CIR is an independent, non-governmental, 12-year old think-tank, dedicated to the study of international relations and those foreign policy issues, which are of crucial importance to Poland, Europe and transatlantic relations in both the long and the short-term. CIR carries out its own research...

This article develops a theoretical framework to analyze the rise and spread of global public policy. After an introduction to the background of sociological institutionalism, it first elaborates on the role and functions of international organizations, identifying instruments by which these can...

Die Analyse zeigt die formellen und informellen Rahmenbedingungen, Kompetenzen und Interaktionsmuster im Handlungsspektrum sicherheitspolitischer Interventionen der Europäischen Union auf, welches von struktureller Prävention bis hin zu militärischen Eingriffen reicht. Sie wirft überdies die...

The global balance of power is changing, and the role of the US as the only superpower is being challenged by emerging new powers and a still more powerful China. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Persian Gulf. Two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and continually rising debt have meant that...

This paper constitutes a component of a larger research project. The larger project attempts to address two issues in international relations - - one substantive and theoretical, the second epistemological and ontological. The first issue, which will be the focus of this paper, considers the...

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

Twenty years ago, in the pages of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community's 'civilian power' in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to...

How EU policy for global development will look in the future depends on how the organisation manages two key challenges: The changing political dynamics within an enlarged EU with a diverse set of preferences - and the evolving external environment characterized by emphasis on global public...