Davide Genini
Switzerland held the first Ukraine Peace Summit in June 2024. After several peace proposals, the Summit marked the first significant diplomatic step towards a 'comprehensive, just and lasting' peace in Ukraine. Davide Genini examines the main results of the Summit, placing them in the context of an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape Read more
Ruairidh Brown
The International University Campus is a site of relationality, write Ruairidh J Brown and Kerstin Tomiak. It a space of cultural and political interchange and creation of co-constituted knowledge. This challenges the traditional view in International Relations of Higher Education as a mere tool of soft power. Read more
Mahmoud Javadi
The narratives within the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) require amplification to ensure the Treaty’s success. Mahmoud Javadi examines statements made by TPNW state parties during the 2023 United Nations First Committee Read more
Bernardo Jurema
Bernardo Jurema places the recent BRICS expansion into appropriate historical context. It is, he argues, a project to de-westernise the world, opening up new possibilities, including de-colonialisation along the lines of previous historical attempts. It may not be everything that is needed, but it is a significant step forwards Read more
Mahmoud Javadi
The global significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) hinges on its universality. Mahmoud Javadi presents three interconnected strategies — glorification, securitisation, and weaponisation — to move past the challenge of ‘peak universalisation’ Read more
Angelos Chryssogelos
When thinking about populism in world politics, much mainstream opinion sticks to a stereotypical view of populism as a uniform phenomenon that poses a mortal threat to the international order. Angelos Chryssogelos argues that its relationship with foreign policy and the international order is much more nuanced Read more
Diogo Vieira Ferreira
Space technology sees increased use in warfare. This has generated great concern for the European Union’s capacity to maintain a stable space policy. Diogo Vieira Ferreira argues that the effective development of European space policy requires the participation and input of the so-called ‘Outermost Regions’ as strategic actors Read more
Rachel M. Gisselquist
Demonstrating empirically the Aid Effectiveness Principles' global impact on development is a challenge. But according to Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, and Andrea Vaccaro, the value of these principles lies in mobilising support for normative commitments such as establishing effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions Read more
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