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Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu
This contribution revisits Shih's mission of relational IR and the Chinese relational school from the perspective of the parallel between quantum...
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Refugee voices vs. humanitarian choices: how much can refugee-led organizations redefine power and agency in post-2019 Lebanon?
In the humanitarian landscape, especially post-COVID-19, there has been a notable pivot towards inclusivity and participatory methodologies,...
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Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–1945
This paper explores the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, spanning from 1842 to 1945, within the context of capitalism and governance....
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Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?
The study explores and compares common themes in Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s foreign policies vis-à-vis China. It investigates whether there have...
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Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies
This article proposes an alternative domestic-level explanation as to why has Brazil not developed a robust nuclear industry like India if both...
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IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR
I read Shih’s intervention as an invitation to pay attention to relationality in not only ontological but also epistemological terms. I begin by...
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International LGBTQ+ politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?
While the discipline of IR has expanded its inquiry into LGBTQ+ politics, it is still missing an analysis of LGBTQ+ issues in the globalized ‘risk...
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Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism
Over the last two decades, LGBTQ+ individuals in Russia have been using digital media to communicate and mobilize, making up for their lack of...
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The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study
Over the past decades, the level of regulation of fixed-term contracts has been in flux. Many reforms deregulating these contracts were followed by a...
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How does the EU seek to encourage change in national justice systems? A framework of coordinative and coercive Europeanization at work
A decade of crises has changed the EU’s modes of governance and power relations between institutions. By the same token, the rule of law crisis has...
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Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudinal data
The left–right scale is widely assumed to be a common space, a joint yardstick that facilitates political communication. Aggregate voter perceptions...
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Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression: how crises shape Europeanization dynamics in EU foreign policy
The European Union’s response to Russia’s war of aggression has run contrary to expectations of EU foreign policy inaction and incoherence as well as...
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Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective
Greece experienced near political implosion between 2010 and 2012 with large-scale demonstrations, strikes, riots, damage to public and private...
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The science of world order
“The science of international politics is in its infancy.” E.H. Carr opened The Twenty Years’ Crisis with a tone both hopeful and lamenting. He...
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Détente, the rebirth of anti-communism, and the rise of a transatlantic ‘neo-conservative’ network: the case of the Cercle
The so-called Cercle , Cercle Pinay or Cercle Violet emerged in the 1960s as an informal discussion group of senior politicians, publicists,...
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Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity
In February 2017, Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni set up three upright bus wrecks at a central square of Dresden, thereby recalling a scene from...
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Referendums and political-institutional convergence in European democracies: A time-differencing configurational analysis
This study assesses democratic changes against the background of an increased use of referendums in European parliamentary systems. Existing studies...
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Shared adversaries in the Anglo-American Special Relationship: from the Cold War to contemporary threats
The Anglo-American Special Relationship has been at its most vibrant when the two countries have shared a common adversary. The Cold War...
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Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’
This study addresses the role of storytelling in making sense of, sha**, and giving direction to US foreign policy in relation to China from 2011...