About the Journal

The YSU Journal of International Affairs (YSUJIA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal fostering debate and dialogue on international affairs across humanities and social sciences, including international relations, international history, international law, international political economy, diplomacy, and foreign policies. It aims to link scholars and policymakers while encouraging innovative, interdisciplinary contributions that broaden the scope of current scholarship.

Current Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2
Published: 10.12.2025

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Editorial Foreword

  • Diverging Patterns of Eurasian Geopolitics: Sovereignty, Identity, and Connectivity in a Fragmented Order

    Tigran Yepremyan, Suren Tadevosyan
    7-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.007

Articles

  • A Tale of Two States: Explaining the Divergent Outcomes of the EU Soft-Transformative Power in Albania and Georgia

    Adrian Brisku, Klodiana Beshku
    12-42
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.012

  • Reconstruction and Modernization of National Identity as Catalysts for Stateness: A Post-Soviet Perspective

    Violetta Manukyan
    43-69
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.043

  • Manufacturing the Enemy: Armenophobia and the Construction of National Identity in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

    Anzhela Mnatsakanyan
    70-92
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.070

  • From Balancing to Active Hedging: The Transformation of Kazakhstan’s Multi-Vector Foreign Policy After 2022

    Fatima Kukeyeva
    93-117
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.093

  • Geoeconomics, Connectivity, and Strategic Partnership: Iran and Armenia in Eurasia’s New Order

    Seyed Hassan Mirfakhraei
    118-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.118

  • International North–South Transport Corridor: A Renewed Horizon of Trade Connectivity Between India and Russia

    Sandeep Tripathi, Urvashi Singh
    141-159
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.141

Discussion Article

  • Bitcoin as a Potential Hegemonic Watershed: Strategic Foresight on Decentralized Money and the Future of Polarity

    José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
    160-173
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/jia.2025.1.2.160

Book Review

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