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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 III: Issue 2
Sep 2023
Volume III: Issue 2, Sep 2023
- 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
May 2023
Volume III: Issue 1, May 2023
- 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
September 2022
Volume II: Issue 2, September 2022
- 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
March 2022
Volume II: Issue 1, March 2022
- 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
- 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