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The 'Empty-Shell' Approach: The Setup Process of International Administrations in Timor-Leste and Kosovo, Its Consequences and Lessons.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. May2011, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p190-211. 22p.
Abstract: State-building under the aegis of international administrations has faced various hurdles and obstacles in Kosovo and Timor-Leste-failures that came to full light in March 2004 in Kosovo and in May 2006 in Timor-Leste. However, the international concep...
Disaggregating Torture Allegations: Introducing the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Country-Year Data Disaggregating Torture Allegations: Introducing the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Country-Year Data.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. May2013, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p199-220. 22p.
Abstract: The Ill-Treatment and Torture ( ITT) Data Collection Project uses content analysis to measure allegations of government ill-treatment and torture made by Amnesty International ( AI) from 1995 to 2005. ITT's country-year ( CY) data quantify AI allegatio...
Network Institutionalism and NGO Studies.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Nov2012, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p366-389. 24p.
Abstract: Understanding the institutional identity (as opposed to the organizational one) of non-governmental organizations ( NGOs) within structures of global governance is the main theme underpinning this work. Studies documenting the quantitative rise of the ...
All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2015, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p40-49. 10p.
Abstract: Analytical pluralism in IR theory is a welcome development, yet it may also play a role in reifying our contemporary liberal world order. While there is clearly greater analytical diversity in the IR discipline today than in the latter half of the twen...
The European Union as a Protagonist to the United States on Climate Change.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2006, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p1-22. 22p. 1 Chart.
Abstract: The European Union (EU) has established itself as the moving force in the development of the international climate-change regime. By proceeding with the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and building its own carbon emissions trading system, it has dir...
Contesting the Responsibility to Protect.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p75-97. 23p.
Abstract: This article explores the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a contested norm through a detailed study of the position of one major power--Russia--and brief consideration of those of the remaining BRICS. Although Russia's position on R2P has been towar...
Multilateralism as an End in Itself.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2011, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p18-26. 9p.
Abstract: Students and practitioners of world politics need to assess the value of multilateralism not only as a means to an end, but also as an end in and of itself. The functional view, according to which multilateral channels are worth pursuing only insofar a...
The Making of the Inter-American Democratic Charter: A Case of Complex Multilateralism.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2004, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p92-113. 22p.
Abstract: This article examines the diplomatic process found in the making of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Many components of this dynamic point to a significant bending of the “old” pattern of multilateralism associated with the Organization of Americ...
The Development Aid Regime at Fifty: Policy Challenges Inside and Out.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Feb2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p55-74. 20p. 1 Chart, 6 Graphs.
Abstract: The paper considers the status of the global development aid regime, which originated in 1960 and remains the primary conduit for the delivery of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to impoverished states. We begin by situating the inquiry in regime ...
Lost and Found: The WikiLeaks of De Facto State-Great Power Relations.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International Studies Perspectives. Aug2016, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p267-286. 20p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart, 4 Graphs.
Abstract: De facto states are typically seen as marginal actors in the international system. Although they control territory and provide governance, their claims to sovereignty remain largely unrecognized. It is widely believed that such entities are either igno...