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A Comparative Study of the US-China Trade War Impacts on Canada, Australia, and Vietnam

Badriyatus Salma — 2025-12-29

The US-China trade war is a trade conflict that has an impact on the global economy. In this trade war, the hegemon state becomes the main global focus. Therefore, the US-China trade war reflects the rivalry between two superpowers that influence global economic stability. This trade war creates uncertainty for economies around the world. This research examines the concept of hegemonic stability theory in the US-China trade war which reflects the rivalry between hegemons. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method. This research also uses the theory of hegemonic stability in the international system. Moreover, this research used literature study techniques to obtain relevant data. The results show that the US-China trade wars have an impact on the global economy. This study finds that Canada and Australia suffer from trade disruption, while Vietnam benefits from investment diversion. The emergence of China as a new and great economic power proves the hegemonic stability though, that a world with more than one dominant player causes chaos, especially in the world economy.

The Role of Third Parties in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Negotiation Process 2003-2015

Qory Fizrianti Beru Sitepu — 2025-12-29

This article analyses the JCPOA negotiation process using the Third Side Negotiation Theory by mapping three key stages: preventing, resolving, and containing. Using a qualitative case study design, with a deductive approach, this study draws on official JCPOA texts, UNSC resolutions, IAEA reports, policy documents, and secondary academic sources. The findings show that the success of the JCPOA is inseparable from the intervention of third parties—particularly the UNSC, E3, and IAEA—who played pivotal roles in preventing escalation, mediating diplomatic deadlocks, and monitoring compliance throughout the negotiation period. The study contributes to negotiation and conflict-resolution scholarship by demonstrating how third-party intervention can transform high-risk geopolitical confrontation into a cooperative, rule-based agreement, with implications for future nuclear diplomacy frameworks and multilateral negotiations involving asymmetric power relations.

Bordering Beyond Borders: A Governmentality Analysis of Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders and Israel’s Externalisation of Asylum Policy

Titan Alramadhan — 2025-12-29

This paper analyses how Australia and Israel transform deterrence into an ethical means of moral control; it investigates how these nations are using the concept of "care" in order to rationalise their strict border management practices. Through its analysis of Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders and Israel's externalisation policies, this paper demonstrates how the act of coercion can be disguised as compassionate action, and exclusionary actions are portrayed as protective actions. This paper utilises the theoretical framework of Foucauldian governmentality to illustrate how the Australian and Israeli governments utilise moral reasoning to govern asylum seekers; they merge authority with empathy, and both appear to be one and the same. Furthermore, this paper illustrates that while deterrence may work through physical force, it also works by the notion that controlling movement is an ethically responsible obligation. Both instances demonstrate how morality is used as a mechanism of power and how humanitarian language serves as an exclusionary device. Thus, by demonstrating how such practices occur, this paper aids in explaining how the discourse of care has become a core aspect of the global governance of mobility.

Toward Resilient and Peaceful Futures: Climate Security and Governance in the Global South

Muhammad Danish Mohd Haikel — 2025-12-29

This study investigates the pivotal issues between climate change and security in the Global South. These countries, which often contribute the lowest emissions and are the least wealthy, are among those affected by climate change. This study aims to examine how governance challenges influence peacebuilding amid environmental crises by reform the security systems to incorporate climate security dimensions. Existing studies highlight the connection between environmental crises and conflict but often emphasize the Global North. There is a lack of comprehensive analysis exploring how good governance, diplomacy, and multilateral cooperation in the Global South can address climate security risks. The aim of this research is to fill that gap by examining governance approaches that will enhance peace and build more resilience amid environmental pressures. This study utilizes a mixed-methods approach, combining policy reviews, case studies from the Global South, and quantitative analysis of environmental and conflict data. The results were understood using themes and statistics. The research highlights that effective governance is characterized by transparency and diversity can reform climate resilience and reduce prolonged impact. Multilateral efforts that address Global South voices yield more sustainable pathways and peace outcomes. The form of “climate diplomacy” that focuses on local, community-based solutions offer alternatives to conventional securitized approaches. This supports the urgent call to frame climate security as a collaborative governance challenge. Its findings provide empirical evidence and practical policy for climate adaptation with peacebuilding and security strategies and sustainable governance in the Global South amidst ongoing environmental change.

Navigating Hunger Through Street Food: A Comparative Analysis of Food Security Policies and the Role of Informal Street Food Vending in Indonesia and the Philippines

Allan Raymundo Jr. — 2025-12-29

Hunger remains a key issue among developing countries, especially in Southeast Asia. The phenomenon of hunger makes itself felt in many ways: undernutrition, decreased labor efficiency, social degeneration, and recession in physical and mental fitness on the part of the youth, among others. This article traces food insecurity issues in the region, particularly in two select cases: Indonesia and the Philippines. Although the two archipelagic countries have deep-seated similarities in terms of history, culture, economics, politics, and geography—both, notably, enjoy the geographical blessing of fertile land area that spans millions of kilometers—Indonesia and the Philippines are now charting different developmental trajectories as evident in their food security levels indicated by Global Hunger Index. Through a comparative look into their state-level policies, findings reveal that both countries emphasize the importance of food self-sufficiency albeit in varying degrees of implementation, which has led to different results in terms of food security. This article thus argues that the emphasis on mitigating the issue of hunger through trade and self-sufficiency policies tends to overlook the big role poverty plays in determining food access, to begin with. Thus, this paper, using a universalist approach, looks into the role informal economies such as street food vending play as a hyperlocal symptom (or response) to hunger.

Beyond The Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics by Christopher L. Palas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood

Muhammad Iqbal Yunazwardi — 2025-12-29

Gender and Diplomacy by Jennifer A. Cassidy

Ahmad Ridwan — 2025-12-29