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Informal state influence in international organizations: examining the link between executive head nationality and earmarked funding. 国家在国际组织中的非正式影响：审查行政首长国籍与指定资金之间的联系。

IF 3.7 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2025-07-23 eCollection Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/13540661251355045

Giuseppe Zaccaria, Bernhard Reinsberg

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Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict 崔波诺?商业精英和国家间冲突

1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/13540661251327116

Tore Wig, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen

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Global injustice and the production of ontological insecurity 全球不公正与本体论不安全感的产生

IF 3.4 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231219087

Adam B. Lerner

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Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia 制造共识：中国的战略叙事与亚洲地缘经济竞争

IF 3.4 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231219090

A. Lin, Saori N. Katada

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Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing 西方替代中国的国际基础设施融资为何失败？

IF 3.4 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231218573

Shahar Hameiri, L. Jones

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The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism 国家失败的后遗症：殖民主义的回声和后遗症

IF 3.4 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-12-09 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231215582

Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Ari Jerrems

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Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions 隐藏的人物：法律专家如何影响国际机构的设计

IF 3.4 1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231210931

Nicole De Silva, Anne Holthoefer

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The Role of Globalization in the Spread of Technology and Innovation across Global Markets: The Case of China 全球化在技术和创新在全球市场传播中的作用:以中国为例

1区社会学

European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI: 10.47604/jir.2162

Rawda Alejla

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Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations 转向的反射:转向在国际关系中的兴起

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European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231205694

Jaakko Heiskanen, Paul Beaumont

{"title":"Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations","authors":"Jaakko Heiskanen, Paul Beaumont","doi":"10.1177/13540661231205694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231205694","url":null,"abstract":"The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in number and predominantly concerned with the most prominent recent turns. By excavating the forgotten history of IR’s earliest turns from the 1980s and tracing the evolution of turn-talk over time, this article reveals a crucial yet overlooked internalist driver behind the phenomenon: the rise of reflexivity. Rather than emerging in the 21st century, turn-talk began at the end of the 1980s as a series of turns away from positivism and towards reflexivity. Cumulatively, this first wave of turns would denaturalise IR’s state-centric ontology while enshrining reflexivity as a canonical good among critical scholars. By the mid-1990s, however, these metatheoretical critiques of positivism had produced a substantial backlash. Charged with fostering an esoteric deconstructivism, a new generation of reflexivists set out to demonstrate the feasibility of post-positivist empirical research. As a result, IR’s turning also took on a different form from the 2000s: whereas the first wave of turns had mounted an epistemological and methodological attack against the positivist mainstream, the second wave set about bringing new ontological objects under the scrutiny of reflexivist scholars. This shift from anti-positivist to mostly intra-reflexivist turning was facilitated by the institutionalisation of critical IR as a major subfield of the discipline. It is the privileged position of reflexivity among critical IR scholars that is the condition of possibility for endless turning, accentuated by mounting pressures to demonstrate novelty in an increasingly competitive environment.","PeriodicalId":48069,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Relations","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135729725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enacting the pluriverse in the West: contemplative activism as a challenge to the disenchanted one-world world 在西方演绎多元宇宙:对不再抱有幻想的单一世界的挑战

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European Journal of International Relations Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/13540661231200864

Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg

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