International Relations Department Research Articles

ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF COOPERATION WITH ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN STATES IN THE SPHERE OF FORENSIC EXPERT ACTIVITY

The article shows the role of international cooperation in the field of forensic expert activity. On development of forensic expert institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the expansion of the possibilities for forensic examinations have a positive effect their activity in the implementation of international contacts: the organization of joint international scientific and practical conferences, seminars, internship of specialists with the purpose of sharing work experience, training of forensic experts, familiarization with the organization of activities and advanced methods of conducting forensic examinations and expert studies, allows a specialist there constantly to be aware of the latest achievements of science and to use the experience of their colleagues from other countries. Currently, work is underway to conduct joint scientific developments, training of highly qualified scientific personnel, but this is not specified in Art. 24 of the Law about forensic science, and therefore we propose this article be amended as follows: "State specialized institutions that perform forensic examinations are entitled establish international scientific ties with the institutions of forensic science, criminalistics and so on other states for the purpose of joint research and development, exchange of scientific and methodological information and printed publications, use of common international information funds, data banks, training, retraining and advanced training of forensic experts, international conferences, symposia, seminars, joint publications in forensic science and criminalistics, training of highly qualified scientific personnel". In connection with the further development of international cooperation, it is desirable in the staffing of forensic institutions to provide for such a structural unit as the International Relations Department. In 2018, KhRIFE obtained the Accreditation Certificate for compliance with the requirements of the international standard ISO/IEC 17025. The collection of scientific proceedings "Theory and Practice of Forensic Science and Criminalistics" is included in the international scientometric database Index Copernicus. The development of international cooperation in the field of forensic science will contribute to enhancing the scientific and methodological potential of forensic expert institutions, developing new directions and types of forensic expert activity, and increasing the effectiveness of the fight against crime.

The EU: Power(less) in Statelessness? The Case of the Baltic States

Oleksandra Zmiyenko – MA Law, European Interdisciplinary Studies – College of Europe; Academic Assistant at the College of Europe, EU International Relations Department, Bruges, Belgium. Email: Oleksandra.zmiyenko@coleurope.eu
 Despite still being an emergent research area, statelessness has come to attract growing attention both from academics and among policy-makers. So far, this legal vacuum, that represents a violation of the right to nationality, and has consistently been perceived through the prism of other human rights-related issues. To avoid oversight, statelessness needs to be perceived as a distinct phenomenon and to be addressed as such on the policy-making agenda. The European Union has two overt examples of statelessness among its Member States: Latvia and Estonia. In these post-Soviet countries, statelessness emerged in conjunction with debates over state continuity and state succession. The main question to be asked is to what extent does the EU have leverage when it comes to addressing the problem of statelessness? In its Member States, where questions of citizenship fall under the national competences, the EU influence in this regard seems limited, which is even more apparent outside of the EU. However, for the countries with 'European aspirations', there are different ways to have an impact: either before or after accession. Given its terminological ambiguities and that possible solutions to statelessness may be offered from a diverse range of academic fields, the research methodology of this study is interdisciplinary: from legal to historical analysis. While conditionality imposed on the aspiring members has a clear outcome in terms of legislation changes, once these states have acceded, the EU tends to have less influence. Conditionality might serve as a possibility to address statelessness among the countries with 'European aspirations', while increased pressure to fulfil international obligations may be crucial in dealing with Member States.

The Structure of a Modern Textbook for the Students of the International Relations Department

The Structure of a Modern Textbook for the Students of the International Relations Department

PEMBERDAYAAN LITERASI MEDIA DAN INFORMASI (LMI) UNESCO SEBAGAI SARANA PENCEGAHAN PENYEBARAN HOAKS

This article is part of community service of International Relations Department, Universitas Diponegoro to six targetted high schools in Semarang. Elevated access ofinformation through social medias among high school adolescents makes them vulnerable to “information disorder”. Therefore, counseling for Media and Information Literacy (LMI) is highly necessary. The LMI mechanism issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is used to educate high school students for better information literacy in democracy. The counseling materials included (1) Understanding Hoaks as a deviation of information:Mis-information; Dis-information;and Mal-information, (2) Fighting Disinformation and Misinformation through LMI, and (3) Ex-Post Facts to Check.

Explanation, geopolitics, and liberalism: A reply to Luke Cooper

Journal of Historical SociologyVolume 31, Issue 1 p. e92-e97 RESPONSE Explanation, geopolitics, and liberalism: A reply to Luke Cooper Barry Buzan, Barry BuzanBarry Buzan is Professor Emeritus in the International Relations Department at LSE. George Lawson is Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE. Many thanks to Luke Cooper for his astute comments on our book, and to the editors of the journal for their support for this exchange.Search for more papers by this authorGeorge Lawson, George LawsonBarry Buzan is Professor Emeritus in the International Relations Department at LSE. George Lawson is Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE. Many thanks to Luke Cooper for his astute comments on our book, and to the editors of the journal for their support for this exchange.Search for more papers by this author Barry Buzan, Barry BuzanBarry Buzan is Professor Emeritus in the International Relations Department at LSE. George Lawson is Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE. Many thanks to Luke Cooper for his astute comments on our book, and to the editors of the journal for their support for this exchange.Search for more papers by this authorGeorge Lawson, George LawsonBarry Buzan is Professor Emeritus in the International Relations Department at LSE. George Lawson is Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE. Many thanks to Luke Cooper for his astute comments on our book, and to the editors of the journal for their support for this exchange.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 July 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12160 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume31, Issue1Special Issue: War, revolt and rupture: The historical sociology of the current crisis in the Middle EastMarch 2018Pages e92-e97 RelatedInformation

Feedback: critiquing practice, moving forward

Despite attempts by higher education institutions to improve the quality of feedback on assessed work, dissatisfaction expressed by students remains visible. This article draws upon the preliminary findings of a Higher Education Academy Collaborative Research Project on assessment feedback within two large political science and international relations departments. It offers a critical review of current feedback practices and processes and identifies four key issues – negativity, transferability, intelligibility, and consistency – that require attention in order to deliver more effective assessment feedback. The article also suggests practical ways forward in addressing these issues, highlighting in particular the importance of both structure and timing in helping to produce high-quality feedback efficiently.

Fringe Benefits

Fringe Benefits

Prototype Design for Digital Game-Based Learning in Prisoner’s Dilemma for International Relations Students of Bina Nusantara University

The traditional method of teaching still lacks some elements that require students to delve and understand the application of subject in various situations. A learning method called Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) is used to replace old learning methods with a digital game to learn. This research aims to propose the best method of DGBL design and development to create game prototypes for subject applied by International Relations Department of Bina Nusantara University. This research focuses on developing DGBL for the concept of Prisoner’s Dilemma and taking the case study of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in International Relations Studies. The research uses literature review to back up design theories and survey to determine the basic foundation of prototypes creation. Based on the research surveys, it is concluded that prototypes will apply mobile as the platform, use simulation as the genre, and adopt the style of old American cartoon.

Examination of the Problem Solving Skills of University Students in Albania and Turkey in Terms of Various Variables

Researching the problem solving abilities of the college students in Albania and Turkey by various variances is the general purpose of this research. Within the frame of this general purpose, “are the sub-dimensions of the problem solving inventory of the students of Epoka University of Albania and Selcuk University of Turkey differentiating and according to variances of gender, age and university department?” were researhed. 526 randomly selected undergraduates from the Business, International Relations, Computer Engineering and Civil Engineering departments of the Epoka and Selcuk Universities constituted the sample of the study. Epoka University of Albania was added to the research population with Selcuk University of Turkey because of the fact that the students of it were graduated from Turkish High Schools and they could talk, understand, read and write in Turkish language. The "Problem Solving Inventory" adapted to Turkish by Sahin, Sahin and Heppner (1993) was used in the collection of data. In the study it was determined that the students of Epoka University exhibit more positive problem solving approaches in terms of impatient, avoidant and self-confident approaches than the students attending to Selcuk University. It was also determined that the total problem solving inventory points of the students of the both universities did not differentiate in terms of gender and the departments they attend to, but exhibited a significant difference in terms of the variable of age.

Monitoring of Students` Professional Merits at the University

<p><em>Constant system of monitoring of students` professionals merits is an effective instrument of quality evaluation in higher education. Different approaches to understanding of professional merits are considered in the article. The main professional merits are defined for professionals in the field of international relations. Results of monitoring of students` professional merits are described from first to fifth courses of international relations department. The second research is aimed to the professional merits of future teachers-students. The research demonstrates that the educational environment of university and especially designed and approved program of development of professional merits are important for formation of students` professional competence.</em></p>

Editors’ introduction: neoliberalism and/as terror

The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference entitled “Neoliberalism and/as Terror”, held at the Nottingham Conference Centre at Nottingham Trent University by the Critical Terrorism Studies BISA Working Group (CSTWG) on 15–16 September 2014. The conference was supported by both a BISA workshop grant and supplementary funds from Nottingham Trent University’s Politics and International Relations Department and the Critical Studies on Terrorism journal. Papers presented at the conference aimed to extend research into the diverse linkages between neoliberalism and terrorism, including but extending beyond the contextualisation of pre-emptive counterterrorism technologies and privatised securities within relevant economic and ideological contexts. Thus, the conference sought also to stimulate research into the ways that neoliberalism could itself be understood as terrorism, asking – amongst other questions – whether populations are themselves terrorised by neoliberal policy. The articles presented in this special issue reflect the conference aims in bringing together research on the neoliberalisation of counterterrorism and on the terror of neoliberalism.

Latin Women Take the Helm

Latin Women Take the Helm

Pre-1949 Chinese IR: an occluded history

Chinese scholars have achieved a comprehensive consensus on the disciplinary history of International Relations (IR) in China. However, this collective understanding of the evolution of Chinese IR is problematic because it denies the existence of pre-1949 Chinese IR and mistakenly sets the starting point of Chinese IR to be the mid 1960s, thus providing a progressive image of the IR discipline in China which is historically untenable. This essay rectifies this misunderstanding by reconstructing the history of Chinese IR before 1949. It verifies the existence of pre-1949 Chinese IR by reviewing the IR-relevant institutional setting in Chinese universities before 1949 and comparing the situation before 1949 with that in the mid 1960s, when the three IR departments were established. Further, the essay tentatively explains why pre-1949 Chinese IR has disappeared in the mainstream discourse of the history of Chinese IR. It argues that the interruption of the evolution of IR in China in the early 1950s and the specific power–knowledge interaction mode established in Chinese IR in the late 1950s are the two main causes responsible for the absence of pre-1949 Chinese IR in the history of the IR discipline in China.

The Personal is Not Political: At Least in the UK's Top Politics and IR Departments

Through mapping the provision of teaching gender and sexuality studies on politics/political science and international relations (IR) programmes, this article asserts that the top-ranked politics and IR departments in the UK offer very little provision of such teaching. We argue that this lack of gender and, more so, sexuality teaching is highly problematic for the discipline. Moreover, we suggest that the lack of such provision is not reflective of staff research interests, potentially not reflective of the market (i.e. students), works against the trend of mainstreaming gender, and is problematic in the wider sense in that gender and sexuality are rendered invisible or as trivial matters. Overall, then, this article contends that curricula in politics and IR departments work to perpetuate the idea that the ‘personal is not political’, thereby defining the parameters of the discipline in both a narrow and inaccurate way.

European Insecurity: Managing Changing Relations at Home and Abroad

Dr. Margriet Drent is a Senior Research Fellow at the Security and Conflict Programme of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ and Assistant Professor at the International Relations and International Organisation Department of the University of Groningen. Dr. Drent’s PhD on the ‘Europeanisation of security’ focused on what is now known as the Common Security and Defence Policy. She is also a member of the Peace and Security Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs.

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

FOCUS □ BUSINESSAND HUMANRIGHTS The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights I global Principles to newer be scaffolding human built The governance forms Guiding provide around rights for of Principlesprovide scaffoldingfor newer formsof human rights global governance to be builtaround BEN MOXHAM isPolicy Officer with the European Union and International Relations Department of the TUC in London The Elvis-like Human UN Guiding Rights statusin Principles have the achieved international on Business an human almost and Human Rightshave achieved an almost Elvis-like statusin the international human rights and Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR) communities since theywere approvedby the UN HumanRights Councilback in May 2011. Countless seminars, conferences, businessguides and careers havebeen launchedintheir name. In contrast onlya handful of tradeunionists seem to have engagedwiththemin anydetail. Yet theGuidingPrinciples have thepotential to amplify unionorganising and bargaining efforts, especially in supplychains.Thisarticle explores whythiscouldbe thecase. Pennedby former UN Special Representative JohnRuggieand sixyearsinthemaking, the29 UN GuidingPrinciples on Businessand Human Rights are a setofrecommendations to governments , businessandsociety on howtotacklethe globalproblem ofbusiness-related humanrights abuse. ForRuggie, thescope and impactofbusiness has vastlyoutgrown the abilityof societiesto managetheir adverseconsequences. To fixthese so-called'governance gaps' of globalisation, he proposeda three'pillars'to guide action:the statedutyto protect; thebusinessresponsibility to respect;and access to remedy forvictims of corporate-related harm. Whatdo thesemeansfor workers andunions? The state dutyto protect. The first pillarmakesit clearthatstatesplaya uniqueand essential role in implementing their international human rights obligations. Companies cannotand should not attempt to police and enforce thelawsnecessary toprotect people. To takean obviousexample:itwillultimately takelaws,policiesandan effective ruleoflawto end forcedlabourin Burmaand not company actionalone.Ofcourse,companiesaren'tletoff the hook if states fail to act. The Guiding Principles makeclearthat a company needstodo all thatitcan to addressa humanrights harmit is associatedwithregardless ofwhatthestateis orisn'tdoing. Italso meansthat companiesshouldn't seekto fulfil theroleofthestate.Company-funded auditorsand grievancemechanisms arguablyhave someroletoplaybutthey arenota substitute for effective labourinspectorates and courts. Have states fallen overthemselves inthestampede to meetthisduty? I doubtthereis a government that hasrecently brought itslabourlaws into line with ILO conventionsbecause the Guiding Principles said so. Instead, progress has been subtleandtypically insofter lawareas.The Netherlands forexamplehasplacedthecoreILO conventions intoitspublicprocurement policies, and theEU is making progress on company disclosureintheextractives industry. Advocates for both measures readilyinvoked the Guiding Principles. TheUKwillpublishitsimplementation planin thefirst halfof2013.Whilethestrategy is likely topromote guidanceforBritish companies operatingin difficult overseasenvironments I would bet mybirthday presents thatitdoesn'trestore the unfair dismissalrights thatthe government recently tookawayfrom the2.7 million workers withbetweenone totwoyearsofservice. Responsibility to respect Thesecondpillar oftheGuiding Principles isalso refreshingly simple: businesses shouldbe responsiblefortheir impacts on humanrights. Being 'responsible' meansthatifa company causes,contributes oris associatedwithan actual orpotential humanrights adverseimpact then itneeds to prevent thatimpact(or mitigate and remediate it).Companiescan'tpickand choose whatbeingresponsible means:sponsoring a fun runhasnothing todo with theGuiding Principles especially ifa company is turning a blindeyeto unionbusting initssupplychain. And thisresponsibility is not limited by the employment contract orthecorporate veil.So, a clothing brandmaynothavea Delhihomeworkeron thepayroll, butifit'ssourcing contracts are denying hera living wage or resulting inunsafe workingconditions,then they need to act. Extending responsibility downthesupplychain iscritical for workers andunionsseeking tocombat thealarming riseof precarious work:those jobs madeinsecure, low paid and dangerous by companyoutsourcing. In the longertermthis idea of responsibility has thepotential to overcomethetypically restrictive and confusing tests innational lawoverwhoisandisn't protected by employment law. By 'human rights',the Guiding Principles meansall of them.Companycodes of conduct thatcontinueto ignoretradeunion rights, or replacethem withlimpreferences to'listening to workers'will now be even less credible.The Guiding Principles also makeitclearthat companiesneedtostrive toadheretointernational standardsregardless ofthedictatorship they've setup businessin. Claiming adherenceto weak local lawswillnotstackup. Let'stakea reallifeexample.Earlier thisyear managementat the Saida biscuitfactoryin Tunisiarefused to recognise or negotiate witha newlyformed unionandsackedZed Naloufi, the unionleaderwho hadbeen leadingtoughnegotiations on behalfof1600workers. INTERNATIONAL union rights Pa98 4Volume 19lssue 42012 FOCUS □ BUSINESS ANDHUMANRIGHTS Ina publicspatwiththeInternational Unionof Food workers (IUF), Kraft (now called 'Mondelez'), the49 percentownersofthefactory , tried towipetheir handscleanbystating that they 'do notexercise management control' andin anyeventexpectedtheir jointventure partner to comply withlocal lawsand regulations'. Neither excusestacks up undertheGuiding Principles as theIUFwerequicktopointout. Thereis a growinglistof companiesstating that they wanttobe,oralready are'Ruggie-complian ť.The realquestionis whether unionsand civilsociety groupshavetheresources anda supportive policyenvironment to be able to hold companies tothoseclaims. So howdo unionsknowifa company is being responsible? TheGuiding Principles callon companiesto understand theconsequencesof their actions andthenremedy anyhumanrights harm througha continualprocess of what Ruggie termed 'humanrights due diligence'. He...

Interview with Olesya Orlenko, in charge of the International Relations Department at the Historical Memory Foundation in Moscow, conducted in February and October, 2011, in Paris

Structure, Purpose and Organization of the Historical Memory Foundation PIPSS.ORG - Could you introduce the Historical Memory Foundation (http://historyfoundation.ru/) and its staff? Olesya Orlenko: As is indicated in our web site, the Foundation is a non-profit organization. Our goal is to provide assistance to researchers on Russian and East-European history of XXth century. It means that when we have an interesting project in our hands we look for the possibilities to help the authors to c...

International relations in Indonesia: historical legacy, political intrusion, and commercialization

This paper is about the development of international relations (IR) as a field of study in Indonesian universities. It argues that IR as a discipline has been encountering a paradox. On the one hand, while the discipline has been increasingly held in high esteem by students, marked by an increasing number of applicants to IR departments across the country; on the other hand, IR scholars show too little commitment to research and publication for the development of the discipline; and if they do publish, the quality of writing is generally poor. This article indicates that the paradox of teaching IR in Indonesia has much to do with historical legacies and political intrusion, as well as an economic environment in which universities are increasingly driven toward commercial activities. All these factors shape the current development of social science in general, and IR in particular.

A Revolution in International Relation Theory: Or, What If Mueller Is Right?

Author's Note: War has been the primary focus of the scholarly study of international relations (IR) from its very beginning. E.H. Carr and his colleagues at Aberystwyth created the first IR department in 1919 in the wake of the Great War at least partially in the hope of preventing the next one. Their lack of success did not keep war and from becoming the primary issues of study for most students of international politics ever since. Conflict has been the direct or indirect topic of much of the work that IR scholars have produced during the last century and, indeed, has been one of the main reasons why many of them entered the field in the first place. If the fundamental nature of warfare were to change, therefore, one would expect repercussions in the field of IR. The obsolescence-of-major-war argument, which found renewed energy with the publication of John Mueller's Retreat from Doomsday, seems to describe one such fundamental change. The suggestion that the great powers may have put war behind them has been debated at some length over the past 17 years, with its many skeptics pointing out that such optimistic ideas are not new. Prior articulations of perpetual peace have always been eventually proven wrong by war's depressing proclivity for resurrection. Supporters have not moved far beyond basic explanations of the argument, at least to this point, in large part because its nature seems to preclude definitive proof or falsification. It is, after all, a theory of the future as much as of the present. The development of the argument has stalled in the time since Mueller's book was published, with a number of key questions remaining unanswered. Would state behavior remain unchanged absent the realistic possibility of major war? How would the study of international politics need to be adjusted to describe accurately an age of great power peace? In other words, what if Mueller is right? In some senses, therefore, this forum is an exercise in conjecture and speculation. It asks the reader to accept the argument--ifjust for a moment--that the great powers have put warfare behind them, at least in their interactions with one another. For some, this will require a nearimpossible stretch of the imagination; for others, it will be a logical and overdue recognition of modern reality. If it is true that many nations no longer consider fighting such wars, then many of our central beliefs about state behavior will have to be rethought and adjusted to better describe twenty-first century realities. This forum contains three parts. (1) The first explores the current state of the argument and its critics and speculates on its importance to a field traditionally focused upon the great powers, discussing the reasons to believe that the obsolescence of major war may eventually lead to the obsolescence of all war. (2) The second contains multiple parts, each of which proposes a central theoretical implication of the obsolescence-of-major-war argument and considers the ways in which some of the major theories and debates in the field would be affected if the great powers prove stubbornly insistent on conducting peaceful relations. A new conception of power itself may be in order; for instance, one that makes a distinction between the potential and kinetic power of a state. This argument also has implications for the relative vs. absolute

U.S. Intelligence Reform: Problems and Prospects

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsArthur S. HulnickProfessor Arthur S. Hulnick, a veteran of more than thirty-five years in the Intelligence Community, teaches in the International Relations Department at Boston University. At the Central Intelligence Agency, he edited the President's Daily Brief and was Coordinator of the CIA's Office of Academic Affairs in the Office of Public Affairs. He is the author of Fixing The Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century (Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger, 2000) and Keeping Us Safe: Secret Intelligence and Homeland Security (Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger, 2004).