Academic Articles & Research Papers

Review of The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations

Book reviews in this journal usually proceed by considering the value of the book in question for Dewey scholarship. In this case I would rather say that this book is of interest to Dewey Scholars. Jackson's general project is heavily infor...

Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy

Scholarship on the politics of secrecy in international relations and foreign policy has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. This article begins by providing an overview of this literature, analyzing the conditions under which le...

The Study of International Relations.

Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations

Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? Richard Wri...

Intellectual property and artificial intelligence

Issues, arising in the field of intellectual property rights in connection with the development of artificial intelligence systems and their impact on the development of legal relations in the economy and culture of modern society, have bee...

Unbacked Cryptomoney, Fiscal Evasion and Environment Tax: Some Policy Recommendations in Europe

In a 2019 New York Times article, Paul Krugman declared himself a “crypto skeptic” and shared his pessimistic predictions for cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, unbacked cryptomoney is now very important in our societies and has revolutionized...

The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations

In any area of scholarly inquiry, there are always several ways in which the phenomena under study may be sorted and arranged for purposes of systemic analysis. Whether in the physical or social sciences, the observer may choose to focus up...

Gender and International Relations

Tereza Kodíc'"kováGender a feminismus patří v české republice zatím k tématům pro člověka s fungujícími sebezáchovnými pudy nepřijatelným.Západní svět se jim věnuje přibližně třicet let a za toto období feminismus vykrystalizoval v legitimn...

International Relations in a Relational Universe

Abstract It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural and social sciences. To do so, more careful reflection is needed on cosmological assumptions in the sciences and also in the study a...

International relations, political theory and the problem of order: beyond international relations theory?

At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the cold war? Are we on...

Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines

This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republ...

China’s Road-map for Regional Cooperation: Building a Community of Shared Future in the South China Sea

The South China Sea (SCS) has long been mired in historical disputes and rising geopolitical tensions, making innovative frameworks necessary to foster regional stability. This article introduces the Community of Shared Future (CSF), China’...

Islamist Terrorist Activity in 2000-2020: A Scoring Methodology

The relevance of the study of Islamist terrorism is due to its destructive impact on national and global security, as well as on the dialogue between Western and Eastern, particularly Muslim, nations since the early 2000s. Islamist terroris...

A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations

In order to avoid both theoretically eclectic and redundant approaches to constructivism, this article proposes one possible and coherent reconstruction of constructivism understood as a reflexive meta-theory. This reconstruction starts by ...

GREAT POWER RIVALRY IN A CHANGING INTERNATIONAL ORDER

The article aimed to comprehensively analyse the great powers' rivalries in the current international political and geopolitical landscape, which may be leading to a changing global order. Great Power in the Changing International Order ref...

Ieșirea din anonimat a memoriei

In the transition process from authoritarianism to democracy, Romania has, nevertheless, omitted something:the confrontation with the communist past. With a few exceptions, used to justify certain transition sideslips (restitutions, privati...

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast’s Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section’s Best Book of the Year award. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides a...

Protecting Autonomy of Rohingya Women in Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions

Photo by Sébastien Goldberg on Unsplash ABSTRACT Rohingya women face challenges that ought to be acknowledged and addressed to ensure that when they seek health care, they can act autonomously and decide freely among available options. ...

Glimpse at EU–China relationships since 2008

United Europe-China relations have a long history. For many years they have developed successfully, but not along a simple course. The main thesis of this article is that the year 2008, which is associated primarily with the onset of the fi...

Symposium on Muslims in Europe

The question of a Muslim minority in the Western context has become an important one in view of some h-and-hysteria literatu~th at continues to depict this minority as a threat to Western liberal values and sociopolitical systems. The confe...