Academic Articles & Research Papers

Gibraltar, the Brexit, the Symbolic Sovereignty, and the Dispute. A Principality in the Straits?

The outcome of the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum on leaving the European Union necessarily entails both a reconsideration of the status of Gibraltar and changes in Spain’s perspective on a solution to the dispute. Following Brexit, n...

Diasporas and International Relations Theory

In this article, we incorporate the study of diasporas into international relations (IR) theory by focusing on diasporas as independent actors who actively influence their homeland (kin-state) foreign policies. We argue that diasporic influ...

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...

Strategic Choice and International Relations

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. W...

Colombia y Venezuela: el fracaso de un modelo o la necesidad de revitalizarlo.

Mediation in International Relations

This collection of articles examines mediation in a range of situations including international relations, informal mediation by private individuals and by scholars and practitioners, as well as the s...

Explaining and Understanding International Relations

Are the workings of the international world to be explained scientifically, or are they to be understood through their inward meaning? In Explaining and Understanding International Relations philosopher Martin Hollis and international relat...

WTO ACCESSION OF BRICS COUNTRIES: THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE

The stages of reforms under the influence of requirements of the World Trade Organization are considered on the basis of an analysis of Chinese legislation. Four stages of preparation by the People’s Republic of China for accession to the W...

Poststructuralism and International Relations

Offering a sophisticated introduction to the major poststructuralist thinkers, this book shows how Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and i ek expose the depoliticization found in conventional international relations theory. Edkins argues that, con...

La cooperación desigual. Un enfoque normativo para evaluar las relaciones China-América Latina y el Caribe

Es necesario interrogarse normativamente si la cooperación China-ALC (CCH-ALC) contribuye a un mejor balance de sustentabilidad social de los cooperantes; dados contextos de desarrollo abierto y capitalismo global. La pregunta a responder a...

O Papel da ONU e do Banco Mundial na Consolidação do Campo Internacional de Desenvolvimento

ResumoO artigo tem por objetivo resgatar o processo histórico de construção do modus operandi das práticas de desenvolvimento, destacando o papel das organizações internacionais nesse processo e como elas mobilizavam seus recursos tangíveis...

International Law and International Relations

The disciplines of international law and international relations are inextricably linked. Both are concerned with the activities of states and with predicting how states behave and on what basis.For the international lawyer, however, the ke...

Feasibility and Usability of a Post-Hospital Behavioral Intervention to Improve Mobility in Veterans

The strongest risk factor for readmission to the hospital is impaired physical function. We sought to determine the usability and feasibility of a post-hospital behavioral intervention to improve mobility in older adults with significant mo...

Drivers of respiratory health care demand in Acre state, Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background The scarce knowledge about the drivers of demand for respiratory health care in the Brazilian Amazon, where the gap of human and physical health care resources is wide, is expanded with two surveys conducted in the west ...

Sovereign Debt Restructurings in Belize: Debt Sustainability and Financial Stability Aspects

This paper examines the causes, processes, and outcomes of the two Belize sovereign debt restructurings in 2006–07 and in 2012–13, which occurred outside an IMF-supported program. It finds that the motivation for the two debt restructurings...

LOCAL COMMUNITY’S ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE SELECTION OF SHADING TREESFOR TRADITIONAL AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM (NUTMEG “DUSUNG”) IN AMBON

Local ecological knowledge is closely linked to decision-making process for planting tree. The aims of this study are to describe and explain local community’s decision-making process in the selection of shading trees on their lands accordi...

THE LEADERS OF THE ECONOMIC POLITICS IN A STATE

Every economy is trying to be stabile and to be in progress. To try to reach this she needs to be based on Quantitative-qualitative coordinated process of reproduction. The economy is based on processes of production, trade, distribution an...

La ley de Okun en el Perú: 1970-2000

El objetivo de este artículo es explorar la relación entre el empleo, el desempleo y el producto,para lo cual estimamos el coeficiente de Okun. Un paso previo es el cálculo de la elasticidadempleo-producto. Ambos parámetros son importantes ...

Uncertainty and participation in global and regional value chains in Africa

This article focuses on the challenges that uncertainty poses to countries in global and regional value chains. In this perspective, it focuses specifically on African countries and enriches the results with a comparative approach. Indeed, ...

Globalization and International Development Finance: a Troubled Path?

Since the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutional framework in 1944, the World Bank played the lion’s share in development finance globally. Although World Bank initially operated in terms of inter-governmental cooperation in the f...