Academic Articles & Research Papers

International Relations Theory

Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this is the first textbook on international relations theory to take a specifically game-theoretic approach to the subject, and provide the material needed for students to understand...

Central Asia, Energy Security and Shanghai Cooperation Organization

[Sources of energy have assumed special strategic significance in recent times, particularly for fast growing and emerging economies. Central Asia sits atop the world's major energy resources, and recent years have 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...

The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations

In any area of scholarly inquiry, there are always several ways in which the phenomena under study may be sorted and arranged for purposes of systemic analysis. Whether in the physical or social sciences, the observer may choose to focus up...

MANAGEMENT OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT IN THE GLOBAL SPACE

The article analyzes the concepts to determine the essence of the investment project. The theoretical and methodical approach to the definition of an investment project, which will provide the possibility for a clear identification of the e...

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...

Features of the chinese network literature

The article discusses the history of the development of network literature in China, as well as its place in modern society. Modern literature has lost its homogeneous nature, divided into the one that exists in the traditional form of pape...

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...

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...

Progress in Postwar International Relations

Defining and conceptualizing progress in international relations, by Emanuel Adler, Beverly Crawford, and Jack DonnellyCognitive evolution: a dynamic approach for the study of international relations and their progress, by Emanuel AdlerChan...

Son of Struggling Africa: On the Centenary of Patrice Lumumba’s Birth (July 2, 1925 - January 17, 1961)

The article commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Patrice Emery Lumumba, a national hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the most prominent leaders of the African anti-colonial movement, and the first Prim...

In the Western Orbit: Turkish Approaches to the Study of International Relations

The article analyses the current state and development of International Relations research in Turkey, with an emphasis on the possible causes of its periphery status and the growth points for the formation of independent theoretical approac...

Non-state actors in international relations

Part I Three perspectives - political science, policy studies, and international law: private in form, public in purpose - NGOs in international relations theory, Bob Reinalda international policy arrangements of state and non-state actors,...

Influence of Sector, Budget Size and Financing on Time and Cost Management of Czech International Development Projects

Research background: This article focuses on the official Czech international development (ID) aid and the factors affecting the project success in terms of cost and time variance from the plan. As per research by Ahsan and Gunawan (2010), ...

The Environment and International Relations

The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate...

The Environment and international relations

The State and International Relations

Abstract The state is central to the study of international relations and will remain so into the foreseeable future. State policy is the most common object of analysis. States decide to go to war. They erect trade barriers. They choose whe...

The Power of Words in International Relations

The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analyzed through the lens of whaling politics. In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censu...

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...

Architectural diplomacy: a historical review of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology

By tracing the historical activities of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology (JCSABT, 1973–2003), which was established in Japan in 1973, this study firstly provides an overview of the friendly exchange groups vis...