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
Cooperation in the United Nations Security Council is becoming increasingly difficult due to global political tensions. This is also reflected in the failure to pass resolutions. But what drives the voting behavior of countries in the UN Security...
The article offers a feminist contribution on violence and order in patriarchal societies, problematising how gender-insensitive analyses overlook important forms of violence and thus fail to fully understand both causes and dynamics of armed...
In the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed in February 2022 a turning point – Zeitenwende – of German foreign policy. However, geopolitical challenges and the debate about a new German foreign policy date back to...
The crisis phenomena of recent decades are characterised by substantive overlaps, concurrences, normative ambiguities and unclear perspectives for addressing. As they demonstrate, crises are also normative crises. Since pluralisation and the...
The COVID-19 crisis is also a crisis of norms. While the role of norms addressing individual behavior or the societal level in this pandemic has already attracted scholarly attention, this article analyzes the behavior of states from a specific...
The increasing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of politically relevant decision-making leads to new questions regarding the role of norms. Existing norm research offers important, diversified concepts, particularly on the...
This contribution to the forum argues that norm research would profit from a rationalist perspective, particularly with regard to the strategic and instrumental use of norms. The article develops the concept of ‘norm-washing’ – the...
For some years now, norms research has been more intensively concerned with complex relationships between norms. Against this background, the article argues that the concept of norm collisions is a useful as well as necessary extension of the...
The contribution reflects on recent proposals for a multidimensional perspective on norm dynamics and discusses their added value concerningthe concept of norm clusters, which is situated as a meso-level between individual norms as the basic unit...
Liberal norms such as human rights have long been the focus of constructivist norm research, but feminist, post- and de-colonial approaches have reconstructed them as ambivalent: The revelation of both emancipatory potential and principled exclusion...
Reflexivity matters, both in relation to oneself as a researcher and in relation to one’s own scientific-theoretical basic assumptions. Reflexivity is a prerequisite for successful communication within research fields, but it is not yet the status...
Research on international norm dynamics faces the challenge of analytically capturing the interpretations of many different actors in order to be able to account for the complexity, plurality, and changing perspectives in global politics. Recent...