Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

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...

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 ...

Special Administrative Region of China Aomen (Macao): Features of Relations with European Regions

This study examines the development of transregional relationships between the Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Macao, and various countries and regions in Europe. It argues that Macao possesses unique rights...

Motivations, Preferences, and Barriers to Going Abroad: Russian High-tech Start-ups and Small Innovative Enterprises

This article is devoted to studying the motives, preferences, and market entry barriers for Russian high-tech start-ups and small innovative enterprises (SIE) that took part in the “Startup Village” event held at Skolkovo Innovation Centre ...

In the beginning: The International Relations enlightenment and the ends of International Relations theory

The question of endings is simultaneously a question of beginnings: wondering if International Relations is at an end inevitably raises the puzzle of when and how ‘it’ began. This article argues that International Relations’ origins bear st...

Digital Connectivity project for Central Asia as a mechanism of confrontation between the EU and China

The article focuses on analyzing the European Union’s (EU) Digital Connectivity project for Central Asia as a mechanism of the “Global Gateway” initiative to counterbalance the influence of China and other geopolitical actors in the region....

CAN EUROPE DEFEND ITSELF AND UKRAINE FROM RUSSIAN AGGRESSION WITHOUT US MILITARY SUPPORT? NEW REALITIES RELATED TO EU DEFENSE AND SECURITY POLICY

The study’s main objective is to analyze the EU’s defense and security policy, as well as its decision-making tools and processes in this area in light of newly elected US President Donald Trump’s position that the United States should prov...

Elections to the European Parliament as a form of civic expression

The article examines the positions of non-governmental organizations before the 2024 parliamentary elections in the European Union. The author shows that the European Union has created quite effective mechanisms that encourage the transform...

Queer International Relations

Queer International Relations (IR) is not a new field.For more than 20 years, Queer IR scholarship has focused on how normativities and/or non-normativities associated with categories of sex, gender, and sexuality sustain and contest intern...

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...

Strategic Choice and International Relations

Acknowledgments vii Chapter One International Relations: A Strategic-Choice Approach David A. Lake and Robert Powell 3 Chapter Two Actors and Preferences in International Relations Jeffry A. Frieden 39 Chapter Three The Strategic Setting of...

Theories of International Relations

This collection of essays demonstrates the continuing importance of the work of Michael Polanyi for the understanding, not only of the great events of the 20th century, but also of the problems that face us in the 21st century. Polanyi move...

“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...

International Discussions on Religious Factor in Global Bioethics

The article analyzes the cooperation of UN structures with religious non-governmental organizations, as well as with faith-based communities. The authors consider diff erent levels of the infl uence of the religious factor on the UN activit...

Refugees in International Relations

This volume, as they explain, emerged from the editors’ frustration with the relative marginalisation of the issue of refugees from the dominant scholarship within the discipline of International Relations (IR) (p 4). It is an outcome of a ...

Achieving Consensus in the South China Sea: Explaining Bilateralism's Bane and Multilateralism's Boon

A prolonged debate arises whether bilateralism or multilateralism is the most effective path to achieve mutual consensus among parties in the South China Sea dispute. This study identifies bilateral approach negativity to settle such a comp...

International Cooperation and Indonesia’s Geopolitical Perspective in Indo-Pacific

This paper emphasizes the analysis of Indonesia's geopolitical perspective through international cooperation that is part of Indonesia's geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. The results of this paper explain that Indonesia's geopolitical...

1919–1920 metų Lietuvos nepriklausomybės karo nominacijos ir pripažinimai | Names and Recognition of the Lithuanian War of Independence, 1919–1920

Correlates of War (COW), an ongoing project initiated in the United States to monitor all the wars around the globe, covers the Estonian and Latvian wars of independence, and the war between Poland and Russia, but does not represent the Lit...