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In the past two decades, stories of global disaster and destruction have surged in popular-cultural media: Moira Young’s YA (Young Adult) Blood…
Just War theory has been at the heart of discussion of the US/Israel war on Iran over the last couple of weeks.…
Who had it right? Was it George Orwell who called sports “war minus the shooting”, or Nelson Mandela who said that sports…
There is a parallel universe where Donald Trump is the grand strategist of his own imagination. In this world, Trump remains bombastic,…
Two months after US President Donald Trump initiated the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, the costs of the war are…
Thinking Global Podcast – T.V. Paul (Part Two) – E-International Relations Thinking Global On this week’s episode of the…
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…
