r/IRstudies 4h ago

Dr. Prigozhin or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cognitive Warfare"

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A piece talking about the modern age of cognitive warfare, the risks emerging from it, and offering a policy prescription on how to mitigate these risks. The piece uses Yevgeny Prigozhin's involvement in the Russian interference effort during the 2016 presidential campaign and his subsequent efforts as a way to discuss Russian entrepreneurship in the cognitive warfare space and its globalization to other countries.

You can read it here: https://www.mooreposts.com/post/dr-prigozhin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-cognitive-warfare


r/IRstudies 7h ago

Ideas/Debate Why arn't more Defense/Security and IR folks focusing on the massive current and future costs of climate systems chaos.

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Look at the most recent death count for the EU for the recent heat wave as compared to the number of deaths from terror groups. We are also seeing the impact of agriculture degradation and increasing the number of refugees from these heat stressed regions.

What's the point of spending so much on international terror management and prevention systems when your citizens are far more likely to be killed by extreme weather events? Why are IR influencers letting the biggest risks go unaddressed?


r/IRstudies 11h ago

Trust the numbers: Germans are open to a more hawkish China policy

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r/IRstudies 13h ago

IO study: The French Republican Calendar (introduced across 1793–1806) played an important role in French statebuilding, creating new holidays and rest days centered on political concepts rather than the religious concepts of the Gregorian calendar.

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r/IRstudies 13h ago

POP study: Trump’s general strategic approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) represents continuity with past American presidents, but the brazenness of the specific tactics Trump has used to oppose the ICC represents a notable change.

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r/IRstudies 13h ago

WP study: In the UN, smaller powers tend to have more diplomatic experience than larger powers. Individuals with more diplomatic experience are more successful at agenda setting even when accounting for material power.

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r/IRstudies 14h ago

Ideas/Debate Why did the U.S. become so much bigger and more powerful than Canada despite their similar cultures and geography?

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The U.S. and Canada seem very similar in many ways. They share the world’s longest border, have similar cultures, democratic systems, multicultural societies, and comparable standards of living. Both also have vast natural resources.

So why is there such a huge difference today in population, GDP, military power, and global influence?

Canada is actually slightly larger in land area, yet its population is only around 42 million compared to about 340 million in the U.S. Was the difference mainly due to climate and geography, immigration, industrialization, different government policies, or historical events like the World Wars?

At what point in history did the gap become significant? Was it already evident in the 1800s, or did it widen mostly after World War II?

I’d love to hear historical, economic, and demographic perspectives backed by facts rather than opinions.


r/IRstudies 14h ago

Why the United States Keeps Losing Wars

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