Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Les relations entre l’Europe du Nord et la Russie post-soviétique à travers le prisme de la conservation de la nature

Taking a critical geopolitical approach, this article shows how Europe has been mobilized as a geographical object for thinking about and putting into practice transnational environmental conservation between Finland, Norway and Russia sinc...

The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations

How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations , the author offers a new answer to this perennial question in international relations, arguing that power...

Non-Western International Relations Theory

Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher pr...

What is History in International Relations?

To some extent, history has always been a core feature of the international imagination. On both sides of the Atlantic, leading figures in the discipline such as E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, Martin Wight, Hedley Bull and Stanley Hoffman hav...

International Relations

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...

Dynamics of International Relations

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...

Casticin as potential anticancer agent: recent advancements in multi-mechanistic approaches

Plants, with their range of pharmacologically active molecules, represent the most promising source for the production of new anticancer drugs and for the formulation of adjuvants in chemotherapy treatments to reduce drug content and/or cou...

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...

Te Tapatoru: a model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing

ABSTRACTWhanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisatio...

TO THE QUESTION ABOUT QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE OF GRADUATES EDUCATION IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

The article deals with the market knowledge and the activities of educational institutions, the conclusion about the necessity of reforming the system of high school based on the concept of open education is determined by the economic impac...

International Relations and Identity

International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alteri...

Pragmatism and International Relations

Gunther Hellmann Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University When Stanley Hoffmann characterized International Relations (IR) as an “American Social Science,” the America he referred to mainly stood for two things: a world power in search of a broade...

The International Relations of the Persian Gulf

Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the...

Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations

This essay uses Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, one of the most widely read accounts of international politics in recent years, as a vehicle to rethink International Relations' engagement with the notion of empire. We begin with t...

The assumption of anarchy in international relations theory: a critique

‘Anarchy is one of the most vague and ambiguous words in language.’ George Coreewall Lewis, 1832. In much current theorizing, anarchy has once again been declared to be the fundamental assumption about international politics. Over the last ...

The logic of habit in International Relations

IR theory is dominated by the logics of consequentialism and appropriateness. But Max Weber offered four logics of choice, not just two. Beyond the instrumental rationality of Zweckrationalität and the normative rationality of Wertrationali...

Modem International Relations Theory: A Prospectus for International Lawyers

In 1985, in a book entitled World Politics and International Law, Francis Boyle delivered a caustic critique of the work of international legal scholars: "contemporary public international lawyers have developed a highly formalistic and exc...