International Relations Theory

Tucker Carlson’s Canada Invasion Rhetoric and the MAGA Fracture

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Tucker Carlson’s Canada Invasion Rhetoric and the MAGA Fracture Executive Summary On December 12, 2025, American commentator Tucker Carlson delivered a series of explicit, uninterrupted statements during a live interview with Matt Walsh that collectively amount to an open endorsement…

Flashpoint at the Frontier: Probabilistic Risk Modeling of the 2025 Cambodia–Thailand Border Crisis

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Flashpoint at the Frontier: Probabilistic Risk Modeling of the 2025 Cambodia–Thailand Border Crisis Executive Summary In July 2025, a long-simmering border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand erupted into the most intense clashes in over a decade, threatening regional stability. What…

The Empire That Forfeited Memory: Trump’s UNESCO Exit and the Collapse of Narrative Sovereignty

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The Empire That Forfeited Memory: Trump’s UNESCO Exit and the Collapse of Narrative Sovereignty Introduction “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” This founding…

We Were Never in Your Court: On the Tactical Refusal of Bureaucratic Norms in Adversarial Systems Work

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We Were Never in Your Court: On the Tactical Refusal of Bureaucratic Norms in Adversarial Systems Work Introduction Bureaucracies want to be seen as inevitable. Their legitimacy is presumed, their authority routinized, their processes self-justifying. They demand submission not through…

The Exception Lives: Diego Garcia and the Illusion of Legal Resolution

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The Exception Lives: Diego Garcia and the Illusion of Legal Resolution Introduction The May 27 editorial by the Canadian Centre for African Affairs and Policy Research presents a powerful account of the Chagos Archipelago as a site of historical injustice…

Canada’s F-35 Review, Portugal’s Exit, and the NATO Breakaway: European Jets Rise as U.S. Grip Weakens

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Canada’s F-35 Review, Portugal’s Exit, and the NATO Breakaway: European Jets Rise as U.S. Grip Weakens Introduction: NATO’s Fighter Jet Crisis Just Got Real For nearly two decades, the F-35 Lightning II was sold to NATO as more than just…

Telegram Is Not an App. It’s a Sovereign Condition.

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Telegram Is Not an App. It’s a Sovereign Condition. 1. Executive Summary Telegram is not the threat. It is the reflection. You’re not looking at an app. You’re looking at a sovereign condition born from the collapse of institutional legitimacy,…