The International Spectator

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🇪🇺 Balancing Rights, Interests and Values: How #EU Institutions Use Law in #EUForeignPolicy

🔍 Read it here: shorturl.at/Sly85

✒️ @luigilonardo.bsky.social (University of Luxembourg)

⚠️#openaccessarticle

🇪🇺EU Policy towards #Ukraine: Entering Geopolitical Competition over European Order

🔍loom.ly/pvQxlsA

✒️ @kristiraik.bsky.social
@stevenblockmans.bsky.social , Anna Osypchuk & Anton Suslov

Super glad to see the review of my book #unexpectedrevolutionaries @cornellupress.bsky.social ☺️ Thanks to @intlspectator.bsky.social for hosting it

The Paradoxes of Procedural Power? Opportunities and Constraints in the EU’s Nuclear Non-proliferation Policy Published in The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2026)

My review of Manuel Herrera's book "The European Union’s nuclear non-proliferation policy : performance and contestation" is out with @intlspectator.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️ New book review!

🌍 Europe as ideological resource: European integration ad far right legitimation in France and Italy,
@mlorimer.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✒️ Marianna Griffini

⚠️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)

⚠️ 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

⭐️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

⚠️ 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

⚠️ 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

⚠️ New book review!

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

🔗 Link in bio!

✒️ @ludovicacast.bsky.social

⚠️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)

⚠️ 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

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

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

🔍 Discover more: loom.ly/pP9DXR8

✒️ Ana Kumarasamy
@lancasteruni.bsky.social

⚠️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)

⚠️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)

❗️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)

⚠️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)

The International Spectator's team would like to wish you a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates!

⚠️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)

⚠️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)

🎄The International Spectator team would like to wish you #happyfestivities and a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates! 🎁

⚠️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)

⚠️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

🔍 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...

⚠️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)

⚠️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)

⚠️ 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

⚠️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

📢 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