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Trump-Xi Summit 2026 and the End of the American Century

CESRAN Int.20 May 202620 May 2026

Bulent Gokay * Trump’s recent visit to Beijing and the meetings with Xi took place amid heightened geopolitical insecurity in the Gulf and economic chaos elsewhere, both of which are the...

Americas Middle East

How has the war against Iran weakened the US?

CESRAN Int.27 April 202627 April 2026

Bulent Gokay * In the Strait of Hormuz, tankers have been burning, along with what remains of the post-1945 American-led order. … strange and profound changes are under way. …...

Americas Defense & Security Middle East

What the war on Iran means for the petrodollar and the US hegemony

CESRAN Int.1 April 20261 April 2026

Bulent Gokay & Lily Hamourtziadou In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 18th-century English historian and a leading figure of the Enlightenment, Edward Gibbon, posited...

Energy & Environment Middle East

The Oil Factor Remains A Significant Concern That Looms Over The Conflict In Iran

CESRAN Int.15 March 2026

Bulent Gokay* [W]hoever controls the Middle East controls the global oil spigot, and whoever controls the global oil spigot can control the global economy, at least for the near future...

Americas Middle East

Trump’s War on Iran and Geopolitical Implications

CESRAN Int.5 March 20265 March 2026

Bulent Gokay * Since the United States and Israel commenced their unwarranted and unprovoked strike against Iran, the character of the offensive has become apparent. It constitutes a large-scale bombing...

Americas

Why Does Trump Think He Can?

CESRAN Int.15 January 202615 January 2026

Alex Judge, Blog Editor On the 3rd January 2026, the news broke that Donald Trump had authorised a military operation that culminated in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro...

Africa Defense & Security

Religious Violence in Nigeria: A Two-Pronged Resolution

CESRAN Int.15 January 2026

Tom Dear, Review and Interview Editor There has been a recent surge in social media of various posts showing horrendous statistics of religious violence in Nigeria. Posts on Instagram include...

Americas

Making Sense of Trump’s Aggression against Venezuela: Repeating Iraq in Venezuela

CESRAN Int.8 January 20268 January 2026

Bulent Gokay The forcible abduction of Nicolas Maduro, a sitting president, and Celia Flores, who is more than just a wife, also a former head of the National Assembly, and...

Europe Middle East

From Solidarity to Surveillance: Transnational Repression and the Securitisation of Palestine Protests in the UK

CESRAN Int.26 December 202526 December 2025

By Alexandra Judge, Research Fellow Across the world, states are reaching beyond their borders to monitor, intimidate, and repress dissent. From diaspora activists facing digital harassment to dissident journalists surveilled abroad,...

CESRAN Blog

CESRAN2026 – 13th Annual Conference on International Studies – Call for Papers

CESRAN Int.20 December 2025

CESRAN International Contemporary Arab World Centre at the Faculty of Humanities at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa OBSERVARE invite panel and paper proposals for the 13th Annual...

Europe International Economics

Are Wealth Taxes the remedy as the UK re-enters an age of Patrimonial Capitalism?

CESRAN Int.20 November 2025

Jacob Dolan, Review & Interview Editor Throughout Labour’s 2025 Party Conference earlier this month, numerous placards and even billboards displayed the increasingly popular slogan, “Tax Wealth, Not Work.” Yet, within...

Politics

Populism: A twenty-first Century euphemism

CESRAN Int.3 November 2025

Lauren Mason, Blog Editor Across the media and political spectrum, a seemingly new yet rather familiar idea is being discussed: the rise of right-wing populism. Figures such as Nigel Farage,...

Europe

The Reshaping of the European and UK Migration System

CESRAN Int.30 October 202530 October 2025

Anastasiia Prokopenko CESRAN International Review Editor The political landscape across Europe and the UK is undergoing a profound transformation, driven significantly by the contentious issues of migration, asylum, and deportation....

China and Neighbourhood

Can ASEAN Stand Alone? Building Strategic Autonomy in an Unstable World

CESRAN Int.1 October 2025

By Desmond Ng1 On the 8th of July 2025, during a state visit to the United Kingdom, President Emmanuel Macron warned that the UK and France must “work together to...

Americas Russia and Eurasia

Alaska Meeting: Post-Primakov Russia

CESRAN Int.3 September 202514 September 2025

by Sardar Aziz* The U.S. president, Donald Trump, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, met in Alaska in a most spectacular way. The meeting had different meanings for different people...