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The current burst of work on regimes or, more broadly, on international institutions, reflects an emerging sense—especially among Americans—that the international order engineered by the United States and its allies in the aftermath of World War II is eroding rapidly and may even be on the verge of collapse. But is the resultant surge of scholarly work on international regimes any more likely to yield lasting contributions to knowledge than have other recent fashions in the field of international relations? The jury will remain out until a sustained effort is made to evaluate the significance of regimes or institutions more broadly, as determinants of collective behavior at the international level.

"The English School: History and Primary Institutions as Empirical IR Theory?" published on by Oxford University Press.

Based on conference paper. Partial contents: Global reformism as a tradition; Peace research as a science; Developments in the theory of international relations.

There can be no enterprise more important to the student of International Relations than to understand the bearing on his subject of the tradition that asserts the existence of natural law. Natural law played a vital historical role in the emergence of the European states-system: in the period during which the positive law of Christendom was ceasing to command attention, but that of modern international society had not yet taken shape, the idea that princes and peoples were bound by rules in their relations with one another rested substantially, even if by no means exclusively, upon natural law doctrine. The natural law tradition is also central to the critical investigation of normative issues in world politics: for any inquiry into e.g. the justification of force, the obligation of treaties, the rights of sovereignty or the legitimacy of intervention, it provides a rich source of argument.

The article examines the problem of complexity within the framework of migration theory and consequences of interdisciplinary interaction between different humanities from a conceptual level. The relevance of the issue lies in the fact that the very concept of "general theory of migration" is a connotative matrix that combines and structures additional semantic loads in the process of collision of different areas of research, and, consequently, problematizes the dimension of analysis, taking into account certain variations that a scholar chooses as the focus of his attention. During the search for such "points of contact", it was possible to identify convergent "bridges" of relevant interaction to define a coherent theoretical framework for the study of the phenomenon. As a result, the purpose of the article is to demonstrate how the views of researchers from eight areas of analysis of the migration topic have evolved on the way to the current established approach – interdisciplinary, which has become the basis for the identification of a "general theory" in scientific discourse. Particular attention is paid to the aspect of differences in the objects of study over the last decades, which contributed to the construction of a relatively unified scheme based on four criteria of analysis, in particular "research question", "level of analysis", "dominant theory" and "hypothesis model". The article examines the essence of the conceptual difference in the definition of "migration" among scientists of various fields of knowledge, which, according to the author, has become a factor of interdisciplinary rapprochement and interaction. In order to achieve the goal of the research, tools such as historiographical (literature review method) and eclectic, that accumulated positivist and interpretive approaches, were used by the author. The key conclusion was the case of the current state of interdisciplinary cooperation between scientists regarding migration as a topic from eight humanitarian fields of knowledge. It is argued that the formation and conventional acceptance of the "general theory of migration" has already taken place among scholars, but at the same time has opened up new perspectives for migration studies that have been less popular or not studied at all. The actual directions of interdisciplinary research, in the opinion of the author, are determined. It is emphasized that the optimal form of implementation of the latter is international comparative projects. Attention is paid to ways of solving practical migration problems. It is indicated that politicians also implement this matrix in order to understand various problems better and in more detail, which is especially necessary and important from a practical point of view against the background of the escalation of events in 2022, when a large-scale Russian-Ukrainian war began.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.