Category: International Relations & Diplomacy
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Beach, Sun, Sangria … Think Tanks?
The School for ThinkTankers 2025, organized by ‘On Think Tanks,’ was a five-day workshop designed to equip young professionals with skills for think tank leadership. The program covered governance, fundraising, policy influence, and communications, with insights from experts. Key lessons included the importance of adaptability, strategic foresight, and informal exchanges in strengthening think tank impact,…
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Policy Paper: The Cost of Unpredictability
Main question: how can policymakers address and navigate current geopolitical situation? Argument: Due to the absence of a central authority in the international system, states must rely on self-help. Conclusion: Policymakers should therefore adopt a hedging strategy by diversifying sector-specific partnerships in critical domains such as energy security, supply chains, and digital infrastructure, as heavy…
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Rise of the Rest
In a time of geopolitical uncertainty whether grounded in historical ties, economic relations, pacts, treaties, or a combination of these. This article examines the influential role that Ireland lays in its relationship with the US and how it can leverage this position to promote democratic values within the international system. It challenges the assumption that…
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The Global Disorder Cycle
Main question: Is the world really oscillating between eras of recession and expansion, or is this logic purely linear and the result of chance? Argument: The various periods of recession across history are not the result of some events, but the reflection of a cycling logic throughout times. Conclusion: This logic will never stop :…
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From Moscow to Caracas
In an era of rapidly developing social media, cyber threats such as manipulation, fake news, and disinformation are also expanding as elements of planned psychological and information campaigns—tools of hybrid warfare used to build influence and sustain autocratic power. The article describes cooperation in this area between a “teacher” and a “student”: namely, Russia, which…
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Hostage Diplomacy
Why are foreign nationals increasingly detained not as criminals, but as leverage? Hostage diplomacy endures because it delivers strategic returns often enough to make repetition rational in a fragmented international system. What is taking shape is not simple disorder, but a harder political landscape in which human vulnerability itself becomes a currency of negotiation.
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Allies in Uncertain Times
Main question: How has the EU responded to perceived unpredictability in U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration? Argument: Unpredictability erodes credibility, generating alliance uncertainty incentivizing allies to diversify partnerships rather than abandon existing alliances. Conclusion: In response to unpredictability in U.S. foreign policy, the EU has not abandoned the transatlantic alliance but has instead…
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China’s Reactions to US Belligerence under Trump
Main question: How has China reacted, both “on paper” (diplomatically) and in practice (strategically), to recent US belligerence in Greenland, Venezuela and Iran? Argument: The recent international political upheaval many might have thought would benefit China’s own ambitions, but this has not been as clear-cut as it seemed. Conclusion: Instead of expanding its own hard…
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Making Greenland and Venezuela Great Again
The article aims to determine if Trump’s behaviour regarding Venezuela and Greenland fit modern scholarly definitions of Imperialism. Both Venezuela and Greenland show characteristics of economic and geological imperialism. Trump’s behaviour can fit into a imperialism definition, but a lack of consensus on modern imperialism characteristics and other influences unrelated to imperialism makes a definite…
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Editorial of the 2nd report
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