Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. The contemporary debate in democracies routinely refers to online misinformation, disinformation, and deception, as security-issues in need of urgent attention. Despite this pervasive discourse…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 148-166, June 2022. Standard stories about the development of the study of nonviolent struggle characterize the maturation of the field as moving from principle to pragmatics, norm to …
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. Emer de Vattel’s argument that states should be understood as free and independent bodies operating as moral persons in the international sphere is credited with launching a doctrine of soverei…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. In 1995, the UN Commission on Global Governance published their “Our Global Neighbourhood” report and the academic journal “Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Orga…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. The paper assesses the questions if and, if yes, how the republican conception of free statehood can and should inform a compelling understanding of a legitimate post-Westphalian political orde…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 244-261, June 2022. In recent decades, decisionmakers have increasingly faced conflicts juxtaposing demands for self-determination and inclusion. Political theorists term this juxtapos…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 225-243, June 2022. International relations have always been related to a particular sense of living together, both as a concept and as an academic field shaped by some practices of be…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 205-224, June 2022. This article argues that the normative promise of recognition theory in International Relations has become increasingly inadequate to the cross-cutting and intersec…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 186-204, June 2022. The striving for self-worth is recognized as a driving force in international relations; but if self-worth is understood as a function of status in a power hierarch…
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 167-185, June 2022. Realism, constructivism, and liberal institutionalism share the assumption that states are rational and self-maximizing actors. While these theories disagree as to …