Academic Articles & Research Papers

Secrecy and International Relations

Abstract This article analyzes the question of information control and how it influences the conduct and the study of international relations. Three theories are advanced as possible explanations for secrecy: The first, the External Threat ...

Contending Theories Of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey-

(Most chapters end with Conclusion and each chapter ends with Notes.) Preface. 1. Theoretical Approaches to International Relations. Introduction. Early Approaches to International-Relations Theory. Modern Approaches to International-Relati...

The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations

How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations , the author offers a new answer to this perennial question in international relations, arguing that power...

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...

Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

Journal Article Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations Get access Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations. By Raymond Aron. Trans. by Richard Howard and Annette Baker Fox. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson. 1967. 820 pp. ...

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...

Peace in international relations

No campo de estudos, as Relações Internacionais surgiram com o fim último de evitar tragédias como a Primeira Guerra Mundial.Seus estudiosos, não lograram desenvolver um entendimento preciso da paz: ao contrário, concentraram-...

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...

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...

Law and Peace in International Relations

Westphalian Eurocentrism in International Relations Theory

In the past 10–15 years, an increasing number of revisionist scholars have rejected the most significant elements of the argument about the centrality of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) to the evolution and structure of international society...

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...

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...

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 ...

The quest for sustainable peace building in Guji-Burji protracted inter-ethnic conflict

Perpetual peacebuilding needs inclusive, participatory, and transformative approaches. The practice of conflict approach determines the resolution and relapse of conflicts. This study focuses on the nature and experiences of conflict interv...

Peace in International Relations

This updated and revised second edition examines the conceptualisation and evolution of peace in International Relations (IR) theory. The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including real...

Peace in International Relations

This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, a...

Microfoundations in international relations

Many of our theories of international politics rely on microfoundations. In this short note, I suggest that although there has been increasing interest in microfoundations in international relations (IR) over the past 20 years, the frequenc...

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...

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...