Russia The Russian aggression to Ukraine: from imperial utopia to decaying dystopia What’s the imperial myth? It’s the mythological narration of a past that becomes the foundation of national identity, indicates, and legitimises the sphere of influence where the empire ⋙
geopolitics Back to the beginning? Discussing the return of Geopolitics in IR by Antonina Kseinova, Federica Pizzo, Felix Jahn. The Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA) and the Italian Standing Group of International Relations (SGRI) welcomed the new year with the ⋙
Interviews Interviews with Scholars at Risk in Italy: Gökhan Demir What are the challenges faced by at-risk scholars abroad? Starting from this question, this interview aims to give an idea to the administrative sections of universities, who are unfamiliar with ⋙
Turkey Authoritarianism, Occupation and Resistance: Boğaziçi University On 19 January 2022, Boğaziçi University’s elected deans of three faculties (Özlem Berk Albachten, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; R. Metin Ercan, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences; and ⋙
Africa A major shift? Biden, Africa and (the stagnation of) the US security policy The inauguration of the Biden presidency in January 2021 was filled with high hopes with respect to a renewal of the US security policy in Africa. Observers and analysts envisaged ⋙
Debate Re-Thinking the EU’s Contentious Role in Central Asia’s Borderlands 2021 has been a restless year for Central Asia – from Sadyr Japarov’s rise to the presidency in Kyrgyzstan to interethnic tensions in Kazakhstan and low-level violence in Tajikistan’s ⋙
migrants The Symbolic Wall: Notes from the Field In this piece, criminologist Ellen Van Damme, who is doing research on female migration from Honduras to the United States (USA), at the Center for the Study of International Migration ⋙
Interviews A matter of context: power, conflict and climate change. A conversation with Tor Benjaminsen From the security crisis in the Sahel to the migration flows in the Mediterranean, from past and present civil wars to wildfires and flooding in Europe, a specter is haunting ⋙
Afghanistan China in Afghanistan: risks, interests and regional politics After nearly 20 years the United States and NATO withdrew their troops from Afghanistan at the end of August, abandoning their Afghan allies at the mercy of the Taliban, who ⋙
Afghanistan Betrayal in Kabul. Staccato reactions to Western self-regard Failure, debacle, fiasco. These are the most frequently used terms in the English language mediascape to assess the US and NATO performance following the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan. ⋙
