive and misguided.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/06/analysing-the-justiciability-of-social-and-economic-rights/

China's education diplomacy in CARs elucidates the intricacies of building cultural affinity, the nuances of alignment, and the synergy between hard and soft power.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/10/01/beijings-charm-offensive-chinas-soft-power-projection-in-central-asia/

Aggressive imitation is meant not only to justify IS’s violence but to express its worldview—of restoring Muslim honour by avenging the humiliation Muslims have suffered.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/24/how-the-islamic-state-weaponizes-imitation-in-its-propaganda/

The gendered analysis of weaponization of healthcare reveals how when it is combined with sexual violence women are exposed to a compounded form of violence.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/17/gender-and-weaponization-of-healthcare-in-conflict-a-feminist-discourse-analysis/

The internal Russian information space serves as a testing ground for Russia's information operations before they are deployed against countries of the post-Soviet space.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/07/laboratories-at-home-and-abroad-russian-information-operations-pre-deployment/

Border art re-conceptualises the US-Mexico border by engendering an aesthetic experience fractured from the hierarchical and hegemonic 'distribution of the sensible'.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/09/02/an-embodiment-a-bridge-and-a-tribute-conceptualisations-from-beyond-the-border/

Particularly in the case of de facto states, non-formal recognition practices can play a major role in constructing sovereignty and statehood for the territory in question.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/08/27/more-than-a-seat-in-the-general-assembly-the-recognition-of-de-facto-states/

Claims of China's Debt Trap Diplomacy stem from a Western bias against China and China's opaque lending practices, but there is little evidence such claims are factual.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/08/19/unmasking-the-narrative-is-chinas-debt-trap-diplomacy-fact-or-fiction/

The 1951 Refugee Convention's limitations are increasingly evident as climate change drives displacement, necessitating broader legal frameworks for protection.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/08/13/are-climate-refugees-compatible-with-the-1951-refugee-convention/

RT portrays the international system as a new Cold War system with a nuclear face-off between two superpowers and Russia as facing nuclear threats from Ukraine and NATO.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/29/nuclear-brinkmanship-in-russia-today-a-strategic-narrative-analysis/

Climate change cannot be tackled by capitalist ecological policies of financial institutions and Western states but socio-economic justice and postcolonial epistemes.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/20/anthroprocene-or-capitalocene-navigating-the-politics-of-climate-change/

To induce successes in transitional justice, traumatic memory is mechanised resulting in oversimplification of relations.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/08/traumatic-memory-and-historical-narratives/

Despite, but also due to, Europe's unprecedented security landscape, the 2023 NATO Summit followed a familiar ritualized script that eclipsed any theatrical performances.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/06/predictability-in-an-unpredictable-world-ritual-and-the-nato-summit-in-vilnius/

Narrow definitions of genocide facilitate its continuation, as evidenced by Israel's ongoing physical, economic, and cultural destruction of the Palestinian society.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/07/01/destruction-colonialism-and-capital-genocidal-perspectives-on-palestine/

The discourse surrounding the military adoption of EDTs and its etymological implications highlight how the topic seems to generate more insecurity than security.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/06/17/emerging-and-disruptive-technologies-new-weapons-in-the-making/

By injecting reflexivity into explorations of human interactions, popular culture as a site for diplomatic studies challenges the elitist thinking that IR grapples with.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/06/10/alien-no-more-the-promise-of-popular-culture-for-the-study-of-diplomacy/

The spread of disinformation campaigns challenges the integrity of public discourse, democratic processes, and social harmony.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/06/04/artificial-influence-exploring-ais-impact-on-political-and-social-realities/

Cuban intelligence adeptly evolved post-Cold War by prioritizing information acquisition and alliances to safeguard its national interests.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/05/31/cuban-intelligence-after-the-cold-war-a-case-study-in-adaptation-and-influence/

The contradiction between China's discourse on and practices of sovereignty constitutes a form of 'organized hypocrisy', explicable by the logic of capitalist expansion.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/05/27/sovereignty-with-chinese-characteristics-norms-in-a-changing-world-order/

Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/05/17/the-anomaly-of-democracy-why-securitization-theory-fails-to-explain-january-6th/

The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/05/04/preventing-apocalyptic-futures-the-need-for-alternatives-to-development/

China had the calculations of authority and timing wrong in gifting pandas to Taiwan, turning Taiwanese sentiment against trust and goodwill toward the mainland.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/30/cross-strait-authority-dynamics-and-panda-diplomacy-gift-giving-rituals/

Patriarchal values fuel conflict, confine Iranian women to home, and impact their security, driving some to choose self-immolation. Yet, some also find agency in that.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/24/turning-domestic-into-political-the-case-of-female-self-immolation-in-iran/

Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina show fundamental issues in the international efforts of peace-building and transitional justice during the post-war reconstruction period.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/20/transitional-justice-and-peacebuilding-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/

The continuation of Latin American populism will likely produce messianic leaders characterized by beautiful promises that often do not respect the reality of things.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/15/populist-transition-the-cases-of-venezuela-and-ecuador/

The Sudanese Civil War shows that mechanisms by which coups come to resemble ‘peace-inducing shocks’ are easily interrupted by ‘spoilers’ who oppose the terms of peace.

https://www.e-ir.info/2024/04/13/do-coups-detat-influence-peace-negotiations-during-civil-war/