Top Research Papers on International Relations

Autor se bavi razvojem međunarodnih politickih odnosa kroz povijest, pod prve katedre međunarodnih odnosa da kretanja u suvremenoj međunarodnoj zajednici. U knjizi autor definira znanost o međunarodnim odnosima, tipove međunarodnih odnosa, subjekte, faktore, te ulogu međunarodnioh organizacija.

the future legal and political order of ocean space. In light of changing technological and political circumstances, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS HI) met for a decade and finally adopted a new comprehensive Law of the Sea Convention in 1982. Treating a vast array of ocean rights and duties, this treaty is of substantial complexity and embodies a mixture of both existing and new rules of international ocean law. From the perspectives of allocation of ocean rights and duties and the development of the international legal system, UNCLOS III ranks as one of the...

A network-driven approach to analyze communities as they are established through different forms of bottom-up and top-down IRs and shows a clear misalignment between citizen-formed international networks and the ones established by the Syrian government.

A special IFLA conference on the use of and access to icon ographie collections took place in Geneva, Switzerland, March 13-15, 1985. In more ways than one this was a pioneer effort, both for its focus on a very specific aspect of art documentation and for its obvious appeal to European (particularly francophone) art librarians, documentation specialists, art historians, curators and researchers who participated in its proceedings. Organized under the auspices of the Art Libraries Section of IFLA through the enthusiastic offices of Huguette Rouit of the Biblioth?que de l'Ecole du Louvre and Je...

What a pleasure it is to read a thoroughly researched and well-argued book by a single author that puts Gorbachev's reconstruction of Soviet foreign policy into a timely perspective. Dr. Adams' study does far more than outline the evolution of Soviet policy toward Central America from Stalin's hostility, through Brezhnev's aggressiveness, to Gorbachev's new political thinking. All along, the author keeps in mind several pertinent questions that retain their relevance, both practical and theoretical, beyond the narrower focus of Moscow's retreat from the Caribbean area. Three basic questions un...

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cal wave in favour of human rights. He traces the historical developments that have led to this tendency, which produced a shift in the work of humanitarian NGOs and international organizations from ‘needs-based’ to ‘rights-based’ aid. The causes and consequences of this shift are widely analysed, in particular the development of an ‘ethical’ foreign policy, largely promoted by some Western governments. Chandler is not particularly positive about those developments and formulates numerous critiques. To solidify his argument, he focuses mainly on the events of the past decade, taking into accou...

Magistral in scope and rich in topical detail, Professor Fleming’s brave masterpiece will provoke earnest argument and some strident disagreement. It is no less than a &dquo;revisionist&dquo; history of the cold war, intended, in the author’s words, &dquo;to present the other side, how it looks to ’the enemy,’ in the belief that this is essential to the avoidance of the final grand smash.&dquo; Granted this purpose, few readers will deny that the author has presented a strong brief. Whether such a declared purpose

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in the weaknesses of international conference diplomacy, this work would serve as an excellent case for a balanced course in international organizations. Banton is unafraid to speak from his own long and distinguished service in pursuit of these goals in indicating the failures and weaknesses of UN treaties, conferences and diplomacy. However, in decrying the overly ‘political’ usages of the terms ‘race’ and ‘racism’, he reveals his own stake in the debate. He sees the concepts of human rights as more politically expedient than that of anti-racism, having tighter enforcement mechanisms, enjoyi...

The Pacific Way is an effort to understand the process and status of regional cooperation among the island nations of the South Pacific. The study covers all intergovernmental cooperative arrangements—outside of the United Nations system—that have regular meetings and a membership of at least three sovereign countries from the South Pacific. The purpose of to sketch the details of regional cooperation, the prospects for a more coherent structure for cooperation in this region, make a contribution to theories of regional integration" on a

The conventional wisdom in the major international development agencies today is that government is largely responsible for the Third World's disappointing economic performance and that markets are the remedy for most of these problems. Even within the mainstream, however, there remains a healthy degree of skepticism about these neoclassical views, so the Overseas Development Council (ODC) in 1985 brought together several experts to review the current state of development strategy. Eight papers emerging from that conference are reproduced here, the fifth volume of ODCs series on United States-...

 Abstract The issue of the inheritance of the divorced woman in death in international private relations is one of the modern and important topics in our time, because the many problems between spouses have led to the occurrence of the divorce of the fugitive and the absolute deprivation of the inheritance of his divorced woman from the inheritance when he falls into a fatal disease, and With regard to his assets in a country other than the divorced country, by resorting to a court that replaces the assets of the divorced inheritor, in order to take preventive measures on his money. The main ...

The authors show that economic development increases the probability that a country will undergo a transition to democracy. These results contradict the finding of Przeworski and his as-sociates, that development causes democracy to last but not to come into existence in the first place. By dealing adequately with problems of sample selection and model specification, the authors discover that economic growth does cause nondemocracies to democratize. They show that the effect of economic development on the probability of a transition to democracy in the hun-dred years between the mid-nineteenth...

The Program in International Relations (IR) offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate major, minor and honors program allowing students to explore how global, regional and domestic factors influence relations between actors on the world stage. The program equips students with the skills and knowledge necessary to analyze choices and challenges that arise in this arena. IR majors pursue study in world politics, including courses in Political Science, Economics, History, languages, and other fields focusing on issues such as international security, political economy, economic development, and de...

The current AAT user base consists primarily of visual re source collections and archives which process and analyze such "non-book" materials as slides (36%), photographs (17%), archival materials (21%), and other visual materials (19%). Another important group of users are abstracting and indexing projects (9%) who analyze the contents of scholarly journals and other publications. Most have become inter ested in the AAT because they are creating computerized databases (80%) and require a standard descriptive vocabu lary. The primary subject areas of these collections are archi tecture (43%) o...

Following on from her Postmodern Platos (1996), which dealt with postmodern interpreters of Plato (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss and Derrida), Catherine Zuckert has now turned her interest in Plato to an attempt to understand the whole of Plato’s dialogues. Very few scholars have dared to grapple with the whole corpus of Platonic dialogues in a single volume, and none before has made an attempt in one volume to understand the whole of the 35 dialogues by the ordering of their dramatic dates. Starting with the pre-philosophic foundation of the city per se and that which comes from the ...

Today's world is more interconnected than ever before: what happens “here” affects what happens “there” and vice versa. The economic fortunes of countries, firms, and individuals have become so sensitive to trade, monetary, and investment decisions made elsewhere that economic policy that is purely national has become all but impossible. Nuclear weapons, which can kill thousands in minutes, do not respect international boundaries; neither do the consequences of ethnic and communal conflicts. Non-state actors, from terrorists to human rights activists, also act across boundaries. The Internet h...

In a strategic age characterised by the doctrine of pre-emption, one could be forgiven for assuming that deterrence, the staple of cold-war strategy, was past its prime. Not so, argues Lawrence Freedman in this compelling primer on the contemporary utility of deterrence. Freedman argues that the steady and institutionalised patterns of deterrence experienced during the cold war were the exception, not the rule. The challenge now is to re-learn deterrence. Freedman suggests what he describes as a ‘normsbased approach’ that ‘requires reinforcing certain values to the point where it is well under...