City diplomacy as a strategic partnership: insights from Manchester and Wuhan [0.03%]
战略性城市外交：曼彻斯特与武汉的实践与发展
Weiwei Chen,Filippo Boni,Yameng Zhang
Weiwei Chen
Cities are increasingly recognised as key agents in international relations, yet they are often overlooked as independent actors with their own priorities. By adapting the concept of strategic partnerships (SPs), originally devised for stat...
Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett
Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett
This article argues that the concept of state capture helps to structure our understanding of patterns of grand corruption seen around the world in varied contexts, and increasingly even in countries once regarded as secure democracies. Thi...
Holly Eva Ryan,Caterina Mazzilli
Holly Eva Ryan
One of the latest methods being trialled across the development sector to help advance progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is 'twinning'. In this equation, twinning is rendered as a broadly replicable me...
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats [0.03%]
美国外交政策精英与意识形态中国威胁的全面复兴——修辞及其在地缘政治威胁中的意识形态作用分析
Stephanie Christine Winkler,Björn Jerdén
Stephanie Christine Winkler
Since 2018, US foreign policy elites have portrayed China as the gravest threat to their country. Why was China predominantly cast as an ideological threat, even though other discursive formulations, such as a geopolitical threat, were plau...
Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way [0.03%]
关于适应力、性别与冲突的思考：以多维度方式审视适应力
Ana E Juncos,Philippe Bourbeau
Ana E Juncos
Resilience has become an oft-invoked concept in development and security policy circles and the subject of much debate in the literature. Yet, one aspect that needs to be further theorised is the complex relationship between resilience, con...
Is it only about science and policy? The 'intergovernmental epistemologies' of global environmental governance [0.03%]
仅关乎科学和政策吗？全球环境治理中的“政府间知识体系”
Matteo De Donà
Matteo De Donà
Although international actors operating under the United Nations umbrella put much faith in the possibility of bridging science and policy through various institutional arrangements, research in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) trad...
The LIO's growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation [0.03%]
不断扩大的民主赤字：政体合法性面临的内生挑战
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen,Berthold Rittberger
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is under pressure from various angles. To account for this phenomenon, a recent trend is to focus on endogenous sources of contestation-institutional properties of the order that create negative feedbac...
Leveraging weakness into strength: how neo-patrimonial oil-producing countries survive economic crises [0.03%]
变劣势为优势：石油出口国如何利用 Neo-Patrimonialism 应对经济危机
Daniel S Leon,Charles Larratt-Smith
Daniel S Leon
Most scholarship on major oil-producing countries (OPCs) focuses on their illiberal characteristics, but scant research explores how these regimes react to periodic oil price collapses, particularly neo-patrimonial OPCs with relatively low ...
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques [0.03%]
一种女性主义的韧性展望：伊丽莎白·格罗斯、利比里亚和平小屋与国际关系批判
Maria Martin de Almagro,Pol Bargués
Maria Martin de Almagro
While the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations have celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, critical scholars claim that the agenda has rarely been able to foster resilience. They show h...
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace [0.03%]
和平建设中的性别-韧性关联：追求可持续和平的努力
Karin Aggestam,Linda Eitrem Holmgren
Karin Aggestam
Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analyses global trends and variation in peacebuilding policy and practice. It advances a...