Donald Trump’s presidency resists conventional categorisation. Analyses that treat him as a populist demagogue, an institutional stress test, or a media performer capture only fragments […]
Žyma: Politics
Biased Doctors? The Politics of Neutrality in Medical Humanitarianism
Defined as the “provision of limited forms of medicine by clinically trained medical practitioners in emergency situations” (Allen 2018, 207), medical humanitarianism is closely tied to […]
India and the Politics of Recognition
The first official visit by a Taliban leader, Afghan Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, to New Delhi, signalled India’s cautious re-engagement with the Taliban-led […]
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 […]
Securitization and Exceptionalism in Environmental Politics
Environmental issues are frequently depicted as a significant security risk and an apocalyptic catastrophe, threatening all life on Earth (Žižek, 2010). The nascent discourse of […]