In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...

Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

background this article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system.   methods in multiple standard ordinary least squares (ols) regression models, we tested the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on the following indicators of sustainable develop...

We obtain several combinatorial results about chains, cycles and orbits of the elements of the symmetric inverse semigroup ISn and the set Tn of nilpotent elements in ISn. We also get some estimates for the growth of |ISn| and |Tn|, and study random products of elements from ISn.

discussions of islamic international law, especially privateinternational law, i.e., nationality, domicile, legal situationof foreigners, and contradiction of laws are not presentedin islamic jurisprudence under the same titles, and thismay lead to the supposition that islamic jurisprudence hasremain silent concerning such problems.the present essay intends to prove incorrectness of thatsupposi...

Global Governance has become a buzzword in the social sciences in general and in International Relations (IR) in particular. Many different phenomena, from the influence of civil society on international decision-making processes to the role of intergovernmental organisations and transnational corporations in world politics, are invoked as examples of global governance. However, upon closer ins...

the international relations course was basically under the dominion of positivistic realistic (and in its newest form, the neorealistic) tendencies, and accordingly provided some concepts as a basis for analyzing the international relation and global policies. but since 1980s and under the influence of the changes caused by the emerge of post structuralist and post modernist approaches in the a...