Academic Articles & Research Papers

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 ...

The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations

Abstract This article investigates the extent to which citation and publication patterns differ between men and women in the international relations (IR) literature. Using data from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy project o...

International Relations in the Cyber Age

A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, firms, and states. In our increasingly digital world, data flows define the internationa...

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...

Cyberpolitics in international relations

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...

Memory and Trauma in International Relations

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

A Conceptualization of Trust in International Relations

This article provides a conceptualization of trust in interstate relations in terms amenable to research. In the field of International Relations trust is often equated with the willingness to take risks on the behavior of others. However, ...

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...

Institutional Determinants of International Production in Russia

The article analyses institutional determinants of foreign direct investment that substantially influences international production in Russia. Author pays special attention on the following determinants as legal infrastructure, protection p...

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...