Webpages tagged with «international relations»

Represented by Helene Sjursen and Johanne D. Saltnes, ARENA contributes to a research network that aims to improve our understanding of EU foreign policy in times of major change, and to develop strategies to help practitioners make the EU more resilient.

How and to what extent is traditional inter-state diplomacy challenged by the evolving of Europe? This paper assesses the changing role of national diplomats by way of novel institutionalist insights.

ARENA Working Paper 06/2003 (pdf)

Jozef Batora

Taking a broader view of changes in the international structure during the 1990s, this paper makes the observation that traditional security policies have changed - due to (i) the end of the Cold War and (ii) the strengthening of international institutions. However, varying openness to change makes this process less clear-cut in some countries than in others.

ARENA Working Paper 04/2001 (html)

Helene Sjursen

This papers applies role conceptions as conceptual device to show how differing national identities in Britain, Germany and France lead to contrasting foreign policies in a post-Cold-War setting.

ARENA Working Paper 08/1999 (html)

Lisbeth Aggestam

This paper attempts to conceptualize the role of the state in a post-national world by applying a relational understanding of sovereignty and authority.

ARENA Working Paper 35/1999 (html)

Michael Zürn