Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB) is the flagship journal of the German International Relations community. According to a poll amongst German political scientists across various sub-fields conducted in 2009 it is also considered the best German-language journal in Political Science at large. ZIB publishes articles that make original as well as theoretically and methodically reflected contributions to the study of international relations. The thematic spectrum includes the entire range of IR, including IR theory, foreign policy analysis, international institutions, peace and conflict resolution, security policy, European integration, North-South relations, development policy, and international economic relations. The high quality of articles that are published in ZIB is ensured through double blind peer review. ZIB was the first journal in German Political Science to introduce such a process. Since its founding in 1994 ZIB has greatly contributed to the professionalization of the German IR-community and can be considered a key source for thematic stimuli on theoretical, methodological and empirical levels at the edge of contemporary IR research. Website: www.zib.nomos.de
Social media have both negative (escalating, conflict-stabilizing) and positive (transformative, de-escalating) effects with regard to peacebuilding, an argument that has been widely established in IR and Peace and Conflict Studies. However, the...
Cases of contestation and de-/legitimation are not only omnipresent in research on the international order and multilateralism. They are also prominently used as concepts in international relations. However, two different research camps deal with...
Has peace become obsolete as a guiding concept in the discipline of International Relations (IR)? This is the guiding question of this introduction: While research into the causes of war and, above all, Strategic Studies continue to flourish in the...
Peace is too complex to be researched in a single academic discipline, not to mention to be depicted in a single one of its theories. IB can also contribute to multidisciplinary research into peace. However, it has largely lost sight of it in its...
This contribution shows that peace is a critical concept in parallel to the concept of emancipation in critical theory. Such concepts work as regulative ideals and cannot offer solutions to practical problems. Alas, these principles of critical...
This contribution is based on the unequivocal normative content of „peace“ in public discourse and at the same time illustrates the context dependency of references to peace. The currently observable "war effects" on peace motivate to take an...
In peace and conflict research, processual understandings function as alternatives to too narrow and too broad concepts of peace. Instead of understanding peace as a substantial condition, for example defined by the absence of violence or the...
The establishment of International Relations as a field of study in part responded to the experience of World War One. Its consolidation and differentiation after World War Two went hand in hand with the entanglement of the incipient discipline with...