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Back from the dead: the ecology of IR 起死回生：投资者关系生态学

IF 1.5 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241269708

Peter Newell

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Transforming epistemological disconnection from the more-than-human world: (inter)nodes of ecologically attuned ways of knowing 改变认识论上与超越人类的世界脱节的现象：与生态相适应的认识方式的（相互）节点

IF 1.5 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241268340

Erzsébet Strausz

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Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion 本土气候融资与国际关系的世界化：运动中的气候正义

IF 1.5 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241269764

Veronica Kober Gonçalves, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Juliana Lins

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Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR 适合目的？气候变化、安全和投资者关系

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International Relations Pub Date : 2024-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241268270

Matt McDonald

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Embedded hegemony and the evolution of the United States’ structural power 嵌入式霸权与美国结构性权力的演变

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International Relations Pub Date : 2024-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241268418

Madison Cartwright

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Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors 外交政策中的基础权力：国家动员非国家行为者的努力概念化

IF 1.5 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241265615

Jens Heibach, Hakkı Taş

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Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR 重新发现 "科学的意义"？汉斯-摩根索与量子红外伦理辩论

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International Relations Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241265635

Michael PA Murphy

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Interventions of post-colonial states in the normative structure of world politics: the case of Iran and the norm of democracy 后殖民国家对世界政治规范结构的干预：伊朗和民主规范案例

IF 1.5 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241265642

Daniela Huber

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Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy 领导人真的重要吗？土耳其外交政策的野心失败

IF 1.6 3区社会学

International Relations Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241248554

Murat Ülgül

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WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics 世卫组织和 COVID-19：科学与政治界限的压力测试

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International Relations Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/00471178241248548

Sara E. Davies, Sophie Harman

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