Academic Articles & Research Papers

Psychology and International Relations Theory

Organized around several major theoretical traditions in international relations, this essay suggests which literature in psychology should be of greatest interest to different kinds of international relations scholars. New work in cognitiv...

“Dreams on Europe” by Walter Schwimmer (1942–2025)

The article is dedicated to reflections on the activities of the prominent Austrian politician, diplomat, and public figure Walter Schwimmer (1942–2025). The author examines in detail his contributions to the development of European integra...

Comparing Alignment and Multiple Group CFA for Analysing Political Trust in Europe During the Crisis

Institutional trust is in decline in many western democracies. Since the 2008 global economic and financial crisis, this increasing distrust has been closely related to trust in political institutions. Trust in institutions is one of the pi...

Los Países Industrializados tienen una Deuda Ecológica con la Humanidad.

National Human Rights Institutions and ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR): Are They Complementary?

The adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter in 2008 and the establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (AICHR) in 2010 have pushed ASEAN to be more responsive to human rights commitme...

Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations

Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY - The Case for International Political Theory - Men and Citizens in International Relations - Internal and External Concepts of Obligation in the Theory of I...

Non-violent Civil Resistance and Human (Im)mobility: the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) in Defence of Ancestral Territory amid the Colombian Armed Conflict

Abstract This article aims to analyse the strategic actions of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) in defence of ancestral territory in Colombia’s Pacific region, which has experienced an intensification of the armed conflict fo...

Agents, Structures and International Relations

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...

The Restructuring of International Relations Theory

In this book Mark Neufeld argues that the predominance of the positivist approach to the study of international politics has meant that theory committed to human emancipation remains poorly developed. He suggests that International Relation...

Diplomatic Theory of International Relations

Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventio...

The first post-cold war 'humanitarian intervention': Vukovar 1991

This paper presents a critical scientific view of some issues of the scientific publication of our colleagues from Croatia: D. Živić, S. Špoljar Vržina, S. Cvikić, I. Žebec Šilj (editors), Vukovar 91 - Genocide and Memoricide Heritage of th...

Recognition in International Relations

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills. This volume assembles contributions from International Relations, Political Theory and International Law in order to sh...

International Relations: The Basics

International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to the major issues and areas of debate and: explains key issues in...

Human Rights in International Relations

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...

Ukraine – environmental aspects of humanitarian demining

In 2021, Ukraine produced such an amount of food that it would have been possible to feed about 400 million people, not counting the population of Ukraine. The strategy for the development of the agricultural sector of Ukraine envisages pro...

International Law and International Relations

Events such as the legal arguments surrounding the 2003 Iraq War and the creation of the International Criminal Court highlight the significance of international law in the contemporary world. This new textbook provides an introduction to t...

A Cultural Theory of International Relations

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need ...

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...

Realism and international relations

Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, the Prisoners' Dilemma, Thucydides,...

Ontological Security in International Relations

The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as ‘motives’ of state beh...