Ra Mason and Elizabeth Cobbett
Djibouti’s position, across the Bab al-Mandab from war-torn Yemen and adjacent to a narrow chokepoint at the gateway to the Gulf of Aden, makes it one of the most important strategic locations on the planet. …
Louise Curran, Khalid Nadvi, Sangeeta Khorana
Trade policy has rarely had such a high profile. From the ill-fated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to the long-drawn-out Brexit negotiations, trade negotiations have become increasingly subject to public debate. Yet much of the literature focuses on successful agreements, with little attention paid to stalled talks. At the…
Krisztina Csortea
Every issue of International Affairs features a comprehensive book review section which assesses the latest writing in international studies. In this, the latest in our Top 5 Books series, Book Reviews Editor Krisztina Csortea presents her picks from the November 2021 issue. …
Joseph Hills
As both an academic discipline and a subject of public debate, International Relations often rests on shared assumptions that aren’t as solid as they first appear. Drawing on articles from the September 2021 issue, I highlight five myths that, while pervasive in academic and policy discussion, can be misleading. …
Navnita Chadha Behera
Decolonizing the discipline of international relations is imperative both for academics and policy practitioners. Decolonization shows how certain historically privileged ways of understanding international politics produce a disconnect between how scholars and policy-makers make sense of the world and how people globally practice their lives. …
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Xue Gong, Anna Powles, Rajesh Rajagopalan and Tomohiko Satake
As public debate continues in western capitals about the impact of the AUKUS defense pact on relations between Europe and the United States and their attempts to balance China, an area that remains consistently neglected is the treaty’s impact on regional security and politics in the Indo-Pacific. …
Joseph Hills
The September special issue of International Affairs explores the impacts of deglobalization in international politics. While deglobalization generally refers to a decline in global interconnectedness and interdependence, the implications of such wide ranging changes can be complex to say the least. …
Carla Norrlöf
Higher education is supposed to be the great social equalizer. Within the academy, meritocracy is seen as the ultimate vehicle for social mobility and ought to level the playing field for healthy competition. …
Krisztina Csortea
Every issue of International Affairs features a comprehensive book review section which assesses the latest writing in international studies. In this, the latest in our Top 5 Books series, Book Reviews Editor Krisztina Csortea presents her picks from the September 2021 issue. …
Whitney Grespin
In 2017, in the course of PhD field research I travelled to Afghanistan — a country I had worked in back in 2010–11 as part of a NATO Combined Security Transition Command (CSTSC-A) military capacity-building programme. At the time of my research travel there were 8,448 American military personnel on…
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