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Volume 188, issue 4, 2025

Assessing Monetary and Fiscal Policy Measures to Promote the Sustainability of Domestic and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Mwoya Byaro, Anicet Rwezaula, Jackson Bulili and Romanus Dimoso

How Is the Global Order Changing? A Review of Emerging Global Approaches Beyond the West

Helder Ferreira do Vale

US Foreign Policy and the Gulf States: Changing Dynamics in a Multipolar World

Steven Wright

China's Dual Role and Its Implications for Latin America

Florencia Rubiolo and Li Xing

Justice Post‐Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: When “Community Service” Fails to Repair the Damage Suffered by Survivors and the Torn Social Fabric

Philibert Muzima

Disputed Sovereignty and Forced Displacement: Rethinking the Bakassi Peninsula Crisis Through International Law and Human Security

Gbeke Adenuga and Seun Bamidele

(Non)Democratic Rule in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Hawre Hasan Hama and Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai

Energy Price Inflation and Real Output Nexus in Selected Sub‐Saharan African Economies

Chimere O. Iheonu and Charles Mbohwa

Banking Concentration and Health Performance in Developing Countries

Emeride F. Kayo, Simplice Asongu and Therese E. Zogo

Commentary: Will Smaller Powers Obtain WMDs?

Andreas Umland

Balancing Economic Integration and Dependency: Insights Into Trade and Investment Dynamics in the Indo‐Pacific

Jacques Yana Mbena

Integrating Remittance Economies Into the Indo‐Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF): Pathways to Resilience and Inclusive Growth

A.K.M. Ahsan Ullah

The Indo‐Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity: Geopolitical and Economic Strategies in a Declining Liberal International Order?

Francesco Petrone

India's Role in the Indo‐Pacific Economic Framework: A Balancing Act

Pamreihor Khashimwo

Limitations of the Indo‐Pacific Economic Framework in Countering China's Economic Power

Ranti Yulia Wardani and Astri Hanna Waruwu

Authoritarian Developmentalism in the Digital Age: Selling Techno‐Futures and State Capitalism in the Gulf

Natalie Koch

Pathways to Achieving SDGs in Africa: Investigating the Impact of Digitalization and Labor Market Productivity on Income, Employment, Poverty, and Inequality

Olorunfemi Yasiru Alimi, Omolara Ayotunde Campbell and Fatimah Ololade Bolarinwa

Between Formality and Informality: Socialization and Cohesion in the South Korea–US and Taiwan–US Asymmetric Alliances

Yavor A. Kostadinov and Emilian Kavalski

Countering Corruption Through Transparency: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Ablay Dosmaganbetov and Riccardo Pelizzo

Commentary—Evolving Regionalism in Global Governance

Michael Plouffe and Thomas Gift

Volume 188, issue 3, 2025

Julia McClure. 2025. Empire of Poverty: The Moral‐Political Economy of the Spanish Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 256 pp. £65.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-893387-8

Abdellatif El Aidi

The Palestinians in a Transforming Middle East: Adapting or Stagnating

Anas Iqtait

Ploughshares Into Swords: The State of Israel's New Trajectory

Susie Becher

A Difficult Start for the UK Labour Government, But Time Is Still on Their Side

Hefin Gwilym, Dave J. Beck, Edward Jones, David Ellis and Sara Closs‐Davies

The Told Story of the Gaza War

Daniel Bar‐Tal

A Conceptual View of the Israel–Hamas Conflict: Is There a Lesson to be Learned From a Systems Approach?

David Rabinowitz

Antimicrobial Resistance Threat, One Health Plans, and Administrative Capacity

Nathan Myers and M. Ernita Joaquin

The Gaza Syndrome

Hillel Schenker

Predicting Democracy Support in the Middle East and North Africa

Mehmet Onder and Malek F. Abduljaber

A Free Comment Forum to Mitigate Epistemic Injustice in Academic Publication

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva and Timothy Daly

The Psychological Dynamics of Consumer Sacrifices in Times of Inter‐Country Conflict

Amogh Talan, Shemphang Wann Lyngdoh, Sunil, Pragyendu Yaduvanshi and Madhu Gahlot

The UN Human Rights Council's Discursive Construction of Iranian Political Actors: A Discourse‐Historical Approach

Hiwa Weisi and Bayan Dastyar

Extended Commentary—Israel's Relations With the UN: From “Om Shmum” Policy to Proactive Policy

Yaron Salman

Antiliberal Interventionism in Chinese Foreign Policy

Serafettin Yilmaz and Olga Daksueva

Why China Has Already Caught Up With the United States? Rethinking Power and Technology

Juan Pablo Sims, Yun‐Tso Lee and Brice Tseen Fu Lee

An Analysis of the 2024 Sri Lankan Presidential Elections

A. R. M. Imtiyaz

Israel as a “Crazy” State

Ian Lustick

No Limits: The Biden Administration's Support for Israel's War on Gaza

Dov Waxman and Jeremy Pressman

Israel at the Crossroads: A Messianic Halakhic State, or A Normal Civil Democratic State?

Ziad AbuZayyad

The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Gaza

David L. Phillips

Israel–Palestine: Where Are the Adults?

Frederic C. Hof

Military Coups in Africa: Historical Context and Contemporary Dynamics

Mohammad T. Bani Salameh, Azzam A. Ananza and Ayman Albarasneh

The Polarization Paradox: How State Wealth and Online Media Consumption Affect Polarization

Lance Y. Hunter

Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence From 13 European OECD Countries

Katsuya Ito

Does ICT Moderate the Effect of the Shadow Economy on Environmental Sustainability?

James Dada, Folorunsho Ajide, Mosab I. Tabash, Samrat Ray and Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al‐Faryan

The Historical Roots of Energy Consumption: Does Financial Development Matter?

Therese E. Zogo, Seabrook Arthur Mveng and Simplice Asongu

Volume 188, issue 2, 2025

Building Indonesian Resilience: A Pathway Governing Urban Transformation

Abdillah Abdillah, Ida Widianingsih, Rd Ahmad Buchari and Heru Nurasa

Save the World or Make a Deal? An Ideological Diagnoses of China–US Relations and the Possibility of Escaping the Thucydides Trap

Ruairidh J. Brown

Theory of Self‐Determination: A Viable Solution for the Kashmir Conflict

Muhammad Waqas Haider

Inclusive Finance Trends in the Age of Digital Technologies and Innovations: An Empirical Study Based on Panel Data Analysis

Inès Gharbi, Aïda Kammoun and Mohamed karim Kefi

Party Affiliation of the US President and Path Dependence in the Bilateral Relationship With Mexico at Five Critical Junctures

Estefania Cruz Lera

Staring Into the Ukrainian Looking Glass: Uncomfortable Lessons About NATO and Modern War

Christopher G. Libertini

The Effects of Climate Change and Technological Advancement on Economic Recovery in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Mwoya Byaro and Anicet Rwezaula

Hamas' October Attack Should not Have Come as a Surprise to Anyone

Alon Ben‐Meir

Extended Commentary—Blitz on the West: Ukraine as Ground Zero of China's New Great Game

William H. Thornton and Songok Han Thornton

An Analysis of Indian Foreign Policy: Book Review of Why Baharat Matters By S. Jaishankar, New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2024. 248 pp. $40 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978‐9357027601

Amrita Chaudhary

Beneath the Silence: The Hidden Struggles of Occupied Cities

Iryna Glazkova, Yana Suchikova and Oksana Rezvan

“INEVITABILITY”: Capturing Strategic Ambiguity in Xi Jinping's China

Una Aleksandra Bērziņa‐Čerenkova

Volume 188, issue 1, 2025

The Damage Done: A Mandate to Demolish America's Progress Toward a More Perfect Union

Anthony R. Brunello

Country Size and Government Effectiveness in Africa: Transcending the Mean Analysis

George Babington Amegavi, Zechariah Langnel, Justice Nyigma Bawole and James Kwame Mensah

Problematizing and Reappraising Critiques of “Ethno‐Nationalism”: Collective Self‐Determination, Liberal Democracy, and Human Rights in Dynamic Synergy

Noam Schimmel

Traveling Across Global Divides: Freedom or Barriers to Move?

A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah and Diotima Chattoraj

Unveiling the Drivers of Competitiveness: A Study Across Latin America and Europe

Ivan Ricardo Ruiz Castro, Melva Inés Gómez–Caicedo, Mercedes Gaitán–Angulo, Manuel Ignacio Balaguera and Juan Antonio Marmolejo

Harmony or Dominance? Exploring the Complex Dynamics of India−Bangladesh Water Relations

Kajol Gupta, Arundhati Bhattacharyya and Keshav Kant Prasad

Between the Horns of a Dilemma: India, Pakistan, and Conflict Dynamics in South Asia

Surinder Mohan

Divergent Paths: The Statal Securitization of the Kurdish Question and the Struggle for Kurdish Societal Security in Türkiye

Ibrahim Has

Electoral Integrity and Election Management in Nigeria: The Case of the 2023 General Election

Onyedikachi Madueke and Chukwuemeka Enyiazu

Indirect Rule: The Making of US International Hierarchy By David A. Lake, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781501773770 (hbk), ISBN: 9781501773761 (pbk)

Hüsna Taş Yetim

Extended Commentary – The US Space Force: America's Key to Securing Space Dominance—It Ain't Science Fiction Anymore

Orson Scott Card and Lamont Colucci