Academic Articles & Research Papers

RUSSIA – CHINA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION: SYNERGIZING GREATER EURASIA WITH BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE, 2016-2018

Since 2017 to 2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders have inherited from the Cold-War. Through the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the rapid increase of U.S aggress...

La transformación de la seguridad en Europa desde la caída del muro de Berlín. Una revisión crítica

En el año 1989 el símbolo de la división de Europa desaparecía gracias a un conjunto variado de circunstancias que convirtieron esa situación en insostenible. Uno de los ámbitos que más se vieron afectados fue el de la seguridad. Hoy 30 año...

International Relations:

Religion and International Relations theory

Until the end of the Cold War, it is not an exaggeration to say that only a few theorists of International Relations (IR) or policy-makers engaged in either substantial investigation or articulation of the links between cultural variables l...

Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World

Cassels offers a novel perspective on the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. His treatment is not restricted to the familiar totalitarian ideologies of communism and nazism, but also includes con...

Justice in International Relations

The question with which we are concerned is how far the state is necessary or sufficient or even relevant as a constituency of human justice. If answers to this question are considered as forming a continuum, at one end all questions of jus...

Controversies in International Relations Theory

This new reader in international theory brings together nine new essays and four classics, two of them heavily revised for republication here, to provide a clear introduction to the two dominent traditions in contemporary international rela...

International Relations Theories

The fifth edition of this text provides coverage of international relations theories and arguments. The chapters explore the full spectrum of theoretical perspectives and debates, ranging from the historically dominant traditions of realism...

Contending Theories Of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey-

(Most chapters end with Conclusion and each chapter ends with Notes.) Preface. 1. Theoretical Approaches to International Relations. Introduction. Early Approaches to International-Relations Theory. Modern Approaches to International-Relati...

Discourse and Emotions in International Relations

The field of International Relations (IR) has recently witnessed the emergence of a wide variety of different approaches to make sense of the many ways emotions work in and through discourse. This forum takes stock of and investigates this ...

Regional Election in Czech Republic 2020

On October 2-3, 2020, regional elections were held in the Czech Republic amid the second wave of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Despite the traditional attitude to this elec- tion as secondary, its significance for the expert community ...

Joint Border of Ukraine and the European Union: Political and Legal Aspects of Cooperation in the Field of Integrated Border Management

The article discusses the political and legal aspects and the dynamics of Ukraine’s interaction with the EU and its Member States in the field of integrated border management in order to improve interagency and international cooperation, in...

DATA & INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY: THE RISK OF AI ENABLED CYBER ATTACKS AND QUANTUM HACKING

On November 21, 2022, Dr. Ryan Prox, Adjunct Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, presented Data & Infrastructure Security: The Risk of AI Enabled Cyber Attacks and Quantum Hacking.  A question-and-answer perio...

La Triple Frontera: el riesgo de la ingobernabilidad

La importancia de la zona desde el punto de vista de la gobernabilidad estatal y de la seguridad, se debe a que desde hace tiempo las autoridades han debido enfrentar un crecimiento de actividades ilícitas, que van desde el contrabando, el ...

Identity and International Relations

Drawing on Kant and Hegel, debates in political theory and international relations generally assume that an identity cannot be created without the simultaneous creation and negative stereotypy of an `other'. Figures such as Schmitt and Hunt...

Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories

This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the ‘civilizational analysis’ approach utilized by scholars of ‘multiple modernities’; and (...

International relations and international law: two optics 1996

Multilateral cooperation was remarkably extensive, indeed unprecedented, in the latter half of the twentieth century. After World War II a compromise was struck in rich countries that John Ruggie has termed embedded liberalism . 1 Increasin...

Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

Journal Article Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations Get access Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations. By Raymond Aron. Trans. by Richard Howard and Annette Baker Fox. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson. 1967. 820 pp. ...

Classics of International Relations

Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualises and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced under...

Russia in contemporary Central Asia

The dissolution of the USSR and creation of the New Independent States (NIS) was accompanied by a rapid deterioration in relationships between the component republics. With the disputable exception of the Baltic States, the close dependence...