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Italian journal of international affairs edited quarterly by Istituto Affari Internazionali and published by Taylor&Francis.
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⚠️New #article online!

🛡️A Vanishing Normative Power? The Changing Dynamics of #EUArmsExports: Trade, Geopolitics and Ethics from the First #GulfWar to the War in Ukraine

🔍 Find out more: loom.ly/sEklxzg

✒️Chiara Bonaiuti (newcastleuni.bsky.social) & Luca Bortolotti (University of Bologna)
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
⚠️ New book review!

🌍 A new Cold War : US-China relations in the 21st century, Zeno Leoni, brisunipress.bsky.social

🔗 shorturl.at/6oRlP

✒️ @francescolizzi.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
⭐️Exciting news!

The winning article for the TIS Global Voices Award 2025 has been chosen, and it will have full access!

🏆Congratulations to ‘From Engaging to Containing China: US Attempts to Fill Power-role Gaps (2000–2018)’ by Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas!

Read it here🔗 shorturl.at/UKqrF
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
⚠️ New book review!

🌍 The once and future world order: why global civilization will survive the declin of the West, Amitav Acharya @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✒️Sanket Kumar Prajapati
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 PM
⚠️ New book review!

🌍 World of the right: radical conservatism and global order, @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social et al. @universitypress.cambridge.org

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✒️Laura Wolters
February 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
⚠️ New book review!

☢️The European Union’s nuclear non-proliferation policy: performance and contestation, Manuel Herrera

🔗 Link in bio!

✒️ @ludovicacast.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 11:49 AM
⚠️New #article online!

🌐 A Demand-side Explanation of Offshore #Autocratic Assistance:

🔍 shorturl.at/WvxcN

✒️ Diego Telias (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Luciano Quispe (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) & Stefano Palestini (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
⚠️ New book review!

⚖️Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: between Justice and Sovereignty, Delia Duong Wendel (dukepress.bsky.social)

🔗 www.theinternationalspectator.com/post/book-re...

✒️Beatrice Morani
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🗑️ Beyond discards: Navigating #security and #space through waste in Postwar #Beirut

🔍 Discover more: loom.ly/pP9DXR8

✒️ Ana Kumarasamy
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🛡️A Vanishing Normative Power? The Changing Dynamics of #EUArmsExports: Trade, Geopolitics and Ethics from the First #GulfWar to the War in Ukraine

🔍 Find out more: loom.ly/sEklxzg

✒️Chiara Bonaiuti (newcastleuni.bsky.social) & Luca Bortolotti (University of Bologna)
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
⚠️New #article online!

⚖️ Sanctions Litigation before the #EuropeanUnion’s Court of Justice

🔍 What motivates individuals and entities to challenge EU sanctions before the CJEU? shorturl.at/Bi2CP

✒️ Francesca Finelli (uni.lu)
January 12, 2026 at 12:21 PM
❗️Read our #openaccess #article!

🇪🇺Constraints, Dilemmas and Challenges for EU Foreign Policy in #Venezuela

🔍 shorturl.at/oUf4U

✒️ ayusoanna.bsky.social (cidobbarcelona.bsky.social), tizbreda.bsky.social (acleddata.bsky.social), Elsa Lilja Gunnarsdottir & Marianne Riddervold (nupinytt.bsky.social)
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🌐 A Demand-side Explanation of Offshore #Autocratic Assistance:

🔍 shorturl.at/WvxcN

✒️ Diego Telias (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Luciano Quispe (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) & Stefano Palestini (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
January 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
The International Spectator's team would like to wish you a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates!
January 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🧭 #Iran and #CentralAsia: Eurasian #Geopolitics in a Changing World Order

🔍 loom.ly/Fx-mKrk

✒️ Aigerim Altynbek, Edward Wastnidge (@openuniversity.bsky.social) & Adilbek Yermekbayev (a al-Farabi Kazakh National University)
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🛡️ The #SouthCaucasus Reconstructed: Polarity and Regional Security Order after the #NagornoKarabakh War in 2020

🔍 Read it here: shorturl.at/zzqQa

✒️ Narek Sukiasyan & Erik Davtyan (Yerevan State University)
December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎄The International Spectator team would like to wish you #happyfestivities and a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates! 🎁
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🤝Alliance Management and Binding Strategy: Why the #UnitedStates Has Failed to Prevent #Turkey from Strategic Rapprochement with #Russia

🔍 Find out more: shorturl.at/4hSfM

✒️ İsmail Akdoğan (Bursa Technical University)
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🌱Greening the #BeltandRoad Initiative and the #2030Agenda: #China’s #EnvironmentalDiplomacy Discourse in Focus

🔍Is Green BRI driving real progress on climate goals? shorturl.at/w97EL

✒️Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska, Kerry Longhurst & Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk, Civitas University
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔍 Take a look inside our New #Issue!

👉 Focus on Gulf States' mediation as a foreign policy strategy, China’s pivot to South and Central Asia and Changing alignments from the Black to the Caspian Sea, and more!

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/6...
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🌐 #China’s Economic Engagement as Strategic Deterrence in #Afghanistan

🔍 Find out more: loom.ly/t8zaty8

✒️ Nishtha Kaushiki, Victor Sathyadas, Sarita Yadav & Hans Raj (Central University of Punjab)
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🛡️ Joseph Nye’s #SoftPowerTheory and the Dynamics of #China-India Soft Power Competition in #SouthAsia: A Comparative Analysis

🔍 Find out more here: shorturl.at/CKvRe

✒️ Mohammed Nuruzzaman & Noor Mohammad Sarker (North South University)
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
⚠️ New book review!

📗 Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa, G. Denoeux, R. Springborg & H. Alaoui (@lynneriennerpub.bsky.social)

🔗 shorturl.at/SwxGI

✒️ Antonia Ricciardiello
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
⚠️New #article online!

🥇Imane Khelif: Women’s Boxing, Geopolitical Power and Gendered Media Narratives

🔍 Find out more: shorturl.at/SDcQi

✒️ Amara Mahfoud & Kamal Hamidou (Qatar University), Nida Ahmad
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📢 New podcast online!

🔍 What factors shape Gulf states' aid strategies in countries like Lebanon, Sudan, and Tunisia?

🎙️ Altea Pericoli unpacks her #article Understanding #GulfStates#ForeignAid: A Conceptual Framework

🔗 shorturl.at/wIaGL
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM