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Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation 等级制度、战争和国家形成中的三边政治

IF 3.3 1区社会学

International Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000209

Patrick J. McDonald, Kevin Galambos

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Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation 等级制度、战争和国家形成中的三边政治

IF 3.3 1区社会学

International Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000209

Patrick J. McDonald, Kevin Galambos

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Law and politics from the sea 来自海洋的法律与政治

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000192

Itamar Mann

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‘Getting Asia right’: de-essentializing China's hegemony in historical Asia “正确对待亚洲”:弱化中国在历史上亚洲的霸权

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000143

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

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The United Nations of IR: power, knowledge, and empire in Global IR debates 国际关系的联合国:全球国际关系辩论中的权力、知识和帝国

1区社会学

International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000167

Tarak Barkawi, Christopher Murray, Ayşe Zarakol

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Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology 三种全球视野:全球国际关系、全球历史、全球历史社会学

1区社会学

International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000179

Michael Barnett, George Lawson

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Global international relations and the essentialism trap 全球国际关系与本质主义陷阱

1区社会学

International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000131

Michael Barnett, Ayşe Zarakol

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Response section 响应部分

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000155

Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Manjeet S. Pardesi, Musab Younis

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Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India 诞生时的全球:国际关系学科知识的关系社会学与印度案例

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000180

Martin J. Bayly

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Property and international relations: lessons from Locke on anarchy and sovereignty 财产与国际关系:洛克关于无政府状态与主权的教训

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s175297192300012x

Nancy Bertoldi

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