Academic Articles & Research Papers

DATA & INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY: THE RISK OF AI ENABLED CYBER ATTACKS AND QUANTUM HACKING

On November 21, 2022, Dr. Ryan Prox, Adjunct Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, presented Data & Infrastructure Security: The Risk of AI Enabled Cyber Attacks and Quantum Hacking.  A question-and-answer perio...

Nonproportional Hazards and Event History Analysis in International Relations

Event history models have become a dominant method of analysis in the study of international relations. Conventional event history models, however, retain the assumption that the effects of the covariates remain proportional to each other t...

Lessons from the Chemical Weapons Convention Negotiations and Implementation for the Diplomatic Challenges of Negotiating ‘Irreversibility’

Negotiating an international disarmament treaty that has as one of its core requirements the concept of “irreversibility” will be a major task, especially so if the aim is to ensure that nuclear weapons and the means of their production and...

Russia in contemporary Central Asia

The dissolution of the USSR and creation of the New Independent States (NIS) was accompanied by a rapid deterioration in relationships between the component republics. With the disputable exception of the Baltic States, the close dependence...

Dictionary of International Relations

Assessing Corruption in Agricultural Cooperatives: Differences in the Perceived Level of Corruption Using Microdata

The agricultural branch of the Portuguese cooperative sector assumes an important role in rural development and in the inter-cooperation with local, regional, national, and international structures. Given the principles and values that guid...

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...

Russia’s Arctic Policy Shift: Asia’s Growing Engagement, Opportunities for Mongolia

This paper examines Russia’s evolving Arctic policy amid shifting global dynamics, emphasizing its strategic pivot toward Asia’s growing influence and the resulting regional transformations. As Western sanctions and NATO tensions isolate Mo...

Madness in International Relations

Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with...

The Structure and Diversity of Mediation in International Relations

In his keynote address to the Annual Conference of the International Association of Conflict Management in 1990, Morton Deutsch, truly one of the founding fathers of conflict studies, highlighted five major themes which have dominated the d...

Challenges of the Republic of serbia's military neutrality in a changed security environment

The deepening geopolitical conflict between the West and the Russian Federation, intensified by the war in Ukraine, has caused significant changes in the security environment of the Republic of Serbia and has largely complicated the realiza...

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...

2023 WEST COAST SECURITY CONFERENCE WELCOMING REMARKS DAY 3

On November 15, 2023, Mr. John Pyrik presented the opening address for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The key points discussed were the introduction of speakers for the international perspectives panel of the CASIS conference a...

The role of international institutions in promoting democracy: a brief literature review of recent studies (2010-2019) | O papel das instituições internacionais na promoção da democracia: uma breve revisão da literatura de trabalhos recentes (2010-2019)

This article aims to present a complex literature review of recent studies on the role of international institutions in democracy promotion. The articles analyzed were selected through a previous bibliometric study conducted on the Web of S...

Unbacked Cryptomoney, Fiscal Evasion and Environment Tax: Some Policy Recommendations in Europe

In a 2019 New York Times article, Paul Krugman declared himself a “crypto skeptic” and shared his pessimistic predictions for cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, unbacked cryptomoney is now very important in our societies and has revolutionized...

Cultural Heritage-based Museum Development Strategy in Siak Sri Indrapura Regency

The Siak District Government has long tried to advance the tourism sector by utilizing the rich heritage of the Malay cultural history of the Kingdom of Siak Sri Indrapura. These efforts have strengthened since the establishment of the visi...

China’s Road-map for Regional Cooperation: Building a Community of Shared Future in the South China Sea

The South China Sea (SCS) has long been mired in historical disputes and rising geopolitical tensions, making innovative frameworks necessary to foster regional stability. This article introduces the Community of Shared Future (CSF), China’...

Islamist Terrorist Activity in 2000-2020: A Scoring Methodology

The relevance of the study of Islamist terrorism is due to its destructive impact on national and global security, as well as on the dialogue between Western and Eastern, particularly Muslim, nations since the early 2000s. Islamist terroris...

Feminist international relations: an unfinished journey

Part I. Introductions: Part II. Sightings: 1. Handmaids' tales of Washington power: the abject and the real Kennedy White House 2. Reginas in international relations: occlusions, cooperations, and Zimbabwean cooperatives 3. The white paper ...

International Relations of the Middle East

International Relations of the Middle East provides a balanced overview of international relations in the Middle East. Chapters combine a history of the region with analysis of key themes, actors, and conflicts, using a range of learning fe...