Academic Articles & Research Papers

Power and International Relations

Theories of International Relations

This collection of essays demonstrates the continuing importance of the work of Michael Polanyi for the understanding, not only of the great events of the 20th century, but also of the problems that face us in the 21st century. Polanyi move...

Research Methods in International Relations

Introduction Chapter 1: Research Methods in International Relations Chapter 2: Research Questions and Research Design Chapter 3: Research Ethics Chapter 4: Writing a Literature Review Chapter 5: Qualitative Methods in International Relation...

TPP视角下的中美博弈关系/Strategic Game between China and the US from the Perspective of TPP

2008年，始于美国的次贷危机发展演变成席卷全球的金融危机。对此，美国积极调整其全球战略，一方面在军事上实施亚太再平衡战略，将其军事战略重点逐步倾向亚太地区；另一方面，在国际经济领域企图通过主导TPP，构建新的全球经济贸易规则，达到化解国内经济社会矛盾，继续稳固自身超级大国地位的目的。同期，中国经济持续稳定高速增长，国家实力不断增强，国际地位不断提升。本文在简要回顾TPP诞生的国际背景基础上，重点探讨了美国和中国在TPP问题上的不同战略考虑、计划和对策，并指出了中美两国在这个...

International Discussions on Religious Factor in Global Bioethics

The article analyzes the cooperation of UN structures with religious non-governmental organizations, as well as with faith-based communities. The authors consider diff erent levels of the infl uence of the religious factor on the UN activit...

Comparing Alignment and Multiple Group CFA for Analysing Political Trust in Europe During the Crisis

Institutional trust is in decline in many western democracies. Since the 2008 global economic and financial crisis, this increasing distrust has been closely related to trust in political institutions. Trust in institutions is one of the pi...

Influence of Sector, Budget Size and Financing on Time and Cost Management of Czech International Development Projects

Research background: This article focuses on the official Czech international development (ID) aid and the factors affecting the project success in terms of cost and time variance from the plan. As per research by Ahsan and Gunawan (2010), ...

National Human Rights Institutions and ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR): Are They Complementary?

The adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter in 2008 and the establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR) in 2010 have pushed ASEAN to be more responsive to human rights commitme...

Security and International Relations

This textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing readers with the critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author evaluates the claims of rival theories - realism, neorealism,...

The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations

This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years’ War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Tesch...

International Law and International Relations

A casual observer might expect that international lawyers and international relations scholars would share overlapping research interests and scholarly agendas. In fact, for several decades prior to the Second World War, practitioners in bo...

The Making of Global International Relations

This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thin...

Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations

Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY - The Case for International Political Theory - Men and Citizens in International Relations - Internal and External Concepts of Obligation in the Theory of I...

Feminist methodologies for international relations

Introduction 1. Feminist methodologies for international relations Brooke Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True Part I. Methodological Conversations Between Feminist and Non-Feminist International Relations: 2. Feminism meets international r...

The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory

A challenger to the continuing dominance of neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism in the study of international relations in the United States, constructivism is regarded with a great deal of skepticism by mainstream scholars.1 While t...

Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and International Relations.

Ian Livingstone; Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and International Relations., The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 373, 1 March 1984, Pages 191–192, ht...

Inside/outside: international relations as political theory

In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of internation...

Refugees in International Relations

This volume, as they explain, emerged from the editors’ frustration with the relative marginalisation of the issue of refugees from the dominant scholarship within the discipline of International Relations (IR) (p 4). It is an outcome of a ...

International Relations On Film

This exploration of the ways in which feature films depict the various aspects of international relations, considers the utility of the medium as a vehicle to dramatize issues and events, challenge conventional wisdom, rouse an audience to ...

Rights of passage: the passport in international relations

Introduction: Two Narratives of the Passport. Health of the Body Politic. War and Official Movement. Passports and International Society. The Disappearance of Passports. Conclusion: Passports, Identity, and International Relations....