11 February 2024

Check This Out: Global International Relations (GIR) and Worlding Beyond the West

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"These two reform movements have issued direct theoretical challenges to the Euro-centrism of conventional IR scholarship, and over the past decade and more, they have yielded a body of research that has greatly expanded the remit of what we call “International Relations.” . . .

On the Pedagogy of a Truly International Relations

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". . .As I detail in my article in the American Political Science Review (Utrata 2023)there are many reasons why one might object to colonies on the Moon. 
These include 
  • the enormous emissions in the midst of the climate catastrophe (Rubenstein 2022; Utrata 2021); 
  • the continued dispossession of indigenous lands and displacement of vulnerable communities for rocket launch sites (Sammler and Lynch 2021) and 
  • entrenchment of coloniality and colonial relationships (Trevino 2020; Bawaka Country et al. 2020); or 
  • the risk of geopolitical conflict and militarization of space (Deudney 2020). 
However ill-advised colonizing outer space might be, it is often assumed to be fundamentally different from earthly colonialism for one key reason: outer space is actually empty. . ."

What’s Wrong with Outer Space Colonialism?

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Opinion – A Geopolitically Sustainable Green Energy Agenda

Corey Lee Bell and Elena Collinson • Feb 7 2024 • Articles

2023 was a year in which the climate change agenda brought nations together, but again proved unable to shake off deeper competing interests.

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IR’s Great Derangement: Climate Change Coverage in IR Journals 2017–2021

George Moody • Feb 6 2024 • Articles

When treated with requisite seriousness, the effects of climate change and the need to address it supersede many traditional preoccupations of the field.

George Lawson

Thinking Global Podcast – George Lawson (Part One)

E-International Relations • Feb 5 2024 • Features

George Lawson speaks about conceptualising revolution, comparative historical sociology, anatomies of revolution and more, in the first of a two-part series on Revolution.

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Review – The Frontline

Taras Kuzio • Feb 3 2024 • Features

Serhii Plokhy’s collection of essays details the history of Ukraine and its tumultuous relationship with Russia, but lacks sufficient discussion on contemporary tensions.

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Conspiracy Theory and International Relations

Tim Aistrope • Feb 1 2024 • Articles

The opaque nature of international politics exerts limits on the available evidence, yet this cannot mean abandoning the task of judging between better and worse claims.

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Do Human Rights Protect or Threaten Security?

Caitlin Hoyland • Jan 31 2024 • Essays

Human rights discourse is premised upon the deleterious assumption that humans are separate from and supreme to nature.

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The Trojan War in Crimea

Sveta Yefimenko • Jan 31 2024 • Articles

Russia’s Crimea policy is about history, religion, literature, myth, and imperial as well as military glory – which is a long-winded way of saying it’s about identity.

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Opinion – The Broader Significance of the ICJ’s Ruling on Genocide in Gaza

Thomas Obel Hansen • Jan 30 2024 • Articles

The ICJ’s ruling challenges the narrative of the conflict presented by Western powers and the core premises of the US-designed rules-based international order.

Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel

Thinking Global Podcast – Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel

E-International Relations • Jan 29 2024 • Features

Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel speak about their book ‘Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States’, causal factors of the conflict, NATO, war crimes, and more.

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China’s Silence on the Centennial of Lenin’s Death

Klaus Heinrich Raditio • Jan 29 2024 • Articles

In China, Lenin – the political figure who created the ill-fated Soviet Union – will not enjoy the same approval as Marx, Mao or even Xi.

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