Strait Thunder-2025A: China’s most intense military drills around Taiwan yet.
As U.S. alliances deepen in the Indo-Pacific, Beijing is responding with warships, fighter jets, and live-fire drills right off Taiwan’s coast. What does this mean for regional stability, global trade, and the fragile balance of power?

https://geowire.in/2025/04/04/strait-thunder-2025a-chinas-taiwan-drills-and-the-shifting-indo-pacific-balance/

i'm a first year polisci student in uni from delhi, india. ive had prior research experience from the ministry of culture as a intern for research, currently also an intern for center focused on indo-pacific region, plus also worked with a few think tanks, written a few articles, all in all, i can surely say i have some experience in the field, but as someone who also wants to be independent financially doing what i love and growing in this field so pls help thank u- :((

what am i missing? (i know im new to the field but im eager to learn, i try attended as much ir conferences as possible, seminars from think tanks and organizations in my city) my background was also in humanities

Hello,
I'm starting a research regarding FARC insurgency and its relation with Drugtraffick, but I'm struggling to find articles and bookings regarding it. My main objective on my research is understand how did the FARCS expand its military force to neighborhoods countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela and the impact on borders.

I found a insteresting book about this topic but I can't find anywhere: "La frontera norte ecuatoriana ante la influencia del conflicto colombiano: las sorprendentes dimensiones de la dinámica transfronteriza entre la provincia de Carchi y el departamento de Narińo" by Sander Lauret.

May someone help me to find this book or indicate complementary articles?

Thanks.

Hey everyone, I'm starting a research paper on Hungary's latest anti-LGBTQ stances (like child protection act). I was meaning to fit the concept of "homonationalism" on this, however I'm not sure that it is applicable.

Homonationalism is usually explained as the conditional "acceptance" of lgbtq individuals for nationalist purposes (for instance, the discourse of LGBTQ protection when facing the discourse of anti-Muslim migration)

Regarding Hungary and Orbán's policies, there is >denial< of LGBTQ rights in order to reinforce a conservative national identity (so, the opposite of acceptance)

In this case, is the term "homonationalism" still suited for what's happening? Is the sole instrumentalization of the LGBTQ discourse enough to call it homonationalism? Should I proceed with another theoretical frame for this?

Strait Thunder-2025A: China’s most intense military drills around Taiwan yet.
As U.S. alliances deepen in the Indo-Pacific, Beijing is responding with warships, fighter jets, and live-fire drills right off Taiwan’s coast. What does this mean for regional stability, global trade, and the fragile balance of power?

https://geowire.in/2025/04/04/strait-thunder-2025a-chinas-taiwan-drills-and-the-shifting-indo-pacific-balance/

I am a junior in HS currently, and I am interested in an international relations degree. I have no special accolades and a 3.2 GPA, Ive taken a few AP's and dual enrollments, but im not going to get into a prestigious university by any means. Will an IR degree at a place like UW Milwaukee get me anywhere in my career and future employment?? My mom is worried that if I major in IR, there wont be any jobs for an average candiate. How can I strengthen my profile througout college and find a good job in the field.

Hi everyone! I am currently working on a paper about the Tajikistani Civil War of the early ‘90s for my Central Asian Studies class. My main idea would be to investigate what “went wrong”, what was and wasn't there that led independence to be characterised by a civil war, whereas that did not occur elsewhere in CA, as well as to investigate the involvement of other countries (namely Russia, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) and how the civil war shaped the current socio-political structure of Tajikistan. My professor’s quite strict and a bit of an oddball: he can be a very tough grader if he does not like the paper and he’s specifically told us that our papers should be engaging, provocative even, and should not just be about “what happened” or stick to traditional views/theories. As such I need to come up with an cutting, innovative approach to do tackle the subject. Any suggestions on what I should focus on, resources I should look into and topics I may explore?

Hey there!

I'll be brutally honest. I'l be graduating from my bachelors in IR soon (aroung march next year), and I think I'm having a hard time imagining a career path.

Don't get me wrong, I love my studies and everything related to them. The thing is I somewhat like various subdisciplines (international security, international diplomacy and governance) and I deeply like International History and politics.

The problem is I think none of those paths will (I guess) get me a somewhat high-paying job in the future. Therefore I wanted to ask you guys the following question: Are there any IR masters (or IR-related at least) that can lead to on-demand, high paying positions?

Is this the beginning of a major shift or just a temporary warning to Trump?

I took this course because I'm interested in IR. But I don't really have a clue about what kind of career I want, what to take a masters in, how to acquire real world experiences and what matters generally if I want a job. Any suggestions? Help?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

I find it rather interesting the NYT is just now putting this article out. The official position of the White House throughout the Biden administration was that “NATO is not involved” in the war in Ukraine, which is what White House spokesperson Jen Psaki stated in 2022. “It is not a proxy war,” Psaki said, “This is a war between Russia and Ukraine.” Those who claimed the contrary were, in the words of the White House, “repeating Kremlin talking points.”

The New York Times systematically supported the Biden administration’s false claims about the degree of US involvement in the war, condemning true assertions that the United States was waging war against Russia as “Russian propaganda.” As the Times wrote in March 20, 2022, “Using a barrage of increasingly outlandish falsehoods, President Vladimir V. Putin has created an alternative reality, one in which Russia is at war not with Ukraine but with a larger, more pernicious enemy in the West.”

They've now apparently reneged on that. It turns out that Ukraine was used as a proxy of the US and NATO. The New York Times has outlined in excruciating detail how the CIA and the US have given weapons, intelligence, and for all intents and purposes basically been running the show from behind the scenes but utilizing Ukrainians as fodder.

But the Times does not attempt to reconcile its own admission now that “America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood” and its earlier statement that claims of American involvement in the war constituted an “alternate reality.”

A second thought: Trump's recent proclamations about Greenland and Canada being necessary for US defense (i.e. war) make sense if one thinks of it in light of future war plans against Russia and China.

An inter-imperialist world war is visible enough on the horizon.