The book reconstructs how the normative yardsticks that underpinevaluations of international organizations have changed since 1970. Basedon in-depth case studies of normative change in five internationalorganizations over a period of five decades,…
In 2017, Korean crisis escalated as Donald Trump began “war of words” with DPRK’s chairman Kim Jong-un. Each threat both leaders made might eventually be understood by the other party as a declaration of war. Donald Trump wanted to “clean up the…
This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications. While fieldwork has gradually evolved into standard practice in IR research, the question of possible failuresin field-based…
Migration to India of Nepali workers is a historical phenomenon. Due to 'open border' and multidimensional inter-linkages, migration for work persists to this day. The importance and challenges of the labour market for Nepali migrants in India are…
Visegrádská skupina se po rozpadu sovětského bloku stala nejvýraznějšímregionálním uskupením v prostoru střední Evropy. Historicky se jedná oregion s mimořádnou geopolitickou senzitivitou, přičemž po pádu železnéopony se státy v něm ležící…
The aim of this article is to analyse the issue of “weak separatism” in Latin America as well as to give an answer to the question why there are no significant separatist movements in this region. The authors provide the definitions of separatism and…
The text presents a contribution to the study of territoriality of violent non-state actors in areas of limited internal state power projection. It presentsthe strategy of liquid territoriality as a survival strategy of the territorialviolent…
Are United Nations peacekeeping missions effective at reducing violence incivil wars? Although UN peacekeeping is a notable intervention tool, theinternational community lacks systematic knowledge of how well itmitigates civil war violence. Given…
An emerging literature has shown concerns about the impact of thepandemic on the proliferation of digital surveillance. Contributing to thesedebates, in this paper we demonstrate how the pandemic facilitates digitalsurveillance in three ways: (1) By…
Feminism’s origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostlywhite and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has beenand continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from allwalks of life have been mobilizing for…
