Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality,
demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the …

" State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's
international behaviour, we have to open the black box... State authority is fragmenting …

" Areas of limited statehood are ubiquitous. Most states in the contemporary international
system contain areas in which states are too weak to set and enforce rules and/or lack the …

A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive
solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state. How do states …

This article revisits and seeks to challenge one of the most powerful hypotheses in the
political economy scholarship: the supposedly negative relationship between ethnic …

Surprisingly, perhaps, China's flagship Belt and Road Initiative expresses a familiar mix of
the security–development nexus and liberal interdependence thesis: Chinese leaders …

The COVID-19 pandemic has elicited a wide range of national responses with an even
wider range of outcomes in terms of infections and mortalities. Australia is a rare success …

The volume that we introduce breaks with the prevalent tendency in International Relations
(IR) scholarship to treat rising powers (such as China, Russia, India and Brazil) as unitary …

 Abstract Today's scholarship and policymaking on business and human rights (BHR) urges
businesses to better understand their human rights responsibilities and remedy them, when …

EU-LISTCO starts from the assumption that Europe's internal and external environment is
characterized by two risk factors, which represent challenges for the external action of the …