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
What role do the limits of international humanitarian law still play for military force? The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza have recently raised doubts as to whether international law is still relevant for international politics. This article shows...
This contribution introduces a memorial symposium for Helga Haftendorn, who passed away on November 6, 2023, at the age of 90. It honors her life and work as a pioneer of research in International Relations and security policy in Germany, as well as...
The essay pays tribute to Helga Haftendorn's contribution to the professionalization of the discipline of international relations and, in particular, security policy research through her consistently theory-conscious and theory-oriented research and...
Helga Haftendorn is one of the most influential figures in German postwar International Relations. Her contributions to foreign policy analysis in general and to German foreign and security policy in particular have had a significant impact on...
Given the premises of the civilian-power literature on German foreign policy, the observation is puzzling that Germany has tried to push through its unilateral preferences regarding salient foreign economic issues vis-à-vis Russia and China despite...
This paper is an interdependence theory-based analysis of burden-sharing in NATO. It demonstrates how the recent political focus on the two or five percent of GDP defense expenditure goals deviate from the historically grown more complex...
After Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons, intending to prevent other states from helping Ukraine to defend itself. U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent statements...
As a characteristic of increasing politicization, contestation is ubiquitous in today's era of political turmoil and multiple crises unfolding both at the national and international levels. While contestation is in itself a normal part of politics,...
This article examines the complex relationship between contestation and democracy using conspiracist ideologies as an example. While contestation is still a somewhat elusive concept in democratic theory, it is nevertheless a tangible and essential...
Research on contestation, grounded in a relational ontology, situates the inherent contentiousness of normative practices at the site of the social, offering a framework for analyzing the construction of social reality. Yet the connections between...
Contestation of international orders has increased noticeably in recent years. Driven by a diffuse sense of permanent crisis, international institutions are grappling to find strategies to deal with these challenges productively. While research on...
Affects and emotions shape political discourses and practices not only by structuring collective identities and contributing to group and state decision-making but also as highly contested objects themselves. The fire at the Moria refugee camp in...