Academic Articles & Research Papers

Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth

The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was largely ignored by the discipline of international relations (IR), despite the fact that it regards that event as the beginning of the international system with which it has tradi...

African Muslim Leaders and Turkey’s Diyanat

Turkish-African relations began with the formation of the Ottoman Empire. Early relations were confined to parts of modern-day Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, which the empire ruled for centuries. Later on, the empire spread to other parts of Afr...

The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory

A challenger to the continuing dominance of neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism in the study of international relations in the United States, constructivism is regarded with a great deal of skepticism by mainstream scholars.1 While t...

An Organizational and Governance Model to Support Mass Collaborative Learning Initiatives

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...

Integritas Penyelenggara Pemilu Ad-Hoc: Malpraktik Distribusi Formulir C-6 di Pilkada Tangerang Selatan Tahun 2020

Penelitian ini menguraikan tentang pelanggaran netralitas yang dilakukan oleh Kelompok Penyelenggara Pemungutan Suara (KPPS) pada Pemilihan Kepala Daerah (Pilkada) di Kota Tangerang Selatan (Tangsel) tahun 2020. Dalam menganalisis fenomena ...

La economía política del comercio justo y la teoría del desarrollo: implicaciones en el mercado del café costarricense (1990-2017)

Con respecto de sus fundamentos, las iniciativas del comercio justo experimentaron una metamorfosis entre la década de 1940 y finales de la década de 1980.  A través de las escuelas de pensamiento icónicas de la dependencia y del "desarroll...

Thinking International Relations Differently

A host of voices has risen to challenge Western core dominance of the field of International Relations (IR), and yet, intellectual production about world politics continues to be highly skewed. This book is the second volume in a trilogy of...

Gibraltar, the Brexit, the Symbolic Sovereignty, and the Dispute. A Principality in the Straits?

The outcome of the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum on leaving the European Union necessarily entails both a reconsideration of the status of Gibraltar and changes in Spain’s perspective on a solution to the dispute. Following Brexit, n...

Políticas de segurança do Departamento de Estado para a América Latina (2001-2009) no contexto da macrossecuritização

Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar e analisar políticas de segurança internacional do Departamento de Estado norte-americano direcionadas para os países da América Latina, durante o período de governo de George W. Bush (2001-2009), ...

O eixo Venezuela-Brasil

O presente artigo busca analisar as relações entre Brasil e Venezuela e suas recentes moficações, de modo a intencificá-las e torná-las mais eficientes....

Anglo-Italian interdisciplinary networks 1765-1767. Frisi, Beccaria, the Verris and the Fellows of the Royal Society

The aim of this paper is to shed light on an under-researched area of study: that of the relations that the leading members of the «Caffé» – Paolo Frisi, Cesare Beccaria and the Verri – established with the Royal Society’s Anglo-Italian cir...

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

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...

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...

A ATUAÇÃO DO CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO DE DEFESA ECONÔMICA (CADE) NO PROCESSO DE INCORPORAÇÃO DA EMPRESA RECUPERANDA E A TEORIA FAILING COMPANY DEFENSE.

As dificuldades econômicas e financeiras pelas quais passam as mais diversas empresas, em especial em tempos de crise, podem levá-las ao processo de Recuperação Judicial ou até mesmo o seu fim, por meio do processo falimentar. Ocorre que, j...

Entre a proteção e o simulacro: Como empresas transnacionais desafiam os limites do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos

Este texto analisa os limites do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos diante de violações socioambientais associadas à atuação de empresas transnacionais no contexto da América Latina. O objetivo central é propor a categoria da corres...

Hermilo López Bassols. Los nuevos desarrollos del derecho internacional público y casos prácticos de derecho internacional. 3a ed. revisada y aumentada. México : Porrúa, 2008. 908 p.

La cooperación desigual. Un enfoque normativo para evaluar las relaciones China-América Latina y el Caribe

Es necesario interrogarse normativamente si la cooperación China-ALC (CCH-ALC) contribuye a un mejor balance de sustentabilidad social de los cooperantes; dados contextos de desarrollo abierto y capitalismo global. La pregunta a responder a...

O Papel da ONU e do Banco Mundial na Consolidação do Campo Internacional de Desenvolvimento

ResumoO artigo tem por objetivo resgatar o processo histórico de construção do modus operandi das práticas de desenvolvimento, destacando o papel das organizações internacionais nesse processo e como elas mobilizavam seus recursos tangíveis...

AIDS e pauperização: principais conceitos e evidências empíricas AIDS and pauperization: principal concepts and empirical evidence

O artigo discute as estratégias metodológicas que vêm sendo usadas na análise das inter-relações entre a vulnerabilidade ao HIV/AIDS e as desigualdades sociais, o preconceito e a marginalização, ressaltando-se as dificuldades metodológicas ...

Kebijakan Kriminalisasi LGBT Malawi Di Tengah Pengaruh Kelompok Kepentingan dan Politik Bantuan Luar Negeri

Issues of LGBT boomed in Malawi in 2009 after an arrest of homosexual couple who held a wedding party. The criminalization was based on the Malawi’s Penal Code. In 2010, Malawian government also added an article on the Penal Code to crimina...