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The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025

Free: Shadowboxing: The People’s Republic of China’s Use of Informal Trade Restrictions as a Rising Power Read
Open access: Performing the (Contested) State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Transnistria’s Political Elites Read

Contents

Shadowboxing: The People’s Republic of China’s Use of Informal Trade Restrictions as a Rising Power

Sara Van Hoeymissen
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 1-19

Critical Raw Materials, Economic Statecraft and Europe’s Dependence on China

John Seaman
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 20-37

China’s Economic Pressure Campaign against Lithuania: The Novelties and Limits of Chinese Economic Statecraft and Coercion

Konstantinas Andrijauskas
Raigirdas Boruta
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 38-55

Assessing Western Discourse on ‘Chinese Neocolonialism’ in the Global South

Nicola Degli Esposti
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 56-72

The Digital Foreign Policies of the US, the PRC and the EU towards Latin America and the Caribbean

Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 73-92

Performing the (Contested) State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Transnistria’s Political Elites

George Sebastian Fartan
Dimitris Bouris
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 93-113

Contested Securitisation of Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Russian Migrants in Georgia

Kornely Kakachia
Salome Kandelaki
Salome Minesashvili
Bidzina Lebanidze
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 114-129

US Structural Power and Oil: Debilitating the Iranian Oil Industry

Şükrü Çildir
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 130-147

Authoritarian Sponsorship of Weak States: Saudi Arabia’s Extended Patronage Network in Yemen

Loretta Dell’Aguzzo
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 148-166

Criminalisation Does Not Deter Irregular Migration: Evidence from Italy and France

Daniela Movileanu
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 167-169

Political Narratives and Global Realities: Evolution without Revolution in Turkish Foreign Policy

Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami
The International Spectator, Vol. 60, No. 2, June 2025, p. 170-172