Top Research Papers on International Relations

How things ‘relate’ is, in no small measure, a foundational matter of concern in science and technology studies (STS), especially in the small world that I have come to inhabit, namely, the scholarly community surrounding actor-network theory (ANT). The materialsemiotic approach adopted by actor-network scholars was, in fact, originally developed to trace how ‘associations’ (big and small, human and nonhuman) hold together or are blasted apart. As a member of this camp, the author conceives of scientific communication as an object of disciplinary ‘relating’ (or ‘associating’) and shows evidenc...

It is important that the discipline of International Relations should address the issue of disease and more broadly, health, not simply to facilitate containment of disease transmission across international borders but also because central notions of justice, equity, efficiency and order are involved.

This guide is meant to provide a starting point of suggested sources for research for topics related to the study of International Relations and politics.

Experiences and practices of international crisis management by the four great powers (America, Europe Union, China and Russia) before and after the Cold War, and the operation of the transitional period for the recognition of the international system and the complex situation is an important scientific . Experiences and perspectives of each of the major powers in the management of international crises of the military, political, economic and strategic culture stems but what is essential in the development of the international system and its impact on the decision-making structure. Thus, an im...

In a response to my critics I further elaborate some of the concepts central to A Cultural Theory of International Relations. I explain why it is a cultural theory, as distinct from a theory of culture; the different levels of reason conceptualised by the Greeks and their utility in moving our thinking beyond the exclusive focus on instrumental rationality of modern social science; and Aristotle's concept of anger and its implications for the behaviour of the weak and the powerful. I justify my case selection and its Western bias, but defend the universality of my theory and its non-hegemonic ...

The nature of Roman Republican international relations The history of Rome's interstate relations began, in Roman national mythology, with a striking example of the interplay between what can be loosely termed “domestic” and “international” amicitia . According to Livy, when Aeneas first arrived on Italian shores and entered the aboriginal kingdom of Latinus, the two leaders immediately established friendly relations. Latinus “by extending his right hand [to Aeneas], sanctified the good faith of the friendship that would be” ( dextra data fidem futurae amicitiae sanxisse ). The two then added ...

Abstract Within the international community of scholars interested in the behavioral study of international relations is a group of individuals comprising the Committee on International Relations of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). With less than a dozen members at any one time, the group is most informal, having no prescribed charter, organizational structure (other than the role of Chairman), or delimited term of membership. The Committee exists to encourage behavioral science research on problems in international relations, but implicitly at least, most if n...

A casual observer might expect that international lawyers and international relations scholars would share overlapping research interests and scholarly agendas. In fact, for several decades prior to the Second World War, practitioners in both fields pursued common interests in the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. As a matter of disciplinary history, however, World War II served as a watershed event, largely discrediting international law among political scientists as “realist” theorists rejected the notion that international law could serve as a meaningful constrai...

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Part 1: Introduction 1. Communities of Practice Part 2: Cognitive Evolution 2. From Being to Becoming: Cognitive Evolution and a Theory of Non-equilibrium in International Relations 3. Cognitive Evolution: A Dynamic Approach for the Study of International Relations and Their Progress 4. Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics Part 3: Epistemic Communities 5. Ideological 'Guerrillas' and the Quest for Technological Autonomy: Brazil's Domestic Computer Industry 6. The Emergence of Cooperation: National Epistemic Communities and the International Evolution of the Idea of Nucle...

1. Emancipatory International Relations: A First Cut 2. Between Rationalism and Empiricism: An Emancipatory Reading of Immanuel Kant's International Relations 3. Neo-Kantian Emancipatory Visions and Revisions 4. Marxism, Linklater and Critical Theory 5. Nietzsche: Founder of Postmodernism? 6. Postmodernist International Relations Discourse 7. Feminist Tensions in the Shadows of Modernist International Relations Theory 8. Postmodernist International Relations Feminist Theory: Can One Avoid the Maelstrom? 9. Conclusion

In the 21 years since the conclusion of the Second World War, a complicated, piecemeal framework of trading arrangements under various international organizations has been created. Now there is concern, internationally and domestically, as to whether this framework is a durable basis for expanded world trade.

Author, Assoc. JUDr. Ján Azud, DrSc., researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, leading Slovak expert on issues of international law, currently working as a university teacher at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, in Part I of his work, published as teaching texts, it deals with basic aspects of international relations and international law. An attempt is made to present a picture of the mentioned issue, its development from 1945 to the fall of bipolarity and its subsequent new formation of content, chiefs and tasks...

. Extreme tourism is the pinnacle of all tourism. When a person has already achieved a lot in overcoming obstacles found in mountain passes and rapids, a feeling immediately arises that something is missing, indicating that it is finally time to step over the line. Extreme is not a sport, it is a pleasure and an interesting pastime. Extreme tourism is a way of life! Rafting on turbulent rivers, skiing trips, diving into the depths of the oceans, and "soaring" in the clouds - this is what recreation looks like now, replacing the previous "beach-hotel" tourism.

. Continuous development and transition to a green economy are important issues for both the global economy and regions and countries. The development of the economy and the transition to a green economy reflect many issues such as the rapidly increasing world population, the degradation of the environment, the rapid depletion of natural resources, and the impact of economic activity on the global situation. Transitioning to a green economy is essential for reducing the rapid depletion of natural resources and preserving the environment. This reduces waste, improves air and water quality, and ...

Arsip Kuliah Online 2011 menjelaskan hubungan Hukum Internasional dan Hubungan Internasional

. The period from 2018 to 2021 saw a notable expansion in Sino-Russian collaboration in the field of nanotechnology. This partnership has been instrumental in enabling Russia to navigate the challenges posed by Western economic sanctions and to ensure the continued development and innovation of its high-tech industries. China has played a pivotal role in enabling the Russian Federation to circumvent EU and US technological sanctions through substantial financial investments, joint research initiatives, and strategic trade agreements, thereby strengthening Russia's nanotechnology capabilities. ...

. In this article, the integration processes between Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Georgia are considered through the indicators of integratedness of Azerbaijan’s GDP and the trade turnover of this country with the other two. All considered time series are non-stationary. So, there are problems of correct modeling of the corresponding time series, the components of which lead to a deviation from stationarity. The publication uses an econometric cointegration methodology for modeling the relationship between the non-stationary time series. A dynamic model of the long-term equilibrium is built, allowi...

It is a pleasure to welcome this student textbook from a trio of authors, two of them closely connected with The Round Table. It was conceived and gestated as they taught together a successful undergraduate course at the University of Kent and is designed for International Relations novices (IR) ‘who need some history’. As a historian who needs some IR, I found it equally useful and, as I was reading it, while following media coverage of the debates and decisions over intervention in Syria, it was a good prophylactic against woolly thinking, specious arguments and inflated rhetoric. The book i...

Part I. International Regimes Theory: Does Law Matter?: 1. Structural causes and regime consequences: regime as intervening variables (1982) Stephen D. Krasner 2. The demand for international regimes (1982) Robert O. Keohane Part II. Commitment and Compliance: 3. Democratic states and commitments in international relations (1996) Kurt Taylor Gaubatz 4. On compliance (1993) Abram Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes 5. Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation (1996) George Downs, David M. Rocke and Peter Barsoom Part III. Legalization and its Limits: 6. The concept of legaliza...

The disciplines of international law and international relations are inextricably linked. Both are concerned with the activities of states and with predicting how states behave and on what basis.For the international lawyer, however, the key concern is the role of the law. On the other hand, political scientists have traditionally regarded international law with skepticism, if not contempt. In recent years new approaches in both disciplines have seen moves towards greater interdisciplinary collaboration. Indeed, at the start of the twenty-first century, theorists from both disciplines are talk...

. The period between 2014 and 2019 represented a pivotal era in the evolution of Sino-Ukrainian economic collaboration under the tenure of Petro Poroshenko. This paper examines the intensification of bilateral ties, with a particular focus on key sectors such as the chemical, metallurgy, and IT industries; automotive and furniture trade; and agricultural exports. Furthermore, the study examines the rising Chinese exports of electronics to Ukraine and the overall expansion of bilateral trade. The roles of Ukrainian leaders, including President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Ministers Arseniy Yatseniuk...

The breadth of international law and institutions in contemporary global politics means it is no longer possible to make sense of international politics without understanding international law. International Law for International Relations provides students with comprehensive coverage that maps out the different ways to approach the study of international law. It explains the institutions and main sources of international law-making and identifies the key topics of international law. This is the ideal text for students of international relations who have not previously studied law and post-gra...

. This article gives a quick overview of the evolution of cross-national cooperation through various historical periods. A comparison of the present globalization process with the oldest types of state interactions was conducted, and several factors that directly or indirectly influenced the simplicity of international cooperation were identified. The key stages of development and legislation creation that affected the growth of commercial ties between states and foreign firms were emphasized. Globalization's manifestations in numerous realms of human life, its influence on life and the sphere...

1. History and International Relations: Contrasts and Comparisons 2. War 3. Peace 4. Sovereignty 5. Empire 6. International Organisation 7. Identity

. The article analyses the interrelationships between the main components of socio-economic development levels in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan. The purpose of this work is to construct a cross-country regression model of per capita economic growth in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan and to conduct a cross-country comparative analysis of the main components of inclusive growth under the strong influence of both countries. The aim of this research is to enable empirical study of the joint movement of both indicators, determine cause-effect relationships and co-integration dependenc...

The idea of creating an international police force (IPF) was first mooted by Lord David Davies in the 1930s. In 1963 U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, then claimed that he had ‘no doubt that the world should eventually have an international police force’. Yet our international system has been and continues to be based on states, their sovereignty and a correlative ‘inside/outside’ distinction: a distinction which is resistant to this idea of some form of systematic international policing writ large. Instead of the establishment of an IPF, a new form of international policing ha...

Scholars have yet to incorporate the phenomenon of growing conflict between states over population movements into their understanding of international migration and international relations. This article advances and analyzes three propositions: (1) relations between states are influenced by their actions or inactions vis-a-vis international migration; (2) governments affect international migration through their rules for the exit and entry of peoples; and (3) international migrants often become a political force in the country in which they reside. A fourth idea is proposed "namely that the in...

. EU Global Strategy of 2016 assesses vulnerabilities and fragility in the eastern and southern neighbourhoods as a threat to the security of the Union and addresses them with a relatively new concept of resilience building. Given undertheorizing of the concept as well as the EU’s intention to employ the resilience as a tool of its foreign and security policy to its neighbourhoods, the author aims to show the particularities of the Eastern and Central European states’ approach to resilience. This could provide some corrections to the EU tailored-made to each region policies and measuring of re...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

For some time now the theory of nuclear deterrence has stood on shaky foundations. Political philosophers, and strategic theorists, as well as U.S. and French clerics have recognized the paradoxical nature of the deterrent threat in the nuclear age: the seeming irrationality of response once deterrence fails, and the dilemma of disassociating the threat from the use of nuclear weapons. Given such contradictions, Frank Zagare observes, "If deterrence were a building, it would probably be condemned" (p. 1). His goal in this book, therefore, is to provide a sturdier framework on which to place th...

This chapter offers a postcolonial critique of the discipline of international relations, which constitutes itself as a discipline by defining a unique and distinct object: the “anarchy” that prevails in the international realm, where unlike the “domestic” realm, there is no sovereign power. In defining its object thus, it also assumes that the international order is composed of sovereign states. But until a few decades ago empires covered the larger surface of the globe and included the majority of its people. The discipline manages the extraordinary feat of either forgetting this altogether ...

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...

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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...

This is an important book on an important subject. The past 10 years have seen a flood of theories that purport to explain the behavior of governments in issues of foreign economic policy, theories based on the simple calculus of organized group interests, on the role of the hegemon, and on the conditioning power of economic culture. It is refreshing to look closely at the complex processes of a major economic negotiation, constantly looking for evidence of the utility of the various theories. Predictably, nothing seems to work in quite the way the theories project. Those who prefer to think t...

Reviewer: KENNETH CHRISTIE (Zayed University, Dubai) lead lives as individuals. At the same time, they must not become idolatry. States also have rationales, and these must be respected. The book is based partly on lectures given by Ignatieff and also draws on commentary from other experts in the area, including K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laquer and Diane F. Orentlicher. It combines interesting political theory with real-world observations, and draws its strength from the dialogue between the main author and commentators.

Global Civil Society (GCS) is a tantalizing concept within contemporary political discourse, yet the term sometimes seems to offer a catch-all for all kinds of opposition groups and proffered alternatives. Mary Kaldor recognizes this conceptual uncertainty, but insists that the idea of GCS ‘expresses a very real phenomenon, even if the boundaries of the phenomenon vary according to different definitions’ (p. 3). The book offers a useful historical survey of the concept, from Plato to post-modernism, to help explain its re-emergence, and its potential, in the context of globalization. Drawing h...

Manfred Lachs has had a 40-year career in international law, as diplomat, scholar, teacher, and, most recently, judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ). His interests include disarmament (as architect of the Nuclear Free Zone in Central Europe in 1958); peaceful use of outer space (as chairperson of the UN Legal Subcommittee); legal control over local government; and international dispute settlement under the ICJ. The 50 essays in this volume (22 of them in French) reflect this diversity of both subject matter and authors' backgrounds (writers, scholars, practitioners, judges, and ju...

In his preface, he promises a ‘clearly articulated vision of global civil society’, and he does, to some extent, deliver on this promise. His vision is intensely liberal, some would even say neo-liberal, rather than radical or cosmopolitan. He takes clear positions on two major definitional disputes: profit-making corporations are included in global civil society, but any use of violence is out. One of the most interesting features of the book is the attention to non-Western, particularly Islamic, antecedents of (global) civil society. An astounding omission is the complete lack of any referen...

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...

extent to which both thinkers lived according to their philosophical principles. Ironically, Hume’s reasonableness sees him generally cast in a better light than Rousseau, while surprisingly it is le bon David – and not the great autobiographer – who appears most concerned with his reputation in the quarrel’s aftermath. The danger of such an approach is that the reader may be tempted to judge the philosophy by the philosopher, and the claim that Rousseau and Hume offer the best critiques of reason is never substantiated in depth. Hume’s critique is well known, but Rousseau’s is often overlooke...

This paper explores various generalizations of the Mitchell order focusing mostly on a generalization called the internal relation. The internal relation lacks the implicit strength requirement in the definition of the Mitchell order, and therefore can fail to be wellfounded. We establish some constraints on the illfoundedness of the internal relation, which leads to a proof of a conjecture of Steel regarding rank-to-rank cardinals.

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.

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...

 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 ...