⚠️New #article online! 🕊️ #Kuwait’s #Humanitarian and Mediation Efforts: A Model for #MiddlePower #NicheDiplomacy 🔍 Discover more: https://loom.ly/wFbXss4#article#Kuwait✒️ Mordechai Chaziza & Carmela Lutmar (University of Haifa)

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🗑️ Beyond discards: Navigating #security and #space through waste in Postwar #Beirut 🔍 Discover more: loom.ly/pP9DXR8 ✒️ Ana Kumarasamy @lancasteruni.bsky.social

🔍 Do you think that an interesting article should be read by everyone? ⚠️The International Spectator is proud to announce the #GlobalVoicesAward 2025! One article published during the year will be granted full access free of charge! 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/xWz7f

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🧭 #Iran and #CentralAsia: Eurasian #Geopolitics in a Changing World Order 🔍 Discover more here: https://loom.ly/Fx-mKrk#openaccessarticle#Iran✒️ Aigerim Altynbek, Edward Wastnidge (@openuniversity.bsky.social) & Adilbek Yermekbayev (a al-Farabi Kazakh National University)

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️ Adhocracy in Action: Gulf #HumanitarianInterventions in #Lebanon 🔍 How have Gulf states’ foreign aid strategies in Lebanon evolved since 2021? Discover more here: shorturl.at/767GO ✒️ Clothilde Facon-Salelles (University of Antwerp)

⭐️ The International Spectator welcomes #NewSubmissions! ✒️ Are you an #author and have an unpublished, original #article or #bookreview? 📩 Submit it to us and start the #peerreview process! 🔎 For more info: https://loom.ly/VqWeT48

⚠️ New #article online! 🌐 The Banality of Normalisation: The Desecuritisation of #Israel’s Aggrandisement in the #MiddleEast 🔍 Find out more: https://loom.ly/sGtUo6I#article#Israel✒️ @maricalc.bsky.social (Leiden University)

⚠️ Read our #openaccesarticle online! 🛡️ #EU Policy towards the #Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Limitations of Mitigation Strategies 🔍 Find out more: shorturl.at/rx3sE ✒️ @sinemacikmese.bsky.social‬ & ‪@soliozel.bsky.social‬ (Kadir Has University) ‬‬

At @iaionline.bsky.social, TIS had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Juan Pablo Laporte, Editorial Director at CARI We discussed editorial collaboration, shared views on international affairs, and exchanged our journals as a shared commitment to fostering the global academic dialogue

⚠️ New book review! 📗 Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions, K. A. Preble & @cnwillis.bsky.social (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) 🔗 Link in bio! ✒️ Ferdinand Arslanian

⚠️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)

🔍 Do you think that an interesting article should be read by everyone? ⚠️TIS is proud to announce the #GlobalVoicesAward 2025! One article published in the journal during the year will be granted full access free of charge to the author! 🔗 shorturl.at/2XFge

⚠️ New book review! 📗 United Nations sanctions regimes and selective security, Thomas Kruiper 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ @drclaraportela.bsky.social

⚠️New #article online! 🌐 #China’s Economic Engagement as Strategic Deterrence in #Afghanistan 🔍 Find out more: https://loom.ly/t8zaty8#article#China✒️ Nishtha Kaushiki, Victor Sathyadas, Sarita Yadav & Hans Raj (Central University of Punjab)

⭐️ The International Spectator welcomes #SpecialIssue proposals for 2027-2028! 💡 If you like the idea, please have a look at our website for more info and the form for #submitting a proposal 🔎 www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

⚠️ New book review! 📗 The Caliph and the Imam: the making of Sunnism and Shiism, T. Matthiesen 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ Giulia Daga

⚠️ New book review! 📗 Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture, P. Trubowitz, B. Burgoon. (ed. @oxunipress.bsky.social) | The wrecking of the liberal world order, V. E. Parsi (ed. Palgrave Macmillan) 🔗 shorturl.at/AiVbS ✒️ Sonia Lucarelli

⭐️ The International Spectator welcomes #NewSubmissions! ✒️ Are you an #author and have an unpublished, original #article or #bookreview? 📩 Submit it to us and start the #peerreview process! 🔎 For more info: https://loom.ly/VqWeT48

⚠️ New book review! 📗 The IPCC and the politics of writing climate change, H. Hughes 🔗 https://loom.ly/vCBRZRE ✒️ Niklas Bremberg

⚠️New #article online! 🌐 From Engaging to Containing #China: #US Attempts to Fill Power-role Gaps (2000-2018) 🔍 What has been the US strategic behaviour towards China's rising relative power? Find out more here: shorturl.at/79IzU ✒️ ‪Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas

⚠️New book review 📗Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, Alaa Tartir @sipri.org @timothyseidel.bsky.social, Tariq Dana 🔗https://loom.ly/jNCyW54 ✒️A.S.

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️ #EUPolicy towards the #IsraelPalestineConflict: The Limitations of #MitigationStrategies 🔍 Find out more here: https://loom.ly/KTpAfqM#openaccessarticle#EUPolicy#IsraelPalestineConflict✒️ @sinemacikmese.bsky.social & Soli Özel (Kadir Has University)

⚠️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: https://loom.ly/sEklxzg#article#EUArmsExports✒️Chiara Bonaiuti @newcastleuni.bsky.social & Luca Bortolotti University of Bologna

🔍 Do you think that an interesting article should be read by everyone? ⚠️The International Spectator is proud to announce the #GlobalVoicesAward 2025! One article published during the year will be granted full access free of charge to the author! 🔗 https://shorturl.at/IRbz5

⚠️New #article online! 🌐The Evolution of Chinese FDI in Europe and Its Implications for Technological Interdependence: A Geoeconomic Perspective 🔍Is Europe prepared for the outcomes of Chinese investment in its green technologies? shorturl.at/MCqQz ✒️Niky Brugnatelli (University of Catania)

⚠️New #article online! 🇪🇺 Politicising #EuropeanIntegration: Emmanuel #Macron, Cleavage Unfreezing and Party System Transformation in #France 🔍 Is EU politicisation transforming French national politics? https://loom.ly/Otc_5iU#article#EuropeanIntegration✒️ Gabriel Goodliffe (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

📢 New podcast online! 🎙️ Giulia Daga unpacks her #article Tolerance as a Legitimation Strategy in Oman’s Political Discourse: From Religious to Foreign Policy Principle 🔗 shorturl.at/HA7I3

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️ From ‘Strategic Indispensability’ to ‘Comprehensive Offers’: Mapping Proposals for the EU’s Offensive Geoeconomic Turn 🔍 How can the EU push for a more assertive geoeconomic strategy? shorturl.at/yVrpu ✒️ Jaša Veselinovič (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social)

⚠️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/xKUZc ✒️ İsmail Akdoğan (Bursa Technical University)

📸Highlights from Naples! 📚 TIS Team is attending the #SISP2025 annual conference! 🏛️ You can find us there until Saturday September 6 at Federico II University, Naples 📩 More info here: shorturl.at/D2kGs

📍Come visit us in Naples TOMORROW! 📚 TIS Team will be attending the #SISP2025 annual conference! 🏛️ You can find us there from 4 to 6 September 2025 at ‪Federico II University 📩 More info here: shorturl.at/D2kGs

🔍 Take a look inside our New #Issue! 👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more! 🔗Available online: shorturl.at/Pt4Ma

📢 New #Issue Online! 👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more! 🔗 Read it here: shorturl.at/Pt4Ma

📸 Highlights from Bologna! 📚 TIS Team is attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR at the University of Bologna, and you can still visit us today and tomorrow! 📩More info here: shorturl.at/NNJ4h

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online 🛡️Theorising from #Beirut’s Southern Suburbs: Spatialised Capital and Habitus in ‘Nested Everyday Security Fields’ 🔍Find out more here: shorturl.at/RJUTF ✒️Dima Smaira & @jeroengunning.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social)

📍Come visit us in Bologna TOMORROW! 📚TIS Team will be attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR! 🏛️Find us as partners from tomorrow until August 29 at the University of Bologna 📩More info here: shorturl.at/NNJ4h

📍Come visit us in Bologna! 📚TIS Team will be attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR! 🏛️We will be there as partners, and you can find us there from 25 to 29 August 2024 at ‪@unibo.it‬, Italy‬‬‬ 📩More info here: shorturl.at/NNJ4h

New #openaccessarticle online 🛡️#ForeignAid, Identities and Interests: #Qatar and the #UAE in #Sudan 🔍How have geopolitical dynamics shaped Qatar and the UAE’s aid strategy toward Sudan? shorturl.at/90rkZ ✒️ Federico Donelli (University of Trieste) & Altea Pericoli cmeslund.bsky.social‬

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️ #Gulf Donors in the #MENA Region: Unravelling Motivations, Aid Strategies and Geopolitical Objectives in the Case of #Tunisia (2011-24) 🔍 shorturl.at/Ies2D ✒️ Assem Dandashly (maastrichtu.bsky.social)

📍Come visit us in Bologna! 📚 TIS Team will be attending the #SISP2025 annual conference! 🏛️ You can find us there from 4 to 6 September 2025 at ‪Federico II University in Naples 📩 More info here: shorturl.at/D2kGs

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️ Adhocracy in Action: Gulf #HumanitarianInterventions in #Lebanon 🔍 How have Gulf states’ foreign aid strategies in Lebanon evolved since 2021? Discover more here: shorturl.at/767GO ✒️ Clothilde Facon-Salelles (University of Antwerp)

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️ Understanding #GulfStates’ #ForeignAid: A Conceptual Framework 🔍 What factors shape Gulf states' aid strategies in countries like Lebanon, Sudan, and Tunisia?? Discover more here: shorturl.at/8OEbF ✒️ Altea Pericoli (cmeslund.bsky.social‬)

📢 New #Issue Online! 👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more! 🔗 Read it here: shorturl.at/Pt4Ma @fededonelli.bsky.social @yzdzakiyeh.bsky.social

⚠️New #article online! 🗣️Small-State Niche Diplomacy at Work: The Mediation of the UAE and Qatar in the Russia-Ukraine War 🔍How have the #UAE and #Qatar used niche diplomacy to mediate in the #RussiaUkraineWar? shorturl.at/YbvyM ✒️Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco & Kristian P. Alexander

⚠️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/7TKWZ ✒️ Mohammed Nuruzzaman & Noor Mohammad Sarker (North South University)

⚠️ New book review! 📗 Iran’s rise and rivalry with the US in the Middle East, M. M. Milani 🔗 shorturl.at/K9xxI ✒️ Bahram P. Kalviri (School of Social Science University of Hyderabad)

⚠️New #article online! 🇸🇦Reclaiming ‘Saudiness’: Space, Discourse and Securitisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🔍#SaudiArabia to reassert its legitimacy? Find out more: shorturl.at/F9U5Z ✒️Betul Dogan-Akkas

⚠️New #article online! 🇸🇦Reclaiming ‘Saudiness’: Space, Discourse and Securitisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🔍 What kind of (re)ordering of society has recently been employed in #SaudiArabia to reassert its legitimacy? Find out more: shorturl.at/Z22A8 ✒️ Betul Dogan-Akkas

⚠️Read our #openaccesarticle online! 🛡️#EU Policy towards the #Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Limitations of Mitigation Strategies 🔍How is the EU mitigation policy working in the Israel-Palestine context? shorturl.at/9TPgA ✒️ @sinemacikmese.bsky.social & ‪@soliozel.bsky.social

📢 New podcast online! 🔍 How is China using informal trade restrictions to rise as a global power? 🎙️ @SaraVanHoey unpacks her #freeaccessarticle Shadowboxing: The People’s Republic of #China’s Use of #InformalTradeRestrictions as a Rising Power 🔗 https://shorturl.at/434dl