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The 20 Best Masters Programmes in International Relations — A Global Guide for 2027 Intake

Ranked by aggregating three major polls from 2024-2026, this is the definitive guide to the world's top 20 IR masters programmes — with honest assessments of what each costs, what it delivers, and what the rankings won't tell a student from the Global South.

By Sunny Peter

/ 23 May 2026

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The Playbook. Again

Fuel blockade. Economic collapse. CIA deadline. Criminal indictment of the head of state. Carrier group. Washington ran this sequence before. On May 20 — Cuban Independence Day — it unsealed an indictment of Raúl Castro and deployed the USS Nimitz. The playbook is open.

By Sunny Peter

/ 25 May 2026

Bombed. Now Billing.

The US went to war to break Iran. Three months later Iran is charging $2 million per ship through the Strait of Hormuz, in Chinese yuan, and J.P. Morgan says it could earn $90 billion a year. The bombing did not break Iran's leverage. It formalised it.

By Sunny Peter

/ 22 May 2026

The Master Is Here. He Must Be Punished.

Ben-Gvir films the spectacle and administers the system. Nuremberg hanged Streicher for the propaganda and Pohl for the administration. Ben-Gvir is both. Washington funds his government. The master is in his cabinet. The court is in The Hague.

By Sunny Peter

/ 21 May 2026

The Master Is Here. He Must Be Punished.

Putin Won the War. Xi Won Putin.

Putin went to war for Russian sovereignty. He flew to Beijing this week hoping Xi will finalise a gas pipeline replacing the European market Russia destroyed. The act of independence produced the most comprehensive dependency in Russian history.

By Sunny Peter

/ 21 May 2026

Occupation Has a Peace Plan

Trump's Board of Peace calls Hamas the obstacle to peace while Israel controls 60% of Gaza and kills daily. A framework requiring one side to disarm while the other expands is not a peace process. The occupation has a peace plan. The occupied are being asked to fund it.

By Sunny Peter

/ 20 May 2026

The Nuremberg Paradox

Netanyahu attended a state dinner in Budapest under an active ICC arrest warrant. Hungary withdrew from the court. He flew home. The warrant is real. The enforcement is not. It is working as the powerful designed it to work. Eighty years of Jewish history makes that truth unbearable to confront.

By Sunny Peter

/ 19 May 2026

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