Academic Articles & Research Papers

Human wrongs and international relations

The following is an edited text of the second John Vincent Memorial Lecture delivered at Keele University on 6 May 1994.*...

Environmental Peacebuilding and Solar Geoengineering

Solar geoengineering, or reflecting incoming sunlight to cool the planet, has been viewed by international relations and governance scholars as an approach that could exacerbate conflict. It has not been examined through the framework of en...

Institutional Determinants of International Production in Russia

The article analyses institutional determinants of foreign direct investment that substantially influences international production in Russia. Author pays special attention on the following determinants as legal infrastructure, protection p...

School of Political Science

Out of all the departments of political sciences in Russia - the Department at MGIMO-University is probably the oldest one. In fact it is very young. While MGIMO-University is celebrating its 70th anniversary the Department of Political Sci...

Elaborating a Methodology for Gauging a Politician’s Communicative Personality

Communicative behaviour studies require using numerous methodological approaches depending on the goal and tasks of research. Linguopolitical personology conceives of political communication as an institutionalized phenomenon aimed at holdi...

Explaining Escalation: The Security Dilemma in Three Contemporary International Conflicts

This paper analyzes the security dilemma through a comparative qualitative study of three conflicts: Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and Thailand–Cambodia. Despite differences in geography, scale, and actors, all three cases show how mist...

FRONTEIRAS ESTRATEGICAS: as Antilhas sob a ótica da diplomacia brasileira, 1947-1953

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir, sob a ótica da diplomacia brasileira, aspectos das relações internacionais nas Antilhas, enfatizando a sua condição de fronteiras estratégicas no âmbito da política anticomunista norte-americana entre 1...

Queer International Relations

Queer International Relations (IR) is not a new field.For more than 20 years, Queer IR scholarship has focused on how normativities and/or non-normativities associated with categories of sex, gender, and sexuality sustain and contest intern...

Normative Theory in International Relations

Normative theory in international relations, as it is discussed at present in the framework of the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate, is in a condition of stasis. Cosmopolitan and communitarian positions are generally assumed to be irreconc...

Constructivism and International Relations

The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations

Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations. E...

Justice in International Relations

Human Rights in International Relations

This new textbook provides an introduction to human rights in international relations at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines the policy-making process that establishes and tries to apply human rights norms through the Un...

Bringing Religion into International Relations

This book has several main themes and arguments. International Relations has been westerncentric, which has contributed to its ignoring religion; while religion is not the main driving force behind IR...

Science, technology and international relations

The Middle East in International Relations

The international relations of the Middle East have long been dominated by uncertainty and conflict. External intervention, interstate war, political upheaval and interethnic violence are compounded by the vagaries of oil prices and the cla...

A history of international relations theory

This book traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. It disc...

Genocide and International Relations

Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political and cultural context in which the fie...

Progress in Postwar International Relations

Defining and conceptualizing progress in international relations, by Emanuel Adler, Beverly Crawford, and Jack DonnellyCognitive evolution: a dynamic approach for the study of international relations and their progress, by Emanuel AdlerChan...

Constructivism and International Relations

This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt. Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly...