Calibrating Power. Interpreting Strategy

When does a frozen conflict thaw?

Daniele Stracquadanio

Doctoral Researcher

Resentment and Radicalisation – A Guilty Couple?

Dr. Evelyn Bokler

Assistant Professor

Convergence without Alliance: The Possibility of a Russia–China–Pakistan Alignment

Dr. Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

Assistant Professor

Misleading Use of Geopolitical Concepts

Dr. Hideaki Shinoda

Professor

Book Review | Sardar Patel: An Icon of India’s Unity

Book Review | Sardar Patel: An Icon of India’s Unity, by Harish K. Thakur (ed.), New York, Routledge India, 2025, 1st edition, 204 pp., £146, ISBN 1041210531.

Prakash Jangid

Senior Research Fellow

Relational Movement and the Failure of Force

This commentary argues that multiplexity helps explain why materially superior states often fail to convert battlefield dominance into political victory in small wars. It introduces relational movement as the process through which weaker actors preserve resistance by reconfiguring alliances, expanding participation, and shifting legitimacy under coercive pressure.

Dr. Phil W. Reynolds

Lecturer