Publications

The Tsinghua International Relations Review is a biannual academic journal associated with the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Master’s Program, the Master’s Program in Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Relations (CPFP), and the NexGen Global Forum. TIRR provides a venue for graduate students at Tsinghua University to publish essays, research articles, and book reviews on topics in international affairs and global policy. The Review aims to advance academic debate in the fields of international relations, security studies, international political economy, and international development. TIRR publishes essays and abridged theses nominated by professors in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

TIRR Volume IV: Issue 3

Volume IV: Issue 3, Fall 2024

The Ideological Legacy of the French Revolution: Gaps and Challenges in Western Democracies	Timothée Pierre Antoine Lafont	3
The Magnitsky Act and Transatlantic Sanctions: Evaluating Impact and Challenges in Global Human Rights Accountability	Avery J. Prewitt	14
China’s Domestic Battle for Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency	Yipei Lu	30
The Influence of post-World War II Decolonization Efforts on the Ideological Relationship and Identity Politics between Former Colonies and their ex-Colonizers	Anais Magner	38
Nationalism, Modern Systems, and the Ethics of Genocide: Exploring the Role of Moral Blindness in Globalized Societies	Avery J. Prewitt	52
The Decline – and Fall? – of the US Empire: The Transatlantic Alliance at its Crossroads	Pablo Miranda	57

TIRR Special Issue 2024

2024 Special Issue, November 2024

“Mercantilism” vs. Moving Up the Value Chain: An Extension of Pascale Massot’s “Vulnerability Paradox” through a Comparative Analysis of Chinese Involvement in the Congolese Cobalt and Indonesian Nickel Industries	Arlen E. Agiliga	3
Pandemic Pulse: A Comparative Analysis of Nepal-China Import-Export Trends Pre- and Post-COVID (2015-2023)	Aayush Maskey & Suloja Khadka	13
China’s Investments, Commercial and Economic Presence, and Political Influence in Türkiye	Rümeysa Keleş	26

TIRR Volume IV: Issue 1

Volume IV: Issue 1, Spring 2024

The Lebanese Civil War 1975-1990: Causes and Reflection	Hassan Saeed Hassan Alminhali	3
How did Chinese Foreign Policy vis-à-vis Other Communist States Evolve Between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the 1957 Moscow Conference?	Aileen Kearney	12
Analyzing Sino-Soviet Relations in the 50s and 60s Through the Balance of Threat Theory	Vitor Moura	25
The Unraveling Bond: Sino-Soviet Relations 1950-1970 as seen in Korea and Indochina	John Edward Buxton	37
The Roof of the World: Comparing Nepal’s Role as a Buffer State to Us Interests in Tibet during the Cold War	Susan St. Denis	48
“Guided Democracy” and Genocide in Indonesia: The Limits of the “United Front” in a Postbellum Era”	Pablo Miranda	62
Benevolent or Detrimental? Text Analysis of China-Related Reports by Francophone Senegalese Mainstream Media	Yinge Hu	82
China’s Flexible and Sustainable Approach to Engagement in the Lithium Triangle	Jiaquan Zhou	94
Navigating the European Project: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Portugal’s Journey within the EU	Carlos Jackson Almeida	101
Examining Support for Pro-integrationist Parties in the EU: Country and Socio-Demographic Dynamics Leading up to the 2024 Election	Aileen Kearney	111
Defending the EU: Towards Europeanisation or Intergovernmentalism within the CFSP Framework?	Henric Svenningson	127

TIRR Volume III: Issue 2

Volume III: Issue 2, Sep 2023

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• HOW HAVE THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALISM CHANGED AS A RESULT OF MODERNIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION?_Elizabeth Cherchia
• A CALL FOR ACTION: THE EU COMMON POSITION_Candice Batier
• THE TREATY ON OPEN SKIES: POLICY BRIEF TO THE CURRENT BULGARIAN LEADERSHIP_Jood Ghazwan Sharaf
• REINVIGORATING THE UNITED KINGDOM’S NON-PROLIFERATION POLICY: RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE PROPOSED FISSILE MATERIAL CUT-OFF TREATY_Aileen Kearney
• THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR_Kerstin Magdalena van Laak

TIRR Volume III: Issue 1

Volume III: Issue 1, May 2023

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• IS CHINA’S VACCINE DIPLOMACY IN INDONESIA A SUCCESS?_Canxu
• SINO-CUBAN RELATIONS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA_Zuzanna Zak
• ENGAGING NORTH KOREA: THE DIPLOMACY OF A NEW AGE, POLICY BRIEF TO SOUTH KOREA’S LEADERSHIP_Jood Ghazwan Sharaf
• YOON SUK-YEOL’S PRESIDENCY: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF COALITION SHIFTS IN SOUTH KOREA’S POLICY TOWARD NORTH KOREA_Jood Ghazwan Sharaf
• THE RWANDA GENOCIDE: THE ROLE OF WESTERN MEDIA_Kerstin Magdalena van Laak

TIRR Volume II: Issue 2

Volume II: Issue 2, Sep 2022

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• CHILD SOLDIERS: LESSONS FROM THE CIVIL WAR IN SIERRA LEONE (1991–2002) Stefania Jiang
• ITALY AND THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION Stefania Jiang
• JOINING THE SOUTHEAST ASIA NUCLEAR WEAPON-FREE ZONE TREATY: A RIGHT DECISION AND A LONG WAY TO GO FOR VIETNAM Phan Nhat Tra My
• WHY DO STATES PURSUE AN INDEPENDENT, DEPENDENT, RELIANT, OR INTEGRATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY VIS-À-VIS AVAILABLE ALLIANCES? Jan Quosdorf
• CONVENTION ON THE PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL (CPPNM) AND ITS AMENDMENT: POLICY RECOMMENDATION FOR PAKISTAN Farhan Sheikh
• THE NEW TALIBAN: INSURGENT EVOLUTION Farhan Sheikh
• TECHNOLOGY: TENSION BETWEEN NEUTRALITY AND VALUE ATTACHMENT Tian Lu
• IDEOLOGY IN THE ERA OF MODERNIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION Sulochana Wajayasinghe

TIRR Volume II: Issue 1

Volume II: Issue 1, March 2022

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• INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, REBEL DIPLOMACY, AND CIVIL CONFLICT DURATION: HOW EXTERNAL INTERVENTION PROLONGS THE WAR IN YEMEN Yin Tsit Chan
• PUNISHMENT OR DENIAL: WHAT DETERS IN A COLD WAR SETTING? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE KOREAN WAR AND THE FIRST TAIWAN STRAIT CRISIS Yin Tsit Chan
• SHOCKING BUT NOT SURPRISING: BRITISH AND SOVIET INTELLIGENCE SURROUNDING OPERATION BARBAROSSA Rachel Farmer
• CYBERSECURITY: THE EU’S POSITION IN THE CHINA-US 5G DIGITAL COMPETITION Stefania Jiang
• THE EAST-GERMAN REFUGEE EXODUS OF 1989: A COMPARISON OF THE IMPLICATIONS ON HUNGARY’S BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH THE GDR, BRD, and USSR Julian Kirchoff
• GERMANY AND THE ARMS TRADE TREATY Julian Kirchoff
• IDEOLOGY, REVOLUTION, AND TOTALITARIANISM Sining Li
• ASIA’S DRAGONS: EXPLAINING SINO-INDONESIAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION AMID ANTI-CHINA SENTIMENT IN THE COVID-19 ERA Christian Pareira
• THE TPP NEGOTIATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF 2021 PEACE TALKS Farhan Sheikh
• CHINA-KENYA COOPERATION ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA: A CASE STUDY ON THE MOMBASA-NAIROBI SGR Anqing Zhao

TIRR Volume I: Issue 1

July 2021

Volume I: Issue 1, July 2021

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• THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON CHINA AND CHILE’S ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP Rachel Farmer
• EXPLAINING THE BREAKDOWN OF VIETNAMESE-KHMER ROUGE RELATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE CONTEXT OF THE COLD WAR Bayley Murray
• NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT: RUSSIA’S ROLE IN SHAPING THE GEOPOLITICS OF SOUTH CAUCASUS Darine Razmadze
• RETHINKING THE “LOSS OF CHINA”: US INVOLVEMENT IN THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR, 1945-1949 Nathaniel Sher