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By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World War, it took accelerated globalization processes in the "material sense" to make the "de-globalization processes" visible that shaped the 1920s and 1930s for people of that time and later observers.

Introduction -- Legal competence to establish MPAS within national jurisdiction and on the high seas -- From a functional to a holistic approach -- Pre-LOS Convention : principles in customary law -- The traditional approach of the LOS Convention to protect and preserve the marine environment and to conserve living resources -- Developments since 1982 : the obligations to protect and conserve marine biodiversity -- Global obligations on conservation of marine biological diversity -- Regional obligations and implementation of obligations on conservation of marine biodiversity -- Conclusions -- Legal obligations to establish MPAS - introductory remarks -- The LOS Convention and establishment and management of MPAS -- Is there a legal duty to establish MPAS under the CBD? -- When is there a legal obligation under the CBD to establish MPAS? -- The management of MPAS under the CBD convention -- The OSPAR Convention and MPAs -- MPAs under the Arctic Council -- The relationship between the CBD and the LOS Convention : conflicting norms and mechanisms for solving them -- Regulation of navigation in MPAS -- Specially designated areas to protect the marine environment against impact of international shipping activities -- Final remarks

The thesis aims to underline the Eurocentrism of the field of international relations and the way in which the conceptualizations and writings of history contribute to the reproduction of specific narratives of international relations. The thesis argues that the 'decentering' of the field should not only focus on questioning the narratives produced in the center but also focus on the reproduction of Eurocentrism in the 'periphery'. The thesis through the example of the 'Cold War' discusses the way in which the 'Cold War' has been written and the presuppositions about international relations that has been produced and reproduced in the center and in the periphery.

THIS PAPER CRITICALLY ASSESSES THE WORK OF J.A. HOBSON AND ITS RELATION TO IDEALISM AS A CATEGORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THOUGHT. AN EXAMINATION OF HOBSON'S WRITINGS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SHOW THAT THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT STANDS OF THOUGHT, THREE MODES OF IDEALISM. THESE MODES OF IDEALIST THOUGHT DIFFER ON FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AS WELL AS IN THEIR PRESCRIPTIONS FOR A REFORMED WORLD ORDER. IN SHORT, CONSIDERATION OF HOBSON'S WORK DESTABILIZES THE MONOLITHIC CATEGORY OF IDEALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

In this essay, I propose that a focus on research validity can improve communications among scholars of international studies who use a variety of methodological approaches because validity as a unifying standard allows for greater flexibility of methodological and empirical approaches to theoretical concepts. Social science disciplines have recently been more concerned with replication and transparency as the standards by which social science research is measured and valued. I apply transparency, replication, and validity to five identified inefficiencies in international studies communication and an examination of judicial independence/international studies research. This application indicates that validity is the more useful standard in that it addresses four of the five communication inefficiencies. Linking validity to advancing causal inference research, creating incentives for multimethod research teams, and improving social science communication to the lay public can also facilitate communication among international studies scholars.

Practice turn marks an important advancement in International Relations theorizing. In challenging abstract meta-theoretical debates, practice theorizing in International Relations aims to get close to the lifeworld(s) of the actual practitioners of politics. Scholars from different positions such as constructivism, critical theory, and post-structuralism have critically interrogated the analytical framework of practices in international politics. Building upon these works, we are concerned with a question of how to examine the context of international practices that unfolds in multiple ways in practitioners' performances. Our central thesis is that a distinct pragmatic methodology offers an opportunity to keep with the practice turn and avoid the problematic foundational moves of mainstream practice theorizing. This involves foregrounding three interrelated processes in examining practices: the role of exceptions in the normal stream of performances, normative uptake of the analysts, and the semantic field that actors navigate in political performances. We argue that this methodology is predicated on its usefulness to interpret practices through reflective social-science inquiry.

In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this project from Robert Jackson seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the changes. The author demonstrates how the world is neither one of anarchy, as put forward by realists, nor is it a fully cosmopolitan order, as argued by those on the other side of the theoretical spectrum. Instead, it is a world of states who acknowledge a set of moral constraints that exists between them