ISSN: 0020-5850, EISSN: 1468-2346
International Affairs is one of the world’s leading journals of international relations and one of the few to cover the entire discipline. Founded by and edited at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, it has been in existence for over 90 years and has become renowned for its academically rigorous, practitioner-focused scholarship.
Over the years it has featured articles not only from many of the leading international relations scholars but also from those rising in the profession. This lively and provocative journal will keep you up to date with latest critical thinking on the key issues shaping today’s world. Whatever your level and area of interest, you will find International Affairs readable, informative and stimulating.
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Articles
Threat not solution: gender, global health security and COVID-19
Sophie Harman
Editor’s Choice
Securitization, surveillance and ‘de-extremization’ in Xinjiang
Stefanie Kam, Michael Clarke
Framing China’s rise in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom
David M McCourt
UN celebrity diplomacy in China: activism, symbolism and national ambition online
Saskia Postema, Jan Melissen
The grey zone of cyber-biological security
Thom Dixon
Cyber offense in NATO: challenges and opportunities
Jeppe T Jacobsen
Women as ‘new security actors’ in preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali
Jenny Lorentzen
BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates
Caitlin Hamilton, Rhaíssa Pagot, Laura J Shepherd
Sectarian securitization in the Middle East and the case of Israel
Raffaella A Del Sarto
From detente to containment: the emergence of Iran’s new Saudi strategy
Hassan Ahmadian, Payam Mohseni
India’s multi-alignment management and the Russia–India–China (RIC) triangle
Frank O’Donnell, Mihaela Papa
Supranational entrepreneurs: the High Representative and the EU global strategy
Monika Sus
Transforming practices of diplomacy: the European External Action Service and digital disinformation
Elsa Hedling
Elite attitudes and the future of global governance
Jan Aart Scholte, Soetkin Verhaegen, Jonas Tallberg
Book reviews
International Relations theory
The laws of war in international thought
Cian O’Driscoll
The politics of annihilation: a genealogy of genocide
Stephen McLoughlin
International history
South Africa, race and the making of International Relations
Peter Wilson
Governance, law and ethics
The first political order: how sex shapes governance and national security worldwide
Leah de Haan
The International Organization for Migration: the new ‘UN migration agency’ in critical perspective
João Terrenas
China, the UN, and human protection: beliefs, power, image
Emily Venturi
Reconstructing democracy: how citizens are building from the ground up
Daniele Archibugi
Conflict, security and defence
War: how conflict shaped us
Alex J Bellamy
Energy, environment and global health
The new climate war: the fight to take back our planet
Rebecca M Peters
Global environmental governance and the accountability trap
Terhemba Ambe-Uva
The uncounted: politics of data in global health
Sophie Harman
The rules of contagion: why things spread––and why they stop
Sebastian Kevany
Europe
Britain alone: the path from Suez to Brexit
Ben Horton
Middle East and North Africa
Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War
Margot Light
Sub-Saharan Africa
From hope to horror: diplomacy and the making of the Rwanda genocide
Noam Schimmel
South Asia
Animosity at bay: an alternative history of the India–Pakistan relationship, 1947–1952
Tim Willasey-Wilsey
East Asia and Pacific
Special duty: a history of the Japanese intelligence community
Joel Campbell
Betraying Big Brother: the feminist awakening in China
Lucy Ridout
The overseas Chinese democracy movement: assessing China’s only open political opposition
Axel Dessein
North America
Slow anti-Americanism: social movements and symbolic politics in central Asia
Alex Langstaff
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Books reviewed May 2021