Foreign Policy Instrument, Actor, or Infrastructure? Conceptualizing the Wagner Group in Sudan
This article significantly enhances our understanding of non-state actors by conceptualizing and analyzing the Wagner Group as an instrument for Russia, an independent actor and an infrastructure for material and ideational flows.
Leadership Styles and International Agenda-Setting: Understanding Small-State and Middle-Power Leadership on the Responsibility to Protect
Drawing on recent advances in management theory and foreign policy analysis, this article constructs a typology of foreign policy leadership styles and shows how Canada, Sweden and Denmark successfully took leadership on R2P in the UN.
The EU’s soft balancing governance model: origins, characteristics and prospects for the future
This article reconceptualizes soft balancing as a tool for understanding the EU’s governance model, arguing that it is characterized by embedded and inclusive institutional soft balancing: member states use institutional mechanisms for pursuing power and interests by binding other actors through norms, rules and procedures inside the institutions.
International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics
This volume examines how international organizations contribute to and detract from peaceful change. Providing a historical overview of international organizations, from the nineteenth century to the current day, a team of leading scholars offer an overview of how major theoretical approaches contribute to our understanding of the role played by international organizations in peaceful change and examine selected organizations.
Junior allies in wars of choice: Party politics and role conceptions in Danish and Romanian decisions on the Iraq War
Developing and applying a new role theory model of party politics and multinational military operations, this article argues that the rationale for military action is defined in a contest between political parties with expectations of what constitutes the proper purpose (constitutive roles) and functions (functional roles) of the state.
Foreign Policy Analysis and Realism
This chapter provides a critical overview of realist approaches to foreign policy analysis (FPA) and discusses how one of these approaches, neoclassical realism, may be reconceptualized as a template for multi-factor and multi-level analysis benefitting from recent advances in FPA.
Polarity in International Relations
This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future.
In this article, we suggest that the Scandinavian countries represent a useful case to explore whether similar foreign policy profiles and common club membership equalizes or exacerbates the unequal distribution of status recognition in world politics.
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations
This Handbook is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of peaceful change in International Relations. It contains some 41 chapters, all written by scholars from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds examining the multi-faceted dimensions of this subject.
Charismatic Leadership in Foreign Policy
We argue that charismatic leadership makes sense of who ‘we’ are and where we are going through communicative practices. We specify these practices and discuss why charismatic leadership is important in foreign policy analysis; what it is; and how and why sense-making matters for a charismatic leadership style. We contribute with new empirical knowledge by probing our theoretical propositions in a comparative case-study of the charismatic leadership practices of Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.
Handbook on the politics of Small States
Comprehensive and timely, this Handbook identifies the key characteristics, challenges and opportunities involved in the politics of small states across the globe today. Acknowledging the historical legacies behind these states, the chapters unpack the costs and benefits of different political models for small states.
International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide
This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a world of power politics. Anders Wivel, T.V. Paul, and the international group of contributing authors update our understanding of how institutions are viewed among the major theoretical paradigms in international relations, and they seek to bridge the divides.