New from St. Antony's International Review Yanis Varoufakis sits down with host Theo Kaiser to discuss this season's topic at hand: Fascism – and its past role and present implications in global politics Global Guide Podcast S1E1: Yanis Varoufakis - tr.ee/5FGB5xGTCk

Germany’s 2025 elections mark a turning point for Europe. With a new conservative Chancellor at the helm, shifting US relations, and a rising far-right opposition, the country faces key challenges—from Ukraine to China to European defense. Read the full analysis on our site.

Episode 2 of The Global Guide about Fascism and caste with surajyengde is now available! Thanks to our host Theo Kaiser and editor Elena Frogameni for their hard work bringing International Affairs off the page: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0QkIA2… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-…

Mariya Heletiy writes for STAIR about peace and ceasefire scenarios in Ukraine, offering insights into what lessons from history tell us a truly sustainable and effective peace would look like. Read more at stairjournal.com/analysis.

My ideas for resolving war in Ukraine

Leonhard Xu takes a bird's eye view of the state of American hegemony during Trump's first 100 days (so far). Give it a read by visiting stairjournal.com/commentary!

📢Call for Papers für unsere diesjährige studentische Fachtagung 📢🥳🎉 Diese findet unter dem Titel "Sozialwissenschaften in Zeiten des Zusammenbruchs" vom 5. bis 7. September 2025 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum statt. Hier geht es zum Call: dngps.de/fachtagung2025/

South Asian youth "have “embraced” and redefined derogatory terms, reshaping the domestic political landscape in their respective countries by spinning the state-sanctioned discourse on its head." Read our latest by Taqbir Huda and S. Ali: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/3/28…

"The strategic emphasis is no longer on controlling fossil fuel reserves but on governing electricity systems... the U.S. risks falling behind... in an emerging electrostate-led order." - William Rawlings, in STAIR's latest op-ed: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/5/19…

"Neither India nor Pakistan appears to be operating under a coherent doctrine of deterrence. What we are witnessing is not strategic calculation but symbolic tit-for-tat behavior, now extending beyond security matters into trade." From Shreya Margale: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/5/19…

"...the erosion of soft power is not merely symbolic; it could limit America’s ability to build coalitions, shape norms, and maintain a consent-based international leadership rooted in moral and intellectual authority." Shakthi de Silva in STAIR's latest: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/5/22…

Check out our first in a series of recaps of the Oxford School of Global & Area Studies Taiwan Studies Seminar Series hosted by Senior Fellow Dr. Bo-jiun Jing. We begin with Noah Smith's discussion of a conversation with Robyn Klingler Vidra about startup capitalism in East Asia: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/6/11…

My article 'After Liberalism, After Fascism?', examining the 'postliberal' movement, has just been published with St. Antony's International Review: ingentaconnect.com/contentone/sta…

To close out write-ups of our Taiwan lecture series in collaboration with Oxford School of Global & Area Studies, we invite you to check out Noah Smith's conversation with Dr. Wei-Ting Yen of Academia Sinica, Taiwan about the global governance of COVID-19: stairjournal.com/oped/2025/8/6/…