Academic Articles & Research Papers

Civilized state and reaction in international relations

The purpose of this study is to investigate how civilization as an emerging phenomenon is influential in the international system. The research method is descriptive-analytical, and the data were collected with library method. The result of...

Agents, Structures and International Relations

The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR th...

Thinking International Relations Differently

A host of voices has risen to challenge Western core dominance of the field of International Relations (IR), and yet, intellectual production about world politics continues to be highly skewed. This book is the second volume in a trilogy of...

The Restructuring of International Relations Theory

In this book Mark Neufeld argues that the predominance of the positivist approach to the study of international politics has meant that theory committed to human emancipation remains poorly developed. He suggests that International Relation...

The State and International Relations

Abstract The state is central to the study of international relations and will remain so into the foreseeable future. State policy is the most common object of analysis. States decide to go to war. They erect trade barriers. They choose whe...

从公共外交的视角看中国国家形象宣传片效果/Assessing the Effect of China's National Publicity Films from the Perspective of Public Diplomacy

本文以2011年美国曼哈顿广场上的中国国家形象宣传片为对象，对其效果进行了实证性评估。为此，笔者给出了衡量国家形象宣传片效果的一般性标准和指标。其中，衡量标准是看其在投放后是否改善了美国民众对中国的形象认知；量化指标分别是：目标国媒体报道的数量与报道的倾向性、目标国民众的参与度与民众的态度倾向和目标国民众的行为。通过分析发现，2011年中国国家形象宣传片并没有达到预期的乐观效果。美国主流媒体报道偏少、报道颇为负面；美国民众参与度低，对国家形象宣传片和中国的好感度不高；宣传片的...

On the Etymology of Self-Designation of Georgians - “Kartveli”

The etymology of self-designation of Georgians has not been solved definitely, even though a number of articles have been devoted to the etymology of the term. There does not exist a generally shared opinion around the issue. A review of th...

Historical Sociology of International Relations

Part I. Introduction: 1. What's at stake in 'bringing historical sociology back into international relations?' John M. Hobson 2. Historical sociology: back to the future of international relations? Stephen Hobden Part II. Historical Sociolo...

The Power of Words in International Relations

The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analyzed through the lens of whaling politics. In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censu...

Understanding International Relations

The fourth edition of this well-established and popular introductory textbook has been updated to cover recent developments in the field of International Relations and world events, whilst still navigating the complexities of the discipline...

Human Rights in International Relations

This new edition of David Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human righ...

The Impact and Response of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: A Multidimensional Analysis in China

It is noteworthy that as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third year, China still maintains a firm position consistent with that of the previous year, endeavouring to promote peace talks and ceasefires. This paper employs the content analy...

Strategic Choice and International Relations

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. W...

The Political Economy of International Relations

Cluster approach in organization of transportation in the Baltic Sea Region

The urgency of the issues discussed in this paper stems from the fact that cross-border collaboration is an essential part of commercial transportation today. With the extension of multimodal transportation concept, the efficiency and perfo...

Contextual Analysis of Hong Kong Education Policy in 20 Years: The Intention of Making Future Citizens in Political Conflicts

Originally, the capitalist society in Hong Kong under communism is exceptional, but the “one country, two systems” formula was a makeshift stratagem by the Communist Chinese government. The twenty years of history witnessed the tension of r...

Low-Level Progress, High-Level Fragility: The Sustainability Gap in Anti-Corruption Reform in Kyrgyzstan

Anti-corruption reform in Kyrgyzstan has generated measurable institutional and administrative outputs, yet its accountability function is less durable than formal institutionalization suggests. This article develops the concept of the sust...

Power and International Relations

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 1930s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars—especially in America. ...

Cyberpolitics in International Relations

An examination of the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory and the practice of international relations. Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today's world. Until recently, its political impact was ...

Causation in International Relations

World political processes, such as wars and globalisation, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or en...