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Introduction: science, technology, and international affairs, new perspectives /John Krige, Kai-Henrik Barth --Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the Making of the IAEA /Gabrielle Hecht --Ambivalence of nuclear histories /Itty Abraham --Prometheus unleashed : science as a diplomatic weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration /Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper --Politics of noncooperation: the boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics /Alexis De Greiff --Exporting MIT: science, technology, and nation-building in India and Iran /Stuart W. Leslie, Robert Kargon --"An effective instrument of peace": scientific cooperation as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, 1938-1950 /Clark A. Miller --Atoms for peace, scientific internationalism, and scientific intelligence /John Krige --Catalysts of change: scientists as transnational arms control advocates in the 1980s /Kai-Henrik Barth --Hallowed lords of the sea: scientific authority and radioactive waste in the United States, Britain, and France /Jacob Darwin Hamblin --Meteorology as infrastructural globalism /Paul N. Edwards --Globalization and regulation in the biotech world: the transatlantic debates over cancer genes and genetically modified crops /Jean-Paul Gaudillère --Biotechnology and empire: the global power of seeds and science /Sheila Jasanoff.

Enhancing national defense by recognizing the link between security and the environment, and redefining the intelligence mission in terms of environmental threats. Environment as a cause of conflict, intelligence requirements and capabilities, cooperation and information sharing, and intelligence community restructuring.

On Tuesday 10 October 2023, Professor Emeritus Graeme Gill, President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies and longtime expert in Soviet and Russian politics at the University of Sydney, addressed the Institute on Russia's internal affairs in the context of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, with a focus on Russia's economy, society, […]

In this article I aim to provide a better understanding of the concept 'non-governmental organization' and its implications for the politics of international relations. As the prevailing confusion about the term stems largely from poor knowledge about the politics behind its introduction and function, the overarching question asks how NGOs have been socially constructed as actors on the margins of the international stage. To this end, a sound insight into the little-known conceptual history and background of the term 'NGO' in what might be called a 'Westphalian nomenclature' is given. I suggest that the still prevalent NGO terminology is an outcome of political games played by various actors, restricting and containing the signified organizations. The article provides a non-substantial, functional and politics-oriented definition of the term NGO, which differs significantly from previous attempts to attach meaning to it. It also suggests improved choices of terminology for general International Relations theorizing. [Reprinted by permission; copyright 2008 Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]

Examines the persistance of ethnic conflicts and theoretical models to explain their existence. 7 types of ethnic groups in conflict are listed but the schematic classification is not intended to be exhaustive. Presents 4 main case studies: Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Nicaragua, and the Spanish Basques provinces, but also discusses the Kurds, Turks in Cyprus and Bulgaria, Albanians in Yugoslavia, and the problems faced in the Soviet Baltic. (SJK)

Eight papers delivered at a conference sponsored jointly by the Institute of Interamerican Studies, University of Miami, and other organizations, held at Coral Gables, Florida, Dec. 6, 1985. Partial contents: Domestic vulnerabilities, by Bernard Stewart; International threats, by Joel Lisker; Terrorism and the U.S.S.R., by Jiri Valenta; Why is the PLO in Central America? by Charles H. Fairbanks, jr.; Coping legally with terrorism, by Yoram Dinstein.

Human security is concerned with the protection of people from not only external but also domestic threats. It is revolutionary in that it focuses on the individual & evolutionary in that it builds on earlier notions of security, adding the human element to those of territory, economics, & governmental authority. This article addresses a number of questions about human security: How does it differ from earlier practices? Does it drive policy change or is it driven by policy? Is it a new idea? How does global integration affect security? The answers provide a conceptual explanation of human security. The paper goes on to suggest some skills required to incorporate human security competently. As evidence of its efficacy, the Canadian experience in promoting human security as a foreign policy goal is described. Tables. J. Stanton

This writer wants to bring to the notice of his colleagues in the world that the first Hispano-Luso-American Congress of International Law will be held during October of this year in Madrid. The initiative has been taken by a group of Spanish professors and institutions of international law. The preparatory commission is presided over by the well-known international lawyer of the University of Madrid, Yanguas Messia; Dr. Luis Garcia Arias is its Secretary.

AbstractThis article provides an overview of the rules governing the end of application of international humanitarian law (IHL), or the law of armed conflict. It articulates the general principle that, unless there is a good reason of text, principle or policy that warrants an exception, the application of IHL will cease once the conditions that triggered its application in the first place are no longer met. For IHL to apply, its distinct thresholds of application – international armed conflict, belligerent occupation and non-international armed conflict – must continue to be satisfied at any given point in time. The article also examines situations in which a departure from the general rule is warranted, as well as the factors that need to be taken into account in determining the end of each type of armed conflict. In doing so, the article analyzes terminating processes and events, which generally end the application of IHL (but not necessarily all of it), and transformative processes and events, which end the application of one IHL sub-regime but immediately engage another. Finally, the article briefly looks at the (putative) armed conflict between the United States and Al Qaeda and its seemingly imminent end.

Abstract I propose to consider the question, in what way is theology fundamental to the understanding of IR theory? In light of the resurgence of religious interest in global affairs revealing a disciplinary incapacity within IR to deal with the theo-political aspect of its historicity, this thesis brings into focus the hidden dimension of theology in IR theory to argue that there are theological underpinnings in the relationship between IR theory and international history within the discursive history of IR. My argument presupposes that IR and more so International Political Theology is an aesthetic and eschatological endeavour that operates in meta-Christian structures within which a continuing hierarchy privileges the theological over the political representative of the totalising nature of theology. The revival of metaphysics and the Messianic turn in political thought to an extent in response to the 'End of History' thesis marked the renewal of interest in temporal matters that reopened the 'bureau of eschatology.' Taking account of the inherently eschatological nature of theology the aim of this thesis to discern the theme of eschatology in the intellectual history of IR. If IR is about the predicament of history (history is a predicament because it is suspended and not yet accomplished) and if theology is about eschatology then the primary argument of this thesis is that theology is so fundamental to IR theory because IR's object of study (order, a privileged future or utopia) is theology's ultimate point of reference (the katechon and eschatology). The focus of the research into the theological underpinnings centres on an interpretation of the writings of Henri Bergson, Arnold Toynbee and Martin Wight with the aim of tracing and revealing the eschatological dimension embedded in their scholarship. My original contribution to scholarship is to classify three distinct eschatological types gnostic, millenarian and dialectical and to bring these together in a typology of eschatology. The interpretations ...