Academic Articles & Research Papers

History and International Relations

Abstract This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913–1972), a historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, internation...

Order and Justice in International Relations

Abstract The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. This book sets current interest in that relationship within a broad historical and theoretical con...

International Relations in the Ancient Near East

The ancient civilizations of the Near East - Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, the Hittites and Canaanites - constituted the first formalized international relations system in world history. Holy wars, peace...

Technology and International Relations

John W. Oliver; Technology and International Relations. Edited by William Fielding Ogburn. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1949. Pp. vii, 202. $4.00.), T...

International relations, political theory and the problem of order: beyond international relations theory?

At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the cold war? Are we on...

Federalism and International Relations

Abstract Federalism and International Relations is the first comparative study of an increasingly important phenomenon: the international role and activities of component units of major liberal democratic federal States. The first part of t...

International Relations

The Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism: Structure, mission, and politics

This paper is a preliminary examination of the newly established Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT). IMAFT's membership includes Arab and Muslim states in the continents of Asia and Africa, and encompasses considerable mil...

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...

O PROBLEMATIZARE A BUNEI GUVERNĂRI DIGITALE

In political science today, the notions of “governance“ and “good governance“ compete as synonyms. The negative connotations of the first term (from the sphere of significance of the idea of leadership, or also care for one or more minors o...

Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems: a path to improved agro-economic performance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

Diversified sustainable agricultural systems, such as integrated crop-livestock-forest systems (ICLFs), offer substantial potential for enhancing food production to meet the increasing global demand for agricultural goods while, simultaneou...

Good Faith in the Judgments of the International Court of Justice

Good faith, as one of the fundamental principles of international law, indicates the need for fairness, honesty and reasonableness in international relations. And the International Court of Justice and other international judicial authoriti...

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...

Islam and International Relations

Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations. This collection of innovative essays written by Mustapha ...

A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations

In order to avoid both theoretically eclectic and redundant approaches to constructivism, this article proposes one possible and coherent reconstruction of constructivism understood as a reflexive meta-theory. This reconstruction starts by ...

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 ...

Theories of International Relations

Universities and professional associations usually are organized in ways that tend to separate scholars in adjoining disciplines and perhaps even to promote stereotypes of each other and their scholarly endeavors. The seemingly natural area...

Domestic Politics and International Relations

An American Social Science: International Relations

Political science has a much longer history than international relations. International relations did not, even though the kind of social action described by Thucydides never disappeared from a fragmented world, and flourished particularly ...