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Threat Perception in International Relations: The Neglected Dimension of Leaders’ On-Going Experience

And like other leaders who faced grave danger before, his subjective account of what it felt like to experience danger is helpful in gaining a crucial perspective on leaders, threat perception, and ...
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Defending a Partner: Air Defense as Diplomacy in Israel–UAE Relations

In late April 2026, Axios reported that Israel had deployed an Iron Dome air defense battery to the United Arab Emirates ...
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Opinion – Multilateralism’s Collapse Under Trump and the Call for Global South Pluriverse

As Charvet and Mota argue, multilateralism and international cooperation exist, as no nation can be shielded from global ...
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Review – Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health

The Global Fight for Women's Health By Sophie Harman Virago Books, 2024. Harman’s Sick of It is an important examination of ...
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Confucius Institutes in Argentina and China’s Soft Power Strategy

One of the most emblematic tools in this strategy has been the creation and dissemination of Confucius Institutes (CIs), ...
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Is Continued US-Iran Hostility Inevitable? Rereading Walt’s ‘Revolution and War’ Thirty Years Later

There is one sense, though, in which continued U.S.-Iranian hostility ever since 1979 is not understandable. In his masterful ...
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Interview – Gillian Youngs

It is characteristic of all four power structures identified in Susan Strange’s model of states and markets – security, ...
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Hezbollah’s Hemispheric Backup: Strategic Redundancy in South America

Rarely does the Western Hemisphere—let alone South America—enter the discussion. And when it does, the framing tends to ...
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Now Recruiting: Commissioning Editors

Being a Commissioning Editor with E-International Relations is a dynamic and rewarding volunteer role for anyone who enjoys ...
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What I Learned from Geolocating 1,000 Satellite Images

In the autumn of 2024, I set down to create a unique dataset on war and armed conflict. I pored over hundreds of satellite ...