This paper aims to analyze the importance of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in strengthening Indonesian imagined community as archipelagic country. The idea has become more important following the rise of President Joko Widodo, who…
One of the main issues in international relations today is about the security of (natural) resources. Water is now increasingly viewed as one of strategic resource that has to be secured. In this context, water security and international relations…
The European policies acknowledge greenways and “Green Infrastructure” as strategically planned and delivered networks comprising the broadest range of green spaces and other environmental features. The Aniene River, linking the eastern suburbs of…
Global environmental governance is deeply undermined due to the problem of overlapping function and lack of funding. It is then important to trace the history of the construction of global environmental governance as an institution. This article…
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come torely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger.Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radicalconceptual and organisational…
The recent considerable loss of many of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies remainsunchanged. The authors of the article focus on the period between 2016and 2018, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established itsdiplomatic ties with Taiwan’s former…
Egypt is a place with a long tradition of female participation in revolutions. After years of Mubarak’s despotism, women joined the revolution once again. As a result, they had to deal with the violation of women’s rights. When Morsi was removed,…
Since the end of the Cold War, informal security cooperation has been on the rise. Besides formal alliances, states are increasingly establishing so-called “strategic partnerships”. This new form of security cooperation is currently under-researched,…
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…
AbstractThe paper discusses the question of the significance of the role of funding agencies in the Global Research Council (GRC). GRC, part of the Global Civil Society (GCS) as an epistemic community, is a virtual organization formed in 2012. Most…
