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

Dufková Gabriela, Šaroch Stanislav • SHS Web of Conferences (2021)

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), ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/20219206006

International Law and International Relations

Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Mark A. Pollack • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2012)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139107310.002

An Organizational and Governance Model to Support Mass Collaborative Learning Initiatives

Majid Zamiri, João Sarraipa, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves • Applied Sciences (2022)

Mass collaboration can bring about major transformative changes in the way people can work collectively. This emerging paradigm promises significant economic and social benefits and enhanced efficiency across a range of sectors, including l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app12168356

Agents, Structures and International Relations

Colin Wight • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511491764

从公共外交的视角看中国国家形象宣传片效果/Assessing the Effect of China's National Publicity Films from the Perspective of Public Diplomacy

Cao Wei, Xia Yuchen • Journal of China and International Relations (2015)

本文以2011年美国曼哈顿广场上的中国国家形象宣传片为对象,对其效果进行了实证性评估。为此,笔者给出了衡量国家形象宣传片效果的一般性标准和指标。其中,衡量标准是看其在投放后是否改善了美国民众对中国的形象认知;量化指标分别是:目标国媒体报道的数量与报道的倾向性、目标国民众的参与度与民众的态度倾向和目标国民众的行为。通过分析发现,2011年中国国家形象宣传片并没有达到预期的乐观效果。美国主流媒体报道偏少、报道颇为负面;美国民众参与度低,对国家形象宣传片和中国的好感度不高;宣传片的...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5278/ojs.jcir.v3i2.1311

Diasporas and International Relations Theory

Yossi Shain, Aharon Barth • International Organization (2003)

In this article, we incorporate the study of diasporas into international relations (IR) theory by focusing on diasporas as independent actors who actively influence their homeland (kin-state) foreign policies. We argue that diasporic influ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020818303573015

The Power of Words in International Relations

Charlotte Epstein • The MIT Press eBooks (2008)

The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analyzed through the lens of whaling politics. In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262050920.001.0001

Understanding International Relations

Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley (2019)

The fourth edition of this well-established and popular introductory textbook has been updated to cover recent developments in the field of International Relations and world events, whilst still navigating the complexities of the discipline...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-61172-7

Human Rights in International Relations

David P. Forsythe • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

This new edition of David Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human righ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511808357

Architectural diplomacy: a historical review of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology

Fei Yu, Norihito Nakatani, Yiling Hua, Lu Ye • Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (2026)

By tracing the historical activities of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology (JCSABT, 1973–2003), which was established in Japan in 1973, this study firstly provides an overview of the friendly exchange groups vis...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/13467581.2026.2645323

Nuclear-Conventional Entanglement in Northeast Asia: The Case for Crisis Management Interoperability

Benjamin Zala • Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (2024)

The dangers associated with the entanglement of nuclear and conventional forces have become an area of increasing concern. In this article, I survey the growing nuclear-conventional entanglement risks in Northeast Asia as well as the ways i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/25751654.2024.2370108

Power and International Relations

David A. Baldwin • Princeton University Press eBooks (2016)

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concept of power has not always been central to international relations theory. During the 1920s and 1930s, power was often ignored or vilified by international relations scholars—especially in America. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400881000

W kierunku instytucjonalnej teorii kryzysu

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse • Sprawy Międzynarodowe (2019)

This paper aims to compare the approach of political science and that of the economy to the phenomenon of crisis. The author focuses on the analysis on the following issues: (1) the developmental challenge; (2) the structural challenge; (3)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.35757/SM.2019.72.2.02

Constructivism in International Relations

Maja Zehfuss • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2002)

Maja Zehfuss' book offers a fundamental critique of constructivism, focusing on the work of Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil. Using Germany's shift towards participation in international military operations as an illustration, she demonstrates wh...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511491795

Theories of International Relations

Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jack Donnelly et al. (2013)

The 5th edition of this best-selling textbook provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the main theoretical approaches in the study of international relations. While maintaining focus o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-31136-8

The Monroe Doctrine: Republicans’ Perspective in the Formation Years of the Versailles-Washington System

S. O. Buranok • Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика (2023)

The Monroe Doctrine occupies a unique place in the US history. It became one of the key foreign policy documents of its time and provided the basis for a wide variety of interpretations of the United States’ role and goals in the internatio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.48015/2076-7404-2023-15-3-56-86