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Brazil
With the aim of understanding the place and role of municipalities in the Brazilian federation, this chapter begins with an overview of the country’s...
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Putting the EU Global Security Strategy to test: ‘cooperative orders’ and othering in EU–Russia relations
This paper examines the notion of othering and its role in the development of cooperative regional orders, prioritised by the EU Global Security...
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Comparative Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism Systems
This chapter presents a comparative analysis of central elements of fiscal federalism systems in the eleven countries surveyed in previous chapters....
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Between Norms and Facts: Challenges to Security and Dilemmas of the International Order
This chapter analyzes how the American national security strategy was affected by the debates about the emergence of new conceptions of international...
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Sino-Russian Logrolling and the Future of Great Power Competition
How will American relative decline impact security cooperation between Russia and China? The conventional wisdom holds that the Sino-Russian...
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Governance and Violence in Crimilegal Orders
In crimilegal orders, the state does not command a monopoly over the use of violence and coercion. Instead, there are several violence oligopolists,...
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A Society of Peoples: The Nature and Limits of Rawls’s International Vision
In this chapter, I provide a synoptic reconstruction of John Rawls’s political philosophy with special focus on his contribution to normative...
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Threat Perception and Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election
Previous literature has shown that the perception of threat is an important determinant of individuals’ behaviors and attitudes. The more threatened...
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(Conclusion) ICT in East Africa: A Shimmering Oasis on the Savannah
Africa represents the technological frontier with regard to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). On the edge of technology, and at the...
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International Relations Theory and the Puzzle of China-Russia Alignment
It has been widely noted that China and Russia have grown progressively closer over the last two decades. Although the scholarly literature has...
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Adversarial strategic competition between China and the United States: understanding and mitigating its risks
China and the US are entering a period of adversarial strategic competition. That competition will have significant risks for both countries, ranging...
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The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment
More than a decade has passed since an intense research interest in Regional Powers arose in IR. However, this original impetus has of late...
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A decentralized cooperative solution to the iterated pacifist’s dilemma game: notes in the margin of Pinker’s theory of Leviathan
The current paper is heavily indebted to Steven Pinker’s theory of Leviathan. He made ingenious theoretical and historical use of the one-off...
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Modelling the Future
As a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic, conceptualisations of resilience, the principle of subsidiarity and localisation, echoing the results of the...
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Aid Effectiveness, International Policy Transfer and Development and Post-Development Theory
This chapter explores the major issues that have shaped the dominant ideas around aid and aid effectiveness over the years. Of particular interest to...
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Populist Foreign Policy in Asia
This chapter focuses on the impact of populism on foreign policy in two countries in Asia: India and the Philippines. Our analysis is based on an...
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Discretionality and Disarticulation in the Venezuelan Public Administration
This paper, which is the result of an investigation that began in 2003, focuses on public administration in Venezuela from a broader...
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Forced Migration, Resettlement and Responsibilization in the Functioning of Humanitarian Governance
This chapter discusses the United States’ system of refugee reception and placement programs in the context of humanitarian governance. Betts (Forced...
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Ukraine: Moving Borders Changing Orders?
The war in the Ukraine put the BRICS grou** in a delicate situation as one of its members is directly involved in armed conflict. While BRICS...
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Evaluating the Commitment of South Africa to the Principles of Separation of Powers
The notion of separation of power is a crucial prerequisite for both consolidated and emerging constitutional democracies. The functional and...