This article raises the question of how NATO became bogged down in Afghanistan. I
scrutinise how the alliance became involved in Afghanistan and how it formulated its …

A growing wave of studies in international relations is interested in “infrastructure.” Pipelines,
ports, financial transaction arrangements, and other large technical systems increasingly …

The human fascination with the art of predicting the future derives from the practical need to
anticipate events to make adequate decisions. While science fiction has undoubtedly …

In their ground-breaking philosophical investigation of the 'practice turn'Lechner and Frost
prompt a standpoint debate in international relations theory, which touches upon the …

In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security
arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on …

" The value of a pragmatist and relational view of normativity lies in two contributions. The
first is that which escapes the'co-constitutionalist'binary that is ontologically embedded in …

The digital pdf of Chapter 4 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This
collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore …

This article analyzes learning in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) by
way of drawing on recent theoretical advancements on the concept of communities of …

China's rise and its importance to international relations as a discipline-defining
phenomenon is well recognized. Yet when scholars analyze China's foreign relations, they …

This monograph is a long-term study of a dyadic case in international relations. By looking at
the psycho-historical transformation of Turkey-Iran diplomatic interactions, this study …