Crisis of Secrecy: The Weaponisation of Ambiguity in Covert Action
Exploiting the erosion of plausible deniability, Russia leverages ambiguity and exposure to intensify confusion in adversaries and expand its influence.
Strategic Trade Between Divergent Economies: The Korea-Singapore FTA
Strategic institutional flexibility, elite agency, and sectoral alignment enabled convergence between chaebol-driven South Korea and Singapore’s state-led technocracy.
Beyond Eurocentrism: International Development and the Success/Failure Binary
Development theory requires a shift to a self-reflexive, decolonial approach to avoid reproducing the Eurocentric biases inherent in the Success/Failure binary.
Is Patriotism Just Obedience? Hong Kong Under the National Security Law
Historical precedents, symbolic instruments and contemporary strategies converge to shape Hongkongers’ understanding of sovereignty, identity, and patriotism.
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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.
From Treaty Ports to BRI Courts: China’s Legal Statecraft, Then and Now
China’s BRI-era ‘one-stop’ dispute-resolution model, centred on the China International Commercial Court (CICC) reverses treaty-port extraterritoriality by turning legal pluralism from an imposed constraint into invited jurisdiction through China-led venues.
Hybrid Threats and the Evolution of Russian Sabotage
Present-day Russian sabotage mirrors Soviet-era doctrine of escalation and target selection but harnesses cyber-enabled technologies and emerging Western vulnerabilities.