THE HIERARCHY OF STATES AS A MANIFESTATION OF ASYMMETRY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The typology and functional features of the subjects of international relations are analyzed. Approaches to the definition of «superpower», «large, medium», «small states» are revealed.
Igor Derevіanko
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International Relations as a Social System: From Sociocybernetics to the Sociology of IR
AbstractAgainst current developments in the sociology of IR, from new systemic theorizations of world society to Bourdieusian approaches to the practices of IR scholars, this article claims that relevant problems remain regarding how IR theorizes its social location and reconciles the social character of the world it observes with the social character ...
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International Monetary Fund: From Stabiliy to Instability (The Washington Consensus and Structural Reforms in Latin America [PDF]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created to set a standard for development and to facilitate the exchange transactions of the lnternational Financial System (IFS) in the framework of the established international economic order.
Girón, Alicia
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Relational interpretation of the wave function and a possible way around Bell's theorem
The famous ``spooky action at a distance'' in the EPR-szenario is shown to be a local interaction, once entanglement is interpreted as a kind of ``nearest neighbor'' relation among quantum systems.
C. Rovelli +19 more
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Deafening silence? Marxism, international historical sociology and the spectre of Eurocentrism [PDF]
Approaching the centenary of its establishment as a formal discipline, International Relations today challenges the ahistorical and aspatial frameworks advanced by the theories of earlier luminaries.
Abou-El-Haj RA +51 more
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Adapting the International System of Units to the twenty-first century [PDF]
We review the proposal of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (Comité International des Poids et Mesures, CIPM), currently being considered by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférences Générales des Poids et Mesures,
Mills, Ian M. +4 more
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A Study of Twitter and Clickers as Audience Response Systems in International Relations Courses [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis study conducted experiments using clickers and Twitter in international relations courses to evaluate the effectiveness of audience-response tools on students’ experiences and their performance. The study used both within-group and between-group experimental designs and evaluated the results primarily through inferential descriptive ...
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Graphene: A Context-Preserving Open Information Extraction System [PDF]
We introduce Graphene, an Open IE system whose goal is to generate accurate, meaningful and complete propositions that may facilitate a variety of downstream semantic applications. For this purpose, we transform syntactically complex input sentences into
Cetto, Matthias +3 more
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Congress’s Under-Appreciated Power to Define and Punish Offenses against the Law of Nations [PDF]
Perhaps no Article I power of Congress is less understood than the power to define and punish . . . Offences against the Law of Nations. There are few scholarly works about the Clause; Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch have seldom ...
Kent, Andrew
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The purpose of this article is to define the international economic law as a branch of international law, its subject, structure and also a place in the general system of legal regulation of international economic relations.
O. N. Tolochko
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