From ‘Dead Aid’ (Moyo, 2010) to ‘Failed Nations’ (Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012) and the ‘Bottom Billion’ (Collier, 2007): a narrative of failure and doom seems […]
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A Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Contradiction in International Politics
This article was shortlisted as part of the 2025 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University Press, Polity, Sage, Bloomsbury, Manchester University Press, Palgrave Macmillan and Bristol University Press. We live in a time when classical dialectical […]
Toward a New Grammar of International Relations
Is the world unipolar, multipolar, or sliding back into a new bipolarity? These categories dominate contemporary debates in international relations. They shape how policymakers describe […]
US Bombing of Iran and the Transition to a New International Legal Order
In the wake of intensifying international suspicion regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions, in June 2025 United States conducted a series of precision bombings against three of […]
Interview with the chairman of KazAID during the international press tour in Astana
As part of the international press tour, the KazAID Board Chairman Arken Arystanov gave an interview to representatives of leading media outlets from Azerbaijan, Belgium, […]
Opinion – Trump, Shattered Diplomacy and International Society
Diplomacy is an intricate phenomenon. In his seminal work on the topic, Adam Watson (1982: 11) accentuates that diplomacy concerns the complex and multifaceted dialogue […]
The End of US Democracy and the Implications for International Relations
Over about a decade of teaching a course on “U.S. Politics and Foreign Policy” at the University of Sydney I posed a question each year […]
Exploring the World of the International Election Observer
The Electoral Knowledge Network typically defines two categories of election observation. First, short-term observation (STO), generally encompassing election climate, preceding days, voting day and the […]