Academic Articles & Research Papers

Russia in contemporary Central Asia

The dissolution of the USSR and creation of the New Independent States (NIS) was accompanied by a rapid deterioration in relationships between the component republics. With the disputable exception of the Baltic States, the close dependence...

Te Tapatoru: a model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing

ABSTRACTWhanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisatio...

International Relations and Identity

International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alteri...

Bourdieu in International Relations

Series Editor's Introduction Iver B. Neumann, NUPI Preface Emanuel Adler, University of Toronto Introduction Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen 1. Bourdieu's concepts Vincent Pouliot, McGill University and Frederic Merand, Unive...

Assessing Corruption in Agricultural Cooperatives: Differences in the Perceived Level of Corruption Using Microdata

The agricultural branch of the Portuguese cooperative sector assumes an important role in rural development and in the inter-cooperation with local, regional, national, and international structures. Given the principles and values that guid...

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...

Human Rights in International Relations

This third edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and n...

Reformas y retos de la administración pública mexicana (1988-1994)

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...

International Relations: The Key Concepts

Featuring over twenty new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its second edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important t...

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...

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...

Work and Masculinity in Katanga’s Artisanal Mines

This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republ...

En torno a los nexos de la religión con la violencia. El “terrorismo sagrado”: ¿Un retorno al punto de partida?

En español El trabajo se inserta dentro de una línea de investigación dedicada a los estudios del terrorismo contemporáneo desde una perspectiva teórica e histórica. Se intenta discernir los mecanismos específicos del engranaje de la violen...

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 ...

Legal Discourse: Text Analysis and Translation Strategies

The article deals with basic requirements to the translation for specific purposes, namely legal translation. The problem posed here is defining object and theoretical basis of legal translation. The question of the necessity of information...

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...

International Relations Then and Now

The new edition of this classic history of International Relations has been completely revised and updated throughout and remains a major guide to the intellectual lineage and development of the field. In International Relations Then and No...

Race and Racism in International Relations

Alexander Anievas, Nivi Manchanda and Robbie Shilliam - Confronting the Global Colour Line: an Introduction, PART 1: CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF RACE AND RACISM, 2. Errol Henderson - Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism in Inter...