Africa is increasingly becoming an arena for geopolitical competition over its resources and,
in the last two decades, has seen many emerging powers such as China, India, Russia …

Why are allies so unpredictable? In American Allies in Times of War, Stéfanie von Hlatky
tackles this question by examining military cooperation between the United States and its …

ABSTRACT The Russian invasion of Ukraine significantly altered the security dynamics in
the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region, placing Moldova and Georgia, two frontline states on …

This article analyzes contemporary Turkey-European Union (EU) relations through the
lenses of international relations (IR) theory. After providing a brief overview of the history of …

In the contemporary Asia-Pacific context, the fault lines leading to the Thucydides trap can
be attributed to the continuing strategic competition between a seemingly declining United …

Russian Realism analyzes Russian contemporary geopolitical thinking, or realism, and
explores the notion of Derzhava as the foundation of Russian realism. The author defines …

Bandwagoning by stealth refers to a situation when a government of a small state tries to
accommodate a great power turned to aggressor amid a strong public opposition. We …

Why do states overestimate threats and, as a result, mount disproportionately strong and
therefore costly balancing responses? To answer this question, we build a neoclassical …

This paper aims to analyse the growing enlargement of the spheres of competition from the
Middle East into the Horn of Africa. It does so by using insights from regional order and …

Japan's space security commands attention as the country shifts toward internationalism in a
world returned to great power competition. Using the framing from neoclassical realism, this …