On January 3, 2026, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were forcibly apprehended following a United States (U.S.) intervention in Caracas, Venezuela’s […]
Žyma: Security
The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States
A blunt assertion of political intent that rides roughshod over the sensibilities of friend and foe alike, the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the […]
The Security Council Resolutions on Western Sahara and Gaza: Is Decolonisation in Danger?
The normalisation of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara by the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as envisaged by Resolution 2797, adopted at the end of […]
Dissent and Alarm under the National Security Law
Travelling via metro in the evening of 26th November, the blaze caught all passengers’ eyes in disbelief near the Tai Po Market Station. The sheer […]
Taiwan’s Quest for Ontological Security in Somaliland
A strand of the literature on de facto states emphasizes that de facto states’ foreign policy aims to ensure both physical security and recognition (Berg […]
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Nile Basin Security
Water has been an important natural resource since the beginning of civilization. It is one of many resources studied in the field of International Relations, from a […]
Is Patriotism Just Obedience? Hong Kong Under the National Security Law
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. On June 30, 2020, the Chinese government imposed […]
The EU’s Role as a Global Security Actor
The end of the Cold War was followed by a range of inter-state and civil wars, fuelling instability worldwide. The shocking events of the Rwandan […]