How trans visibility became a trap
I renewed my passport the day after Trump won again. It wouldn’t expire for years, but I did it anyway, along with many trans people I knew who could scrape…
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Eurasia
European Union
Features
Foreign Policy
Interviews
NATO
Russia-Ukraine War
Turkey
World
World News
Interview – Evren Balta
Evren Balta explores Turkey’s hybrid foreign policy, the entanglement of domestic and global politics amidst high-profile conflicts, and calls for a plural vision of IR.
Features
Geopolitics
Global Economy
Governance
International Monetary Fund
International Organisations
Reviews
World
World News
Review – Cooperative Complexity
Clark reframes global lending as inter-organizational politics, showing how rivalry boosts performance — though broader borrower strategies merit deeper inquiry.
Diasporas
Features
Migration
Nation-Building
Nationalism
Nations
The Thinking Global Podcast
World
World News
Thinking Global Podcast – Harris Mylonas
Harris Mylonas speaks about nations, nationalism, nation-building and the politics of diaspora policy.
Review – The Wokisme Controversy
Campagne’s study offers a rich account of France’s wokisme debate through a Franco-American lens, though deeper analysis of anti-woke discourse meaning is lacking.
ALBA-TCP
Colonialism
Features
Interviews
Latin America
Peru
Regional Integration
UNASUR
World
World News
Interview – Daniele Benzi
Daniele Benzi calls for rethinking Latin American regionalism through global history and structural critique, urging scholars to unthink inherited paradigms.
Interview – Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam calls for globally rooted, justice-driven AI ethics to resist algorithmic bias and reclaim human agency in an increasingly coded world.
Causal Analysis
Causality
Features
International Relations Theory
Knowledge Production
Research Methods
Reviews
World
World News
Review – Causal Inquiry in International Relations
Humphreys and Suganami offer a rich, thoughtful critique of causal inquiry in IR, though their approach may underplay how abstract theories shape concrete explanations.
Civilizations
Eurocentrism
Features
Global Governance
International Relations Theory
Multiplexity
Reviews
World
World News
World Order
Review – The Once and Future World Order
Acharya reframes the world order as multicivilizational and co-created, though his global claims would benefit from clearer links between ideas and practice.