Academic Articles & Research Papers

Glimpse at EU–China relationships since 2008

United Europe-China relations have a long history. For many years they have developed successfully, but not along a simple course. The main thesis of this article is that the year 2008, which is associated primarily with the onset of the fi...

Client or Volunteer? Understanding Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Within International Volunteer Health Work

As international volunteer health work increases globally, research pertaining to the social organizations that coordinate the volunteer experience in the Global South has severely lagged. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to criti...

Humanitarian diplomacy and the countries of the Global South: Trends and discourses

In recent years, discussions about the essence of humanitarization and humanization of international relations have intensified due to the aggravation of economic, social, and ethical problems against the background of a sharp deterioration...

Drama-based therapy program in the recovery of adults with addictive disorders

Introduction Following the pandemic, we can find many new communication situations. Social relationships have changed a lot and are developing differently due to digital development, new lifestyles, and the effects of COVID-19. These compon...

Features of the chinese network literature

The article discusses the history of the development of network literature in China, as well as its place in modern society. Modern literature has lost its homogeneous nature, divided into the one that exists in the traditional form of pape...

International Law and International Relations

This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second...

Hedging in international relations: an introduction

In recent years, the concept of ‘hedging’ has risen to prominence in international relations discourse. Hedging normally refers in that context to a national security or alignment strategy, undertaken by one state toward another, featuring ...

Introduction to International Relations

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theo...

The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

Introduction: Africa's International Relations 1. The Times They Are(N't) A-Changing: American Policies in Africa 2. Of Spin and Mirrors: Britain and New Labour's Policies Towards Africa 3. Effronterie Magnifique: Between La Rupture and Rea...

Hugo Grotius and International Relations

Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), ‘the miracle of Holland’, was famous as a child prodigy, theologian, historian, poet, jurist, Dutch political figure, escaped political prisoner, and finally as Sweden's ambassador to France. He is especially known...

Posthuman International Relations

About the authors Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in international politics and sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexi...

Microfoundations in international relations

Many of our theories of international politics rely on microfoundations. In this short note, I suggest that although there has been increasing interest in microfoundations in international relations (IR) over the past 20 years, the frequenc...

Regime Theory and International Relations

Abstract International regimes are systems of norms and rules agreed upon by states to govern their behaviour in specific political contexts or `issue areas' whether this be trade policy, proliferation of nuclear weapons, or the control of ...

The Study of International Relations

Human wrongs and international relations

The following is an edited text of the second John Vincent Memorial Lecture delivered at Keele University on 6 May 1994.*...

Tenor of discourse in translated diglossic Indonesian film subtitles

This paper examines the challenges posed by the diglossic nature of the Indonesian language in translating film dialogue into English-language subtitles. Indonesian is based on dialects of Malay, which by the 19th Century had become the lin...

Environmental Peacebuilding and Solar Geoengineering

Solar geoengineering, or reflecting incoming sunlight to cool the planet, has been viewed by international relations and governance scholars as an approach that could exacerbate conflict. It has not been examined through the framework of en...

School of Political Science

Out of all the departments of political sciences in Russia - the Department at MGIMO-University is probably the oldest one. In fact it is very young. While MGIMO-University is celebrating its 70th anniversary the Department of Political Sci...

Symposium on Muslims in Europe

The question of a Muslim minority in the Western context has become an important one in view of some h-and-hysteria literatu~th at continues to depict this minority as a threat to Western liberal values and sociopolitical systems. The confe...

Elaborating a Methodology for Gauging a Politician’s Communicative Personality

Communicative behaviour studies require using numerous methodological approaches depending on the goal and tasks of research. Linguopolitical personology conceives of political communication as an institutionalized phenomenon aimed at holdi...