Academic Articles & Research Papers

Peace in International Relations

This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, a...

Sport and International Relations

Sport plays a highly significant role in the lives of millions the world over, and yet the impact of this global phenomenon on the subject of international relations hes been neglected. The contributors to this collection argue that sport r...

Critical Theorists and International Relations

A wide range of critical theorists is used in the study of international politics, and until now there has been no text that gives concise and accessible introductions to these figures. Critical Theorists and International Relations provide...

The International Relations of the Chinese Empire.

John Maynard Keynes and International Relations

Sixty years after his death, the life and thought of the economist, John Maynard Keynes, continues to be a subject of the greatest interest to scholars. Yet one of the most significant areas of Keynes's thinking has been strangely overlooke...

Interdisciplinarity and International Relations

The history of interdisciplinarity in international relations (IR) is not a simple narrative. Initially a transdisciplinary meeting place for scholars from many disciplines, IR developed after the 1940s into a closed sub-discipline of polit...

In the beginning: The International Relations enlightenment and the ends of International Relations theory

The question of endings is simultaneously a question of beginnings: wondering if International Relations is at an end inevitably raises the puzzle of when and how ‘it’ began. This article argues that International Relations’ origins bear st...

International Relations Then and Now

The new edition of this classic history of International Relations has been completely revised and updated throughout and remains a major guide to the intellectual lineage and development of the field. In International Relations Then and No...

Postcolonial Theory and International Relations

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of i...

The Study of Discourse in International Relations:

Militarism and International Relations

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies. Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparati...

The politics of secularism in international relations

Simulation of international relations

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

A. Whitney Griswold; The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. By Edward Hallett Carr, Professor of Internat...

Implementation in Russia and the European Union of International Safety Standards of Identity Documents with Biometric Data: Legal Regulation and Perspectives

RETRACTEDThe article contains the findings of a research into particular aspects of use of identity documents with personal biometric data. It considers the international safety standards of documents with biometric data worked out by the I...

Ethnic identity (geo)politics as a zero-sum game. Towards an assessment of the long-term effects of the Ohrid framework agreement

Since 2001 the inter-ethnic relations between the two largest ethno-national communities in the Republic of Macedonia have been regulated by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA). Describing it as an attempt at Complex Power Sharing, the ar...

Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe After Two Decades of EU Enlargement

This article examines foreign direct investment (FDI) as an indicator of economic integration, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the two decades they have been EU members. Although CEE countries have remained on the EU’s perip...

CAN EUROPE DEFEND ITSELF AND UKRAINE FROM RUSSIAN AGGRESSION WITHOUT US MILITARY SUPPORT? NEW REALITIES RELATED TO EU DEFENSE AND SECURITY POLICY

The study’s main objective is to analyze the EU’s defense and security policy, as well as its decision-making tools and processes in this area in light of newly elected US President Donald Trump’s position that the United States should prov...

Terrorism, Security and Democracy: 20 Years after 9/11

This article situates itself in the context of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which launched the ‘Global War on Terror’—coming shortly after the debacle of the Taliban’s triumphant return to power in Afghanistan. The article conte...

The Analysis of International Relations