Michael Huemer argues that cross-cultural convergence toward liberal moral values is evidence of objective progress, and by extension, for realism. Nathan Cofnas claims to debunk Huemer’s argument contending can be better explained ‘two related non-truth-tracking processes’: self-interest its long-term tendency result in social conditions conducive greater empathy. This article although success...

This article attempts to examine and critique the theoretical debates on the rise of China and its regional strategy in East Asia. Three major paradigms in international relations theories – realism, liberalism and constructivism – are focused on. This article argues that each theoretical theory alone is inadequate for a comprehensive understanding of China’s regional strategy in East Asia sinc...

Croatia’s economy has been highly promoted since the country declared independence in 1991. This paper discusses some specific trade disputes that produce crucial effect on country’s economy, speculates needs and expectations for joining World Trade Organization, combines basic international relations’theories with WTO Cardinal Principles, makes an attempt interpreting case studies, which Croat...

Criticisms of realism and liberalism, traditionally the two dominant fields within international relations (IR) and international political economy (IPE) theory, have been widespread for the past two decades. What unites these critical theorists is their claim that IR/IPE theory is both ahistorical and decontextualised. What is missing from this critical account is a sustained historical examin...

The Republic of Turkey continues to grapple with a foundational tension between isolationist impulses steeped in nationalist, sovereigntist, i.e., realist outlook on the world, and what I call “embedded liberalism” republican project. Yet, neither realism nor liberalism are sufficient, show, explain Turkey’s trajectory. Invoking three visions international system as envisaged (billiard balls), ...

Ecological communities around the world are under threat while a consensus theory of community structure remains elusive. In the last decade ecologists have struggled with two seemingly opposing theories: niche-based theory that explains diversity with species’ differences and the neutral theory of biodiversity that claims that much of the diversity we observe can be explained without explicitl...

This study dwells on the quest for a critical security perspective international migration. Therefore, how migration could be perceived through studies is main research question of this study. Critical Security Studies (CSS) or Welsh School emerged after Robert Cox’s debate between problem-solving and theories, especially 1990s. In respect, CSS focus questioning mainstream theories their interp...

Sen’s classic social choice result supposedly demonstrates a conflict between Pareto and even minimal forms of liberalism. By providing the first direct mathematical proof of this seminal result, we underscore a significantly different interpretation: rather than conflicts among rights, Sen’s result occurs because the liberalism assumption negates the assumption that voters have transitive pref...