Academic Articles & Research Papers

Identity and Secession: The Case of the Secession of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia

The secessions of Slovenia and Croatia – two interrelated and interdependent processes – put an end to the existence of the socialist federal Yugoslavia. The article examines the mutual influence of the identity transformations of the Slove...

La política de México en torno a las armas de fuego: “¿candil de la calle, oscuridad de la casa?”

El artículo trata el tema de la (muy activa) política exterior de México en torno a la regulación de las armas de fuego y la falta de cumplimiento interno de varios de los tratados que la cancillería impulsa en foros multilaterales alrededo...

Contending Theories Of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey-

(Most chapters end with Conclusion and each chapter ends with Notes.) Preface. 1. Theoretical Approaches to International Relations. Introduction. Early Approaches to International-Relations Theory. Modern Approaches to International-Relati...

Bourdieu in International Relations

Series Editor's Introduction Iver B. Neumann, NUPI Preface Emanuel Adler, University of Toronto Introduction Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen 1. Bourdieu's concepts Vincent Pouliot, McGill University and Frederic Merand, Unive...

Israel, Iran, and Peace in the Middle East: An Analysis of Identity Formation, Enemy Construction, and the Logic of Expansionism

Introduction This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving antagonism between Israel and Iran, integrating political-sociological, historical, and geopolitical perspectives. While the immediate catalyst for this inquiry is Is...

Potências emergentes na ordem de redes: o caso do Brasil

Na última década, mudanças e inovações foram introduzidas nas redes intergovernamentais de política externa. Novas potências como Brasil adquiriram um peso relativo devido ao seu novo status atuando como defini...

Global Communication and International Relations

Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations

Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? Richard Wri...

Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations

The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalising and...

DECODING BOTS OF TERRORISM IN BALOCHISTAN

Since the withdrawal of the US / North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, Balochistan has experienced a renewed wave of terrorism with improved organisational/operational capabilities and better-equi...

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...

Russia–China Economic Relations in the 21st Century: Unrealized Potential or Predetermined Outcome?

In the first decade of the 21st century, Moscow and Beijing made two strategic decisions to expand and deepen bilateral economic relations. The first one was to endorse diversified energy partnership. The second was centered on cross-border...

Cyberspace and International Relations

The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations

This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years’ War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Tesch...

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...

Ethical Textile Consumption: Only a Question of Selflessness?

When it comes to purchase decisions for fair-trade clothing, there seems to be a gap between actions and words. Only few people buy fair trade despite stating moral concerns. Based on a survey of German consumers and the results of a behavi...

La ley de Okun en el Perú: 1970-2000

El objetivo de este artículo es explorar la relación entre el empleo, el desempleo y el producto,para lo cual estimamos el coeficiente de Okun. Un paso previo es el cálculo de la elasticidadempleo-producto. Ambos parámetros son importantes ...

Entrepreneurial development initiatives on business sustainability in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South West Nigeria

The study addresses the ongoing sustainability issues faced by agricultural SMEs in Southwest Nigeria, despite many entrepreneurial development initiatives focused on innovation, technology adoption, and governmental assistance. This study ...

Semantic Business Intelligence - a New Generation of Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Solutions represents applications used by companies to manage process and analyze data to provide substantiated decision. In the context of Semantic Web develop-ment trend is to integrate semantic unstructured data, ma...

Los moluscos terrestres (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de Costa Rica: clasificación, distribución y conservación

Los moluscos terrestres son un grupo muy poco estudiado a nivel mundial. Hay 183 especies reportadas para Costa Rica, 30% son endémicas y 7% posiblemente están extintas. Se espera que en el país haya alrededor de 400 especies, de más del 95...