Academic Articles & Research Papers

International Law, International Relations and Compliance

Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decades the long-standing divide between ...

Global Health and International Relations

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr; Global Health and International Relations, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 792–794, ht...

Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations

Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: Survey of Geopolitics Chapter 3: Geopolitical Structure and Theory Chapter 4: The Cold War and Its Aftermath Chapter 5: North and Middle America Chapter 6: South America Chapter 7: Maritime Europe and the Magh...

Achieving Consensus in the South China Sea: Explaining Bilateralism's Bane and Multilateralism's Boon

A prolonged debate arises whether bilateralism or multilateralism is the most effective path to achieve mutual consensus among parties in the South China Sea dispute. This study identifies bilateral approach negativity to settle such a comp...

1919–1920 metų Lietuvos nepriklausomybės karo nominacijos ir pripažinimai | Names and Recognition of the Lithuanian War of Independence, 1919–1920

Correlates of War (COW), an ongoing project initiated in the United States to monitor all the wars around the globe, covers the Estonian and Latvian wars of independence, and the war between Poland and Russia, but does not represent the Lit...

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...

International Relations in a Constructed World

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and na...

Rationality in International Relations

Rationalist models have faced four persistent sets of critics as the research program of international relations has evolved. Under neorealism's structural constraints of international competition and selection, agents' rationality may appe...

On constitution and causation in International Relations

Within the community of academic students of international politics today there is a deep epistemological rift over the extent to and ways in which we can know our subject. Speaking very broadly, on one side stand what have become known as ...

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...

Playing Games with International Relations

After reviewing the advantages and disadvantages in using simulations to teach International Relations, this paper develops pedagogy for using simulations to teach International Relations (IR) theory. After discussing methods for integratin...

Power and International Relations

The Environment and International Relations

The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate...

The Environment and international relations

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 Balance of Power in International Relations

The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also played a key role in some of the most important attempts to develop a theory of international...

Power and International Relations

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...

International Relations