The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) exercises soft rather than hard power to change states' behaviour through monitoring and capacity-building activities. Through the lens of Michel Foucault's disciplinary power, these activities are reconceived as practices of...

The paper aims to examine economic interdependence and balancing power politics, and their mixed implications for regional institution building in East Asia based on the concept of common security. By pointing out the gap between the violent conflict prediction and the stability and prosperity...

Das vorliegende Sammelwerk untersucht in zahlreichen Beiträgen die wirtschaftliche und politische Situation Südosteuropas. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei Fragen und Überlegungen zum EU-Beitritt. Es wird erörtert, welche Vor- und Nachteile die EU-Erweiterung sowohl für die neuen wie auch für...

International relations play out on multiple frequencies, where adversary states in one conflict may be partners in another. How do such shifting circumstances influence the conditions for ongoing international military operations? This paper seeks answers through an analysis of Operation...

We study the formation of a ruling coalition in political environments. Each individual is endowed with a level of political power. The ruling coalition consists of a subset of the individuals in the society and decides the distribution of resources. A ruling coalition needs to contain enough...

We study the formation of a ruling coalition in political environments. Each individual is endowed with a level of political power. The ruling coalition consists of a subset of the individuals in the society and decides the distribution of resources. A ruling coalition needs to contain enough...

Приведены результаты теоретического исследования вероятностного изменения сущности политики как элемента модели государственного суверенитета и...