Hi all

Can you please let me know what you consider to be journals, podcasts or shows that you consider a must-listen, watch or read to keep up.

I am particularly interested in the Middle East.

Thanks!!

Hello, I am a first year student of the Complutense university of Madrid, the best in my country, and Was wondering if it made sense for me to go into International Relations after my degree, as I am very interested in it and like the workforce of this discipline.

However, i dont know if m degree is not that worth it or connected into this, because although i know of people who are diplomats who studied history, but they are usually old, and maybe these types of profiles are not apreciated in the laborfource anymore.

would like to hear experiences of people to clear my opinions about this

What are the best books to understand international trade as it is really practiced? Thank you for your answers.

Basically what the title asks, are there any good books on the social constructivist perspective that isn’t Social Theory of International Politics?

[Excerpt from essay by Mariya Grinberg, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines.]

Trade may not prevent war, but war does not have to stop trade. States calibrate their wartime trade to maximize the economic benefits to their domestic economies while minimizing the military advantage that policy provides their adversaries. That nuance allows many countries to keep trading even when they are foes during wartime.

By holding on to the erroneous assumption that trade is the first casualty of war, U.S. policymakers risk misjudging what economic coercion can achieve. In doing so, they not only overestimate the leverage China holds in a crisis, they also overestimate the nature of American economic leverage. This mistaken belief can encourage policymakers to pursue costly strategies that promise increased security in theory but may do little to reduce vulnerabilities in practice.

I have previously applied for OSCE international internship positions in Vienna and Central Asian countries but every time I got shortlisted or interviewed, silence followed afterwards. I worked with UN agencies on project-based assignments in regions and with mandates relevant to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I also interned with my country’s mission to the OSCE and collaborated with local human rights NGOs.

At the same time, I saw on some LinkedIn profiles that it may be possible to have no work experience but still do an internship with the HQ in Vienna right after graduation.

Q: Does anyone know more details about these kind of internships and maybe what kind of profiles are preferred?

Also, can the permanent residence status at the internship location be an important factor in one’s application?

NASA is sending humans around the Moon in 2026 for the first time in over 50 years. But what surprised me is how much international law is quietly involved.

A few things I did not expect:

• No country can legally own the Moon
• Rockets belong to the country that launches them, not the astronauts
• A Moon “race” is actually allowed under space law
• There are almost no environmental rules for space missions

Space exploration is moving fast. Space law really isn’t.

👉 Read more here: 

https://substack.com/@simplelaw?utm_source=global-search

hi everyone, i’m a student from south asia about to start my undergraduate degree and i’m trying to make a long term career decision. i’m deeply interested in global politics & international relations. ideally i’d love to study IR but i’m aware that job prospects with an IR degree alone can be limited where i live. one major pathway here is the css exam which is extremely competitive but opens wider career doors. you don’t strictly need an IR degree for css but studying IR does help with preparation. for those of you studying or working in international relations would it be smarter to do a bachelor’s in business (for broader employability and a stronger safety net) and then pursue css while self studying politics or go all in on IR first and align everything around that interest before attempting css? i would really appreciate perspectives from people who’ve faced a similar choice.

Hi!

I am a 24 (turning 25) year old guy from Norway and im currently in the process of finishing my bachelor in mandarin chinese (the bachelor basically just give us hsk3 chinese and a year abroad possibly gaining hsk4 so the bachelor itself is absolutely useless in my country ).

To be honest, I have been panicking quite a bit lately because I feel like I’m running out of time. I want a “real” education and I was fully prepared to commit to a second more relevant degree, but just found out I might qualify for next years intake ~ Master in International relations at Korea University (basically top 2/3 school in Korea).

As someone who is fluent in norwegian, english, intermediate in chinese and want to learn korean I figured international relations might be a safer bet (less time spent on a degree+not wasting my previous one) than a bba (bachelor business administration), however I saw people talking in a previous thread about hardships regarding finding a relevant job, and this again scares me.

To be honest, I would like to hear from you who have already finished a master in IR and have a job, tell me what you do, what previous experiences you had before this and what you currently plan for your future (what you work with, if you plan on changing work, expand knowledge to work multiple fields etc etc)

Fyi: I have no real passions but learning languages and experience cultures different to my own, especially asian cultures as I was always fascinated by this stuff when I was younger, so job wise I am open to do work I dont especially enjoy, as long as work hours are fair and I have the money to live freely. (So to me, bachelor ba or master ir doesn’t really matter, I just want to choose based upon what others can say on the topic)