Private Force and the Making of States, c. 1100-1500

This chapter shows how the distinction between the public and the private emerges with respect to the use of force in conjunction with the long rise of the state in Europe. In drawing a historical conceptual analysis of the changing organization of military power in the making of states, I show why we...

Brazil - A New Global Energy Player and Partner for the EU?

Reforms, Customs and Resilience: Justice for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Liberia

This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in...

On the State in Historical International Relations

On the State System in Historical International Relations

The Modern Roots of Feudal Empires: The Donatary Captaincies and the Legacies of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil

Historical International Relations

As a quarry for data, testing-ground for theory and site of investigation, history has been one of the unacknowledged partners of International Relations. The last two decades has witnessed both a substantial increase in the scope of historical IR scholarship and in the sophistication of methodological...

En ny opprinnelse? Om 1800- tallet som startskuddet for dagens internasjonal politikk

Norway and the BRICS (I): An Overview of Emerging Power Cooperation

Norway and the BRICS (II): The Current State of Play

Norway and the BRICS (IV): Challenges and Opportunities

United Nations Peace Operations: Aligning Principles and Practice

Undermining Hegemony? Building a Framework for Goods Substitution

The logics that we have outlined may, indeed, be applicable to a wide array of international actors and organizations that are aspiring to play public goods substitution roles. Likewise, they are applicable to a number of actors seeking alternative access to public goods. For example, supply and demand...

A Great Power Performance: Norway, Status and the Policy of Involvement

Small States and Status

Small States and Status Seeking : Norway's Quest for International Standing

Status-seeking is an important aspect of the foreign policies of a number of small states, but one that has been rarely studied. This book aims to contribute to our understanding not only of status-seeking, by coming at that question from a new angle, that of a small state, but also to our understanding...

The Confessional State in International Politics: Tudor England, Religion, and the Eclipse of Dynasticism

Hva er en emerging power?: Noen konseptuelle betraktninger rundt fremvoksende (stor)makter

Sovereignty and Solidarity: Moral Obligation, Confessional England, and the Huguenots

Brazil: An Aspiring Global Power