International Affairs
Volume 101, Issue 1 (January 2025)
ISSN: 0020-5850
Content:
Special section: Soft balancing in the regions: causes, characteristics and consequences
1. Soft balancing in the regions: causes, characteristics and consequences
2. The EU’s soft balancing governance model: origins, characteristics and prospects
for the future
3. The positive externalities of US–China institutional balancing in the Indo-Pacific
4. Two-dimensional soft balancing in central Asia and the emerging regional order
5. The evolution of soft balancing in infomal institutions : the case of BRICS
Articles
1. Vietnam and nuclear security: a case for norm isolation
2. Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia’s conflicted digital economy
1. Sovereignty, self-determination and the contending logics of territorial distribution
2. Gender and cultural violence: feminist perspectives on Islamic State’s heritage destruction
3. Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump
4. Civilization as a concept in foreign policy
5. The politics of digital recognition of states
6. Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-19
7. Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
8. Analysing feminist foreign policy: towards the next agenda
9. Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war
Policy papers
1. ‘Ice sheet conservation’ and international discord: governing (potential) glacial geoengineering in Antarctica
2. UK aid is failing: suggestions for an impactful, coherent and globally aware development practice