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The idea for this article emerged during an interview I was conducting with Olena Afanasieva, head of the NGO Center for Cultural…

In the months leading up to the brief but violent 12-Day War in June 2025, when U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted Iranian…

Rhys Machold is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Through engagements with…

Contemporary debates on Indo-Pacific security often begin with an implicit assumption: that credible deterrence necessitates a formal alliance structure—either a bilateral one…

In a 2024 article, Navigating New Realities: Central Asia’s Role in Contemporary Geopolitics, my co-authors and I argued that the Central Asia…

Contemporary debates on Indo-Pacific security often begin with an implicit assumption: that credible deterrence necessitates a formal alliance structure—either a bilateral one…

The conflict between the United States and Israel against Iran continues. The Iranian regime, despite the substantial damage it has sustained, is…

Public acceptance and tolerance of refugees have become increasingly politicised across the Western world, with refugees often portrayed as a threat to…

The history of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a faith-based international body founded in 1969 in Rabat, Morocco, is intimately intertwined…

For much of the post-Cold War era, globalisation was presented not merely as a trajectory but as a universal pathway, one that…