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Marxism
Gareth Dale
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Marxism Introduction Although Marxism has had a good deal to say about historically evolving structures that transcend national borders, the rela...
Mediation and Civil Wars
J. Michael Greig
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Mediation and Civil WarsIntroductionCivil wars constitute among the most destabilizing threats in the international system. Civil wars produce grave h...
Mediation in International Conflicts
Molly M. Melin
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Mediation in International ConflictsIntroductionMediation, like conflict, spans both history and the globe. Examples range from the diplomatic efforts...
Mediation via International Organizations
Zorzeta Bakaki
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Mediation via International OrganizationsIntroductionSeveral factors can increase the risk of war between states. But war primarily occurs when states...
Memory and World Politics
Dovilė Budrytė
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Memory and World PoliticsIntroductionAlthough the study of memory has been very popular in the social sciences since the 1980s, scholars studying worl...
Mercantilism
Kenneth A. Reinert
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
MercantilismIntroductionThe notion of “mercantilism” or the “mercantile system” as a formal idea was identified by Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nat...
Middle East, The Contemporary
Sanford R. Silverburg
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
The Contemporary Middle EastSanford R. Silverburg updated this article on 30 October 2019. It was originally written by Sanford R. Silverburg and Davi...
Middle East, The Contemporary
Sanford R. Silverburg, David Ettinger
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
The Contemporary Middle EastIntroductionAs historic issues continue to fester, historical controversies resurface with renewed intensity, and new thre...
Middle Powers and Regional Powers
Şuhnaz Yilmaz
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Middle Powers and Regional PowersIntroductionThe terms “middle powers” and “regional powers” are increasingly used by politicians, pundits, and schola...
Military Science
Joseph Cerami, John David Young
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Military Science Introduction Military science is a term that generally dates back to the Industrial Revolution, when many disciplines sought to ...
Minorities in the Middle East
Ibrahim Zabad
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Minorities in the Middle EastIntroductionMinority is a difficult concept to deal with as there is no internationally agreed definition that specifies ...
Minority Rights
Hurst Hannum
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Minority Rights Introduction Many disciplines have analyzed the relationship between minorities and majorities and within minority communities...
Morality in Foreign Policy
Maria Fanis
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Morality in Foreign PolicyIntroductionThe foreign policy analysis (FPA) subfield is situated at the intersection of international relations (IR) and f...
Multilateralism (1992–), Return to
James P. Muldoon
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Return to Multilateralism (1992–) Introduction Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and practitioners of international relations (IR) have ...
Nation-Building
Harris Mylonas
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Nation-BuildingIntroductionNation-building may be defined as the process through which the boundaries of the modern state and those of the national co...
National Liberation, International Law and Wars of
Noelle Higgins
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
International Law and Wars of National Liberation Introduction Wars of national liberation are armed struggles waged by a people through its l...
National Security Act of 1947, The
Douglas Stuart
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
The National Security Act of 1947 Introduction The 1947 National Security Act (NSA) is one of the most important pieces of legislation in mode...
Nations and Nationalism
Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Maria Norris
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Nations and NationalismIntroductionAt the heart of nationalism lies the belief that humanity is (or ought to be) divided into nations, and that nation...
NATO
Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
NATOIntroductionThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance of North American and European democratic states founded by the N...
NATO, Europe, and Russia: Security Issues and the Border Regions
Hall Gardner
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
NATO, Europe, and Russia: Security Issues and the Border Regions Introduction The enlargements of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) an...
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