How individuals shape informal institutions: Analyzing contending norm promotion in the Global SouthJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 26 - Trang 557-578 - 2023
Michal Kolmaš, Šárka Kolmašová
Why do some actors possess more leverage to diffuse norms than others? Although it is often assumed that norm diffusion simply ‘happens’ through the interaction of political and cultural systems, we argue that individuals and institutional flexibility play a crucial role in the success and failure of norm diffusion. Analyzing the contending interpretation and diffusion of the Common but Differenti...... hiện toàn bộ
(All JIRD) Editors' noteJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 11 - Trang 215-221 - 2008
Stefano Guzzini, Zlatko Šabič, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Explaining why state X made a certain move last Tuesday: the promise and limitations of realist foreign policy analysisJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 8 - Trang 355-380 - 2005
Anders Wivel
What are the main challenges facing realist foreign policy analysis today? Which strategies might realists follow in order to answer these challenges? This article argues that contemporary realism faces two fundamental challenges when attempting to explain foreign policy. The first challenge is to combine structural factors with other variables without ending up with a collection of ad hoc argumen...... hiện toàn bộ
Editorial NoteJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 7 - Trang 109-109 - 2004
IR scholarship in Poland: the state of the discipline 25 years after the transition to democracyJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 19 - Trang 448-474 - 2014
Jacek Czaputowicz, Anna Wojciuk
The paper discusses the state of International Relations (IR) in Poland. In the first part, it shows IR’s history, institutional conditions, and its level of internationalisation, particularly the influence of Polish scholars working in the West on the development of the discipline. In the second part, it offers a systematic empirical analysis of IR articles published from 2007 to 2012 in Poland’s...... hiện toàn bộ
Narrative time and International RelationsJournal of International Relations and Development - Tập 25 - Trang 761-783 - 2022
Benedikt Franz
Telling a story can explain how an event came about. It can thereby also change how we grasp temporality. In this article, I will discuss Paul Ricœur’s notion of ‘narrative time’ in the context of International Relations. Viewed from this perspective, narratives not only explain, but also mediate two ways of understanding time, phenomenological and cosmological, by weaving experienced time and nat...... hiện toàn bộ