I fjor haust slapp Oxford University Press ut ei ny innføringsbok som tek for seg korleis verda
er organisert politisk i dag. Ei nett, lita bok på 354 sider (inkludert indeks og referansar), utan …

Scholarly assessments of transnational actors are largely optimistic, suggesting they herald
an emerging global civil society comprising local civic groups, international organiza-tions …

Long a focal point in the study of Geography, regions have become a major concern of
International Relations, and for some even its essence. Principle definitions and …

Abstract The United States has maintained international hierarchies over the Western
Hemisphere for more than a century and over Western Europe for nearly seven decades …

The 'Thucydides trap'exaggerates the risk of war breaking out between the rising power and
the ruling power in the contemporary age. The greater challenge facing China and the …

The Sino-American conflict syndrome contains several elements. It is based on a regional
status competition, which is increasingly becoming global. This competition for influence has …

Traditionally, the central problematic of the Westphalian states system has been how to
counteract the so-called 'security dilemma', the tendency for states in a context of uncertainty …

This introductory discussion establishes the notion of intervention as a 'social practice'and
carves out the contextual and conceptual space for the Special Issue as a whole. The first …

Many states partially relinquish sovereignty in return for physical protection from a more
powerful state. Mainstream theory on international hierarchies holds that such decisions are …

What has been traditionally conceptualised as 'the international'has been undergoing a
fundamental transformation in recent decades, usually called 'globalisation'. Globalisation is …