Academic Articles & Research Papers

The China Gambit: Geoeconomics and the US’ Turn to Informal Data Governance Initiatives

In October 2023, the US withdrew its proposals on cross-border data flows at the World Trade Organization (WTO), reversing its long-held position on binding commitments against data localization. Concurrently, it has orchestrated the creati...

The history of BRICS' International Relations (2009-2019): discourses, innovation and senstitivities

The article discuss the main historical movements on BRICS international relations between 2009-2019: the emergence of narratives about success and failure of the BRICS; the capability of BRICS to promote innovations in the global order, an...

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...

Economic Recession Forecast Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the 1929 Economic Recession Model

While identifying the causes of the COVID-19 disease and investigating the roots of the economic crisis from 1929 to 1932, this research attempts to forecast the economic recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic according to the 1929 ...

GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES: HOW WANEP PLAYS ITS ROLE IN WEST AFRICA IN 2019

Many reports in the mass media regarding the humanitarian crisis caused by economic and political instability in West Africa continued to become headlines that were widely discussed throughout 2019. The saying "there will be no smoke if the...

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations

This book is about the global resurgence of culture and religion in international relations, and how these social changes are transforming our understanding of International Relation theory, and the k...

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...

International relations

Self and Other in International Relations

The study of identity offers a possibility to theorize on the human collectives of world politics, to give them an ontological status, and to discuss how they are constituted and maintain themselves. The first part discusses social theorizi...

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...

Tragedy and International Relations

Nowhere are clashes between competing ethical perspectives more prevalent than in the realm of International Relations. Thus, understanding tragedy is directly relevant to understanding IR. This volum...

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...

Secrecy and International Relations

Abstract This article analyzes the question of information control and how it influences the conduct and the study of international relations. Three theories are advanced as possible explanations for secrecy: The first, the External Threat ...

International Relations of Social Change

International relations and the study of social change world society and world-systemic dynamics of change cross-border transmission of social change international activity and social change international order and social change facets of w...

International Relations

Abstract “International relations” refers to relations that cross national boundaries, especially political relations among states. At the root of international relations is international politics, though social, cultural, economic, and geo...

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 ...