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Globalizing the international: Bull's metaphysics of order 全球化国际：布尔的秩序形而上学

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000148

Regan Burles

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Stay off my field: policing boundaries in human rights and democracy promotion 远离我的领域:维护人权和促进民主的边界

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000161

S. Bush, Sarah S. Stroup

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The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security 生命的不可承受之轻?重新配置本体论安全的道德基础和来源

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000173

D. Bolton

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INT volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter INT第14卷第3期封面和封面

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/s175297192200015x

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Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’ 在“国际理论的终结”中对女性国际思想史进行理论化

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000082

Adom Getachew, D. Bell, C. Enloe, Vineet Thakur

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The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45 威权主义的挑战:关于专制与国际关系的自由主义思考，1930 - 1945

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-10-24 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000136

Matthew Draper, Stephan Haggard

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Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception 重叠共识的人权观:罗尔斯式的概念

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000124

R. Herr

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Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment 构想良好的全球国家：民粹主义时刻后的进步外交政策

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000057

J. Gilmore

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On the right to diplomacy: historicizing and theorizing delegation and exclusion at the United Nations 论外交权利:联合国的授权和排斥的历史化和理论化

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000045

C. Constantinou, Fiona McConnell

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Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency 成员主导的国际组织作为行动者：自下而上的公司代理理论

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International Theory Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971922000069

Thom Gehring, Kevin Urbanski

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