Academic Articles & Research Papers

2023 WEST COAST SECURITY CONFERENCE WELCOMING REMARKS DAY 3

On November 15, 2023, Mr. John Pyrik presented the opening address for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were the introduction of speakers for the international perspectives panel of the CASIS conference a...

A Systematic Review of Literature and Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Capital Structure Issue

Economists have been dealing with the issue of using sources of financing in business activities for more than half a century. The search for a suitable combination of equity and debt financing has led to a number of studies and later theor...

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Good Partners Make Good Relationships

This paper analyses the perception of the new member states of the EU (the 2004 and 2007 entrants) by the old member states’ representatives. The text utilizes an updated version of image theory and it is based on 24 interviews with diploma...

Multilateral Diplomacy as China’s Expansionism in ACFTA

ACFTA or ASEAN-China Free Trade Area, also known as China-ASEAN Free Trade Area is an economic agreement to construct a free trade zone between 10 ASEAN member countries and China to eliminate various tariff and non-tariff barriers. All of ...

Essentials of international relations

Taking a balanced view of major theoretical approaches, including liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and constructivism, Mingst (University of Kentucky) provides analytical tools students need to understand world political affairs at the indivi...

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...

Federalism and International Relations

Abstract Federalism and International Relations is the first comparative study of an increasingly important phenomenon: the international role and activities of component units of major liberal democratic federal States. The first part of t...

The Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism: Structure, mission, and politics

This paper is a preliminary examination of the newly established Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT). IMAFT's membership includes Arab and Muslim states in the continents of Asia and Africa, and encompasses considerable mil...

Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems: a path to improved agro-economic performance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

Diversified sustainable agricultural systems, such as integrated crop-livestock-forest systems (ICLFs), offer substantial potential for enhancing food production to meet the increasing global demand for agricultural goods while, simultaneou...

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...

Islam and International Relations

Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations. This collection of innovative essays written by Mustapha ...

Theories of International Relations

Universities and professional associations usually are organized in ways that tend to separate scholars in adjoining disciplines and perhaps even to promote stereotypes of each other and their scholarly endeavors. The seemingly natural area...

The Value Chains of High-Technology Products as Factor of formation the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

This article analyzes the value chain of high-tech products in Asia and the role of this phenomenon in the further consolidation of trade blocs and alliances in the region. The presence of these chains and their gradual transition from a ve...

PROBLEMS OF THE NEW GEOPOLITICS IN THE ARCTIC

The article presents an analysis of the results of the international scientific conference «International problems of the New Geopolitics of the Arctic», held on November 25, 2025 at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Science...

Peace in International Relations

This updated and revised second edition examines the conceptualisation and evolution of peace in International Relations (IR) theory. The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including real...

Peace in International Relations

This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, a...

In the beginning: The International Relations enlightenment and the ends of International Relations theory

The question of endings is simultaneously a question of beginnings: wondering if International Relations is at an end inevitably raises the puzzle of when and how ‘it’ began. This article argues that International Relations’ origins bear st...